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| As health information technology (HIT) has become more prevalent in long term care settings across the country, adminis- trators and clinicians have access to more information than ever before. However, they now face the challenge of sorting through the vast volumes of data available to them and determining how to use them to enhance quality. As
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| By Ken Terry | January 7, 2011 [Federal Money]Long-term care is the stepchild of the healthcare industry. So it’s not surprising that none of the $27 billion extended by the federal government for health information technology is available to nursing homes and other LTC facilities. The unexpected consequence, though, is that if LTC doesn’t keep
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| by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [Sensors]In this Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 photo, Nippon Telegraph and Telegram Corp. Communications Science Laboratories staff imitates to brush his teeth during a demonstration of a wearable sensor attached to a wristwatch-like device during the NTT Research and Development Forum in Tokyo. Japan's top telecom company NTT says
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| Published: Tuesday, March 01, 2011, 7:00 AM Updated: Tuesday, March 01, 2011, 7:10 PM By Eunice Lee/The Star-Ledger [Younger Residents]NEWARK — Kevin Johnson sized up his next shot and eased his way around the pool table, leaving his walker by the wall at New Community Extended Care Center in Newark last week. A few years ago, the former
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| Posted on: 3.1.2011 2:44:43 PM Posted by Patricia Sheehan, Editor-in-Chief With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Congress mandated nursing home compliance above and beyond the annual surveys conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Effective 2013, a mandatory compliance and ethics program will be
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| If you work in a nursing home with home health care or elder care you will know how much red tape [Hands] is involved. All this red tape and checks are supposed to ensure that the people who are subject to the care by such workers are afforded the best possible treatment with the maximum number of safeguards. New data suggests that many workers in
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