Healthcare technology

Front Porch puts mHealth medication management on front burner

May 17, 2013     Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing and CareSpeak Communications develop a patient-centric medications reminder service to improve seniors' medication compliance.

LTPAC information technology conference melds care quality & business impact

May 13, 2013     John F. Derr, RPh
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June's LTPAC HIT Summit will mark the annual long-term and post-acute care meeting of the minds of technology and longitudinal care coordination.

Qualcomm, HealthyCircles team up for care-coordination data

May 10, 2013     Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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A telecom giant and a care-coordination software company join forces to improve care transitions and data capture at home.

Long-term care is slow to adopt health information technology

April 23, 2013     Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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It’s time for long-term care to stop resisting the use of health information technology and embrace it to provide better care for residents, according to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.

Parkinson's disease organizations unite to raise awareness of the need to participate in clinical trials

April 15, 2013     Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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Clinical trials serve a crucial role in bringing new medications and treatments to the people who suffer from various disease. But it takes people willing to take the time to participate. Recently, 16 international organizations have banded together to encourage participation in Parkinson's disease trials.

Silent locks & access control in LTC

April 8, 2013     Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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As LTC design spaces become more “open,” access control becomes a much more important part of LTC facility strategy. 

Technology reaches further into long-term and post-acute care policy

April 5, 2013     John F. Derr, RPh
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Health information technology and long-term care, once rarely found in the same conversation, are now topics of discussion within multiple policy-making bodies and workgroups.

2% Medicare payment reductions begin today

April 2, 2013     Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The waiting is over. No resolution to the budget crisis means that sequestration begins—today. Long-term care facilities will feel the effects upfront, but a quieter casuality might be healthcare's information technology and data-sharing initiatives.

Aging baby boomers and Blue Ocean opportunities

April 2, 2013     Judah L. Ronch, PhD
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Expect changes as the Baby Boom generation ages. As in their youth, they will do things differently from their parents and create  their own concepts of elderhood.

Researchers develop drug that kills cancer tumors in mice

April 1, 2013     Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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One drug that has been shown to shrink tumors is being readied for human safety testing.

Self-management of chronic diseases can keep seniors healthy

March 27, 2013     Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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A new program of self-management of chronic conditions is designed to provide seniors with the tools to take charge of their conditions to enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

'Super cane' melds mobility and monitoring

March 27, 2013     Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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This is definitely not your grandfather’s cane—yet.

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