Security insecurity is the new normal in the COVID-19 era. With ease of transmission, the pandemic poses new risks, but innovations also are offering new opportunities.
Post-lockdowns, regulators cast an eye toward security, preparedness weak spots
By
John Hall
Dec 02, 2022
For much of 2022, lockdowns and other restrictions tamped down the usual resident security concerns in the nation’s long-term care facilities. Still, workforce shortages meant fewer vigilant eyes and...
Outdated security
By
John Hall
Aug 01, 2017
Technology is changing many aspects of senior living security. New products and services are making it easier than ever to keep residents safe.
Independent, safe
By
John Hall
Oct 17, 2019
How communities are balancing residents’ security and privacy needs.
It’s all about the data
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2016
What’s changing every facet of senior living? In a word: data.
Defying convention
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2017
Conventional wisdom holds that tech innovations are slow to take hold in senior living. Conventional wisdom is wrong.
Congress gets tough on EHR interoperability
By
John Hall
Mar 23, 2015
Providers using incompatible or uncertified electronic health record systems by the end of 2018 could face reduced Medicare reimbursements under a bill introduced Thursday in both houses of Congress.
A positive early verdict for AI in LTC, with caveats noted
By
John Hall
Jun 21, 2024
Experts say artificial intelligence tools have the potential to free staff for critical tasks and to offer deeper insights into community operations.
Focus On briefs: Resident security
Jun 06, 2022
HealthPRO Heritage adds enterprise partnership service; Dementia residents in LTC suffered outsized pandemic mortality spikes; AI could shape future rehab therapy
Tech: Only just begun
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2017
Virtually every aspect of senior living is now being affected by tech innovation — and it appears things are just getting started.