EHR score can predict an older adult’s critical illness during primary care visit
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 12, 2024
A new risk assessment model delivered over electronic health records worked well to predict an older adult’s critical illness within a year of a primary care visit.
In trial, researchers test EHR alerts to lower harmful screenings, overtreatment in seniors
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 15, 2024
Researchers devised a new way to ensure that older adults aren’t being overtreated or tested needlessly via unnecessary screenings.
Business briefs, Feb. 8
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2024
PointClickCare, MatrixCare named Best in Klas 2024 … Chicago CCRC residents to lose entrance fee refunds to subsidize provider’s debt … LeadingAge urges Congress to ‘robustly’ fund affordable...
Long-term care tech giants PointClickCare and MatrixCare win big again as Best in KLAS 2024 award winners...
By
Aaron Dorman
Feb 07, 2024
PointClickCare was one of several tech giants who serve the long-term care industry that were honored with Best in KLAS 2024 awards.
Senior care provider Tranzion will add MatrixCare’s EHR services, companies announce
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 31, 2024
NHC’s 90-plus assisted living communities and nursing homes will be retrofitted with new EHR tools, thanks to a new partnership with MatrixCare.
‘Sky is the limit’ for health information networks’ SNF insights
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2024
An expanding health information exchange connecting 71 hospitals and nearly 600 post-acute providers in New Jersey is exceeding expectations.
HHS: Lack of incentives bar home health, hospice providers from creating interoperable solutions
By
Adam Healy
Jan 19, 2024
LTPAC organizations have not been incentivized to use interoperable technology in the same way as other healthcare providers, HHS has found.
PointClickCare acquires fellow EHR player American HealthTech
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 17, 2024
PointClickCare, already long-term care’s largest health records and technology platform, has expanded its footprint by acquiring American HealthTech, the companies announced Wednesday morning.
Mediware Information Systems acquires BlueStrata EHR
Aug 02, 2018
Mediware Information Systems has acquired BlueStrata EHR, the companies announced Wednesday.
Only half of assisted living communities with EHRs exchange health information with pharmacies
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 27, 2018
Assisted living communities using EHRs for health information exchange most often communicate with pharmacies compared with other settings, according to newly released data. Even then, however, only half...