article thumbnail

Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Nursing 118
article thumbnail

What if the School Nurse is Busy?

Insulin Nation

Ray Duckler, a columnist at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, wrote a piece on November 29 about Luc Gautreaux, a seven-year-old who can’t get anyone at his school in the Winnipesaukee region to help him with his diabetes self-care – excepting the school nurse, whom Luc has to go in to see several times a day.

Nursing 71
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What if the School Nurse is Busy?

Insulin Nation

Ray Duckler, a columnist at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, wrote a piece on November 29 about Luc Gautreaux, a seven-year-old who can’t get anyone at his school in the Winnipesaukee region to help him with his diabetes self-care – excepting the school nurse, whom Luc has to go in to see several times a day.

Nursing 51
article thumbnail

Five new technologies from LeadingAge Philadelphia 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As it was at first encounter in 2009, it is an association of faith-based and non-profit senior living and aging-related services. From the 2016 event, attended by 6500, attendance had shrunk from 2009’s attending 9000. A small percent live in nursing homes.

Nursing 125
article thumbnail

There’s More to Participatory Medicine than Doctors and Patients

Society for Participatory Medicine

The second group is the providers of care which has been limited to physicians and nurses. In addition to the physicians and nurses, the provider group should include everyone else who works in the healthcare organizations. When I went to the first team meeting, the people in the room were all physician and nurse leaders.

Nursing 87
article thumbnail

Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

The center column illustrates that care providers – doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, the parking lot attendants and cafeteria staff — all communicate signals of trust. Thus, Press Ganey asserts, “patients’ trust in their health care is intertwined with caregivers’ trust in their organizations.”

article thumbnail

Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Help Yelp Serve Families with Information about Nursing Homes. No doubt you know someone who was baffled at how a terrible nursing home gets a 4 or 5 star rating from CMS’s Five Star Rating System , while a good one can appear to have a lower rating, applied from an inspection before management overhaul several years earlier.

Nursing 81