An app piloted by orthopedics company Zimmer Biomet will allow patients who have hip or knee replacements to send heart rate data, steps taken and standing hours directly to their surgeons from their Apple...
Eye scan can detect signs of Alzheimer’s
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Amy Novotney
Dec 05, 2018
A new, non-invasive and inexpensive imaging procedure can see signs of Alzheimer’s disease in a matter of seconds, according to two new studies presented in October at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the...
Long-term care data is often unable to share, survey finds
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Amy Novotney
Dec 05, 2018
Interoperability is improving in healthcare, but many providers are still struggling to connect with skilled nursing facilities, according to a survey released in late October.
IT Update: November 2018
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Amy Novotney
Nov 02, 2018
» Healthcare data breaches are on the rise. Harvard University researchers analyzed all data breaches reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from January 2010 through December 2017....
TPT speeds stroke recovery, study finds
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Amy Novotney
Nov 02, 2018
Nearly 800,000 Americans suffer strokes each year. However, a novel therapy technique developed by University of Texas-Dallas researchers has been shown to double the rate of upper limb recovery in stroke...
Profile: Barbara Sepich jazzed to help seniors
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Amy Novotney
Nov 02, 2018
Barbara Sepich, President & CEO,WRC Senior Services One day when Barbara Sepich was 24 years old and first ruminating on what she wanted her career to look like, she picked up her journal and wrote herself...
Study: Portal designs must keep older adults in mind
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Amy Novotney
Nov 02, 2018
Nearly half of patient portal registrations at an Amsterdam academic medical center between 2015 and 2016 were from adults age 56 years and older, according to a study published in September in Digital...
Profile: Deborah Meade
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Amy Novotney
Oct 25, 2018
As a 12-year-old, many of Deborah Meade’s days were spent selling chips, soda and snuff tobacco to the residents at what was then Elberta Convalescent Home, a skilled nursing facility in Warner Robins,...
Telemedicine shown to help cut hospitalizations, costs
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Amy Novotney
Oct 25, 2018
An after-hours telemedicine program allowed a Brooklyn-based skilled nursing facility to avoid nearly 100 hospitalizations and save roughly $1.5 million in Medicare costs over the course of a year.