Wireless smart bandage makes short work of chronic wounds
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
A Stanford University research team has created a smart bandage made of a thin, flexible printed circuit and a wireless power source that provides electrical stimulation to injured tissue.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, January 25
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 25, 2023
Toolkit provides clinical resources for COVID vaccination and therapeutics in PALTC organizations … Assistive program helps primary care docs with diagnoses of skin conditions … HHS report: Medicare...
Nursing homes’ lawsuit fighting beds-per-room limit given the OK
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2023
Thirty-one nursing home providers have cleared a major hurdle in their efforts to block a state rule limiting capacity to two residents per room.
Clinical briefs for Monday, Dec. 12
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 12, 2022
With repeal of Pentagon’s vaccine mandate, will CMS mandate remain a sure thing? … Hospital beds are 80% full nationwide, only 6% due to COVID … AHCA urges nursing homes to get involved in ’game-changing’...
Healing protein found in developing babies tapped for wound care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2022
A healing protein that is active in fetuses, but largely inactive in adults and absent in diabetic adults, could be the key to improving treatment of diabetic wounds.
Ask the expert: How serious are diabetic wounds?
By
Fatima Naqvi, MD
Nov 11, 2022
Q: Why should diabetic wounds be taken more seriously than non-diabetic wounds?
Workforce issues loom over wound care
By
John Hall
Nov 11, 2022
Documented lapses in-house care and a decline in offsite wound treatment have amplified festering wound care problems.
Providers ‘on notice’ as CMS pressures states to shift Medicaid pay metrics
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 10, 2022
Providers still struggling to accurately capture diagnoses that drive federal reimbursement will be doubly left behind as more states start to use Patient Driven Payment Model-like systems to determine...
WHO turns attention to fungal infections as drug resistance builds
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 26, 2022
The World Health Organization has created a first-ever priority list of fungi that it says pose the greatest emerging threats to public health.
Labor proposal pushes employers on classification of hourly workers
By
Joe Bush
Oct 11, 2022
A proposed rule issued Tuesday by the US Department of Labor would more strictly limit how healthcare and other employers classify workers paid on an hourly basis.