Enhance care for complex patients with information from Aug. 3 webinar
Skilled nursing professionals can tune in Aug. 3 as two post-acute clinical care leaders reveal key strategies for enhancing higher-needs care.
Telemedicine
Remote monitoring rule could ultimately drive down healthcare costs
Despite discovering the myriad benefits of remote monitoring over the past year due to the necessity of COVID-19, a December final rule around reimbursement severely disincentivizes providers from using them. While this initially appears foolish and out of touch with the way facilities actually use these solutions, the rule is feeding into global paradigm shifts…
Conducting rounds via telemedicine? A new framework promises to cut distractions and delays
Skilled nursing facilities were able to completely eliminate disruptions and increase clinical care time during telehealth rounding sessions under a new framework developed by California researchers.
Telemedicine a boon for LTC residents and operators during pandemic: review
Telemedicine has had measurable clinical effects on residents, including reduced emergency and hospital admissions, reductions in physical restraints, and improved vital signs, nurse-researchers have found.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, March 3
Senior living chief medical officer reflects on COVID a year into pandemic, including vaccine acceptance … NIH halts convalescent plasma trial in ED patients with mild COVID symptoms … Stroke patients cared for at hospitals with stroke telemedicine fare better … Israel sees 67% drop in need for mechanical ventilation in elderly COVID patients … UK coronavirus vaccinations more than 80% effective in preventing hospitalization in elderly
Staff buy-in key to reducing ED visits with telemedicine, senior living study finds
An attempt to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits with telemedicine triage failed when senior living healthcare providers were not on board. The findings contain lessons for for clinicians and administrators, investigators say.
Suffering on the third shift in rural post-acute care: Who’s accountable?
It is 2 a.m. at Fictitious Post-Acute Care in Rural County, USA, and all is quiet but for the 82-year-old patient in Room 15. She’s distressed and disoriented, and her nurse suspects a UTI — a condition that could likely be assessed and treated in-house. Following protocol, the nurse pages the on-call physician and waits.…
Relaxed regulations lead to spike in telehealth use, nursing homes report
Continued telehealth expansion under Medicare will be good for residents’ well-being, and may help administrators keep pace with other healthcare sectors, according to the Columbia University School of Nursing.
Curve Health announces $6M in seed funding, new CEO
Curve Health, creator of a platform combining telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange,and predictive analytics for long-term care, has wrapped a $6 million seed-funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company also announced Rob MacNaughton as its new CEO, while Timothy Peck, M.D., the company’s founding CEO, assumes the role of president and executive…
TapestryHealth expands to AL, memory care
TapestryHealth, one of the nation’s leading providers of primary care telemedicine services to the skilled nursing industry, is now offering its services to assisted living and memory care providers nationwide. “Since the pandemic began, we’ve been expanding rapidly, adding skilled nursing facilities and now assisted living and memory care communities every week,” said Chief Operating…
