The Health Information Management Systems Society has released a free guide to help healthcare facilities select the best mobile apps for their work tasks and environments. Read More »
Many providers have recognized that there is a harmonizing between HIT and clinical. Clinicians are working together with their IT departments and vendors to solve clinical processes. If you have not formed this partnership within your company you should do so as you will have an earlier success in developing your HIT infrastructure. Read More »
Now that the Accountable Care Act has been deemed constitutional, HHS returns its focus to reform initiatives by announcing 10 new state grants to fund the development of insurance exchange systems. Read More »
Portable stroke monitors, video visits, diabetes testing on a cell phone… these tools and more are coming soon to a healthcare site near you, according to an emerging technology report. Read More »
Georgia Tech’s new lab for senior home health technology will test pilot products designed to help seniors remain independent for longer and to assist them in maintaining chronic conditions at home. Read More »
Consumer empowerment is on the rise, and HIT leaders explain why the LTPAC industry is looking with new eyes at another potential data source for electronic health records: the residents themselves. Read More »
Today’s morning sessions at the LTPAC HIT Summit included the “Roadmap for 2012-2014” and the meaningful use keynote by Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy Judy Murphy, RN. Both share how far we’ve come in the last two years, and how much further we need to go. Read More »
LeadingAge’s CAST debuts a free, searchable online database designed to help LTPAC facilities choose an electronic health record system. The searchable vendor database and user-friendly filters comprise the first comprehensive suite for researching EHRs based specifically on LTPAC’s needed functionality and features. Read More »
Leading LTPAC (long-term post-acute care) providers, HIT (health information technology) leaders, policy makers and vendors will convene June 18-19 in Baltimore at the LTPAC Health IT Summit to advance the issues, initiatives and policies facing LTPAC HIT. Read More »
Are grannies the new Internet marketing demographic? For the first time in history, more than half of Americans age 65 or older are surfing the information superhighway. Read More »
It is important that you understand where the healthcare market is going and commit whether or not to stay with “this is the way we always did it” philosophy. You might decide to stay with what you are doing, but be sure to do a thorough analysis of everything. When you make an upgrade in your HIT you will have to make changes and you have to know the starting point. Read More »
Most seniors are choosing cellular phones over landlines, disproving the theory that the elderly are “stuck in the past,” a Georgetown University study says. Read More »
AARP and Microsoft Corp. have teamed up to offer a free online health record to AARP’s 40+ million members. The tool gives residents and their family members a single online repository for vital health information, and it will assist those who are designated caregivers of loved ones. Read More »
The Federal Communications Commission met with mobile technology leaders, healthcare agencies, medical device companies and others to hammer out an implementation strategy to push the mHealth industry forward. Read More »
With the growing use of electronic data in healthcare to improve quality of care and lower provider costs, more long-term care organizations are making the transition from paper medication administration records (MARs) to electronic medication administration records (eMARs). Read More »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services creates the Office of Information Products and Data Analytics as part of a new initiative to collect, analyze and share healthcare information for use in care improvements. Read More »
Researchers at the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute have developed STeleR, a home telerehabilitation program that they are reporting can improve lower body physical functioning after a stroke. Read More »
The best-of-breed approach allows adoption of technology products from multiple vendors in order to gain the exact functionality and value that an organization requires. Best-of-breed products are not only powerful in capabilities, but can be more cost effective than the suite approach. Read More »
Interconnectivity and transitions of care are as important to LTPAC providers as they are good for patient coordination of care. Remember, the end objective is an integrated, dynamic, longitudinal, person-centric electronic healthcare record. Read More »
LTC providers have a dizzying number of items on their ‘to do’ list every day. And participation in social media is not high on that list. However, know this—for your residents, their families and friends, social media is increasingly more important. Read More »
The study, conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Purdue University, found telemonitoring had little effect on people age 60 years and older in significantly reducing readmissions or emergency department visits. Read More »
New payment models require payors to look closer at risk management. While traditional risk management analyzes the risk of taking a risk, we now also have to analyze the risk of not taking a risk, particularly from an information technology perspective. Read More »
The combined company, which now provides services to 4,000 post-acute care facilities in the United States and Canada, will operate under parent company VectorLearning. Read More »
A Long-Term Living webinar Thursday touched on how senior living communities can boost their presence in Google searches—and therefore attract more leads—by leveraging two powerful offerings from the search engine giant: Google Place pages and Google+. Read More »
Since my last blog there have been a number of meetings and reports that are very important to long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers and IT vendors. Here’s a review of these events and some information on how you can get involved. Read More »
All of the policy in the world likely would not stop someone from going as heinously rogue as this nursing assistant. That type of behavior considers neither rules nor decorum and should be met with zero tolerance on the part of employers. Read More »
Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health IT, eagerly addressed a study published in the March issue of Health Affairs that questioned whether investment in health information technology would lead to cost savings. Read More »
LTC activities directors are challenged to accommodate the changing programming preferences of the incoming baby boomers. These demanding residents have high expectations. Read More »
