Healthcare data breach affects more than 4.2 million people
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2023
More than 4.2 million people were affected by a July 2022 healthcare data breach at Independent Living Systems, the Miami-based vendor of clinical and third-party administrative services to managed care...
Change Healthcare starts to return platform services following cyberattack, but crisis ‘could reverberate...
By
Aaron Dorman
Mar 18, 2024
As promised, Change Healthcare on Friday entered a new stage of recovery from a major cyberattack which affected long-term care providers.
More than 80% of nursing homes do not meet the updated requirements in the final staffing mandate from CMS.
A.G. Rhodes openly sharing the path to the future of long-term care via its $37.5M ‘household’ renovation
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 20, 2024
After nearly a decade of planning, fundraising and a $37.5 million construction and renovation project, Atlanta-based provider AG Rhodes officially opened its new 72-bed “household-model” building...
Alzheimer’s care, quality of life improve with innovative immersion room
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 05, 2024
A creative new room at a Long Island, NY, nursing home may serve as a model for improving the quality of Alzheimer’s care.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t beat doctors in diagnosing medical issues based on images, study reveals
By
Kristen Fischer
Jul 26, 2024
An artificial intelligence model solved quiz questions testing doctors’ abilities to diagnose conditions based on images and text summaries accurately. However, it made mistakes when trying to describe...
Providers, patients would benefit from hospice telehealth extension, doc offers
By
Rachael Zimlich
Jul 31, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a lot of changes in healthcare, and not all were bad. In the years since the coronavirus forced worldwide lockdowns and limited access to care, the healthcare industry has...
‘Don’t panic — prepare,’ experts urge in ‘new era’ of health data
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 01, 2024
Long-term care operators who may think that more complex health data gathering will be important only at the end of this decade, or that it can somehow be evaded altogether, are in for a rude awakening.
CMS prods hospitals to improve discharge info for SNFs, home health
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 09, 2023
Hospitals’ shortcomings in providing post-acute care providers with adequate discharge information prompted federal regulators to issue a special memo Tuesday.
Long-term care docs warn why better oversight of diagnostic testing is needed
By
John Roszkowski
Aug 06, 2024
Judicious use of testing and pharmacy orders is more critical than ever, a pair of experts in senior care and diagnostic testing emphasized.