Nursing facilities have evolved from rest homes to medical facilities over the last 20 years. Patients are sicker, older, have more medical comorbidities, and are frailer. They require more assistance with activities associated with daily living and have much greater rates of cognitive impairment. People over 85 are the most rapidly expanding demographic and the elderly segment of the American population is expected to double in 2030 from 2010. Even with a shift to providing higher-intensity
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RedDress Donates FDA-Cleared Wound Care Solution to Aid Injured Ukrainians
What You Should Know: - RedDress, a Florida-based Israeli medical company is shipping revolutionary blood-clotting wound care systems to Ukraine to help with serious injuries and severe trauma wounds. - RedDress began shipments of 400 of their ActiGraft systems this week to multiple hospitals in Ukraine to help treat civilian casualties as a result of the indiscriminate Russian attacks. ActiGraft: Recreating the
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Senior Care More Human
When it comes to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in particular and long-term care in general, a human-centered and empathetic approach is not only necessary, it's obligatory. Putting the needs, constraints, and perspectives of patients first enhances the level of care we're able to provide. Perhaps ironically, it is the integration and adaptation of artificial intelligence (AI) that has demonstrated the biggest potential in improving empathy and compassion in the industry. It may
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Net Health Acquires Wound Care Platform Tissue Analytics
What You Should Know: - Net Health acquires wound care platform Tissue Analytics to expand Net Health’s leadership position in the wound care market. - Tissue Analytics, Inc. deploys its wound management software via industry-leading SMART on FHIR integrations with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others. - Net Health plans to integrate Tissue Analytics app will be integrated with their WoundExpert EHR solution to add key capabilities for use within hospital outpatient
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Sutter Health, Lyft Partner to Improve Access to Care for Patients & Staff
- Sutter Health and Lyft announced a collaboration to provide patients and staff with improved access to care that will optimize the patient/provider experience. - Starting today, Sutter hospitals and care centers around Northern California will have the option to start implementing customized, individual transportation programs, and address social determinants of health. Not-for-profit network Sutter Health and transportation network company Lyft today announced a collaboration to power the
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7 Best Practices to Improve Professional Fee Revenue Cycle for Better ED Bottom Lines
Most healthcare organizations partner with physician services groups for niche coverage. While outsourced medical services are available across all specialties, common areas for external physician support include anesthesia, radiology, wound care, and emergency medicine. However, when outsourced physician services are used, challenges to ensure accurate reimbursement for both components of care—the hospital portion and the physician’s professional fee—increase.
Snafus are largely attributable
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Cedars-Sinai Research: Patients Using On-Demand VR Reduces Pain Scores
Cedars-Sinai researchers reveal hospitalized patients on-demand use of virtual reality (VR) resulted in statistically significant improvements in pain
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. A new study led by Cedars-Sinai's Health Service Research, published in PLOS|ONE, the Public Library of Science, demonstrates the effectiveness of using therapeutic virtual reality (VR) to
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Net Health Acquires Post-Acute Care EHR Provider Optima Healthcare Solutions
Net Health, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for specialized outpatient care, today announced it has acquired cloud-based post-acute care EHR provider Optima Healthcare Solutions. Optima post-acute care EHR platform supports contract therapy companies, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, outpatient therapy clinics, home health therapy providers and hospice organizations.Acquisition Benefits for Net HealthOnce the acquisition closes, the combined company will serve
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Misonix Acquires Regenerative Wound Healing Product Theraskin for $97M
Misonix, Inc., a provider
of minimally invasive therapeutic ultrasonic medical devices announced it has
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
Solsys Medical, LLC, a privately
held regenerative medical company in an all-stock transaction valued at
approximately $97 million. The acquisition of Solsys substantially broadens
Misonix’s addressable market through wound care solutions that are complementary
to its existing products. Theraskin:
Real Skin from One Human to Another Solsys
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Tissue Analytics Lands $5M for EHR-Integrated Mobile Wound Care Platform
Tissue Analytics, a Baltimore, MD-based digital health startup which provides simple, easy-to-use solutions to increase efficiency and accuracy for wound and skin tracking, has announced a $5M Series A round. The round was led by DigiTx Partners with participation from Tencent, Dreamit, Molnlycke Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, and Penn Medicine.The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support the expansion of the sales team in their recently opened Kansas City office and
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