Excel Health has announced availability of its business intelligence solution for skilled nursing facilities. The company analyzed more than 1.25 billion claims across the care continuum to develop...
Locus Health completes $4M in funding
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 04, 2016
Locus Health, which makes remote patient care management programs, completed a $4 million funding round at the end of January. Its software is connected with services that allow clinicians to interact...
NQF endorses rehospitalization system
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 01, 2015
The National Quality Forum has endorsed the PointRight® Pro 30™ rehospitalization measure, the company and the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living announced in January.
Roche launches onset Alzheimer’s website
Nov 01, 2011
To commemorate World Alzheimer’s Day, Roche has launched the first available website dedicated to early-stage (prodromal) Alzheimer’s disease, at EarlySymptomsAlzehimers.com.
Practitioner tool updated for mobile use
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 05, 2015
PointClickCare released its latest version of an ePrescribing and Physician Encounters line at the AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care conference in March.
Device-free fall detection system may benefit seniors
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 01, 2013
A new fall detection system may be part of an “aging-in-place” solution for seniors.
UKG, ADP top provider-used timekeeping, payroll services
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 01, 2022
Approximately one-third of long-term care operators responding to a recent survey indicated they outsource their timekeeping and payroll services, whereas 67% of providers still do not, according to specialty...
Stroke or dizziness? Bedside test can tell
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2013
A bedside device that measures eye movements could become a standard way of determining if extreme dizziness is being caused by a stroke, researchers say.
Groups blast new IRS device tax rules
By
John O'Connor
Jan 02, 2013
Internal Revenue Service guidance released in December spells out how a 2.3% excise tax on medical devices would be carried out.
Streamlined order handling system makes debut at AHCA
By
McKnight's Staff
Nov 01, 2012
American HealthTech unveiled a redesigned order management system at the American Health Care Association show in Tampa, FL.