Emily Potts
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Five Fall Prevention Strategies For Your Community
Each year, approximately three million older adults are treated in emergency departments for fall related injuries and 800,000 are hospitalized with hip fractures or head..
AI Can Lessen the Burden for LTC Admins & Nurses
McKnight’s recently released its 2021 Mood of the Market survey results, which polled 627 long-term care administrators and nurse managers on the state of their profession. Not..
Two VirtuSense Clients Named Finalists in McKnight's Tech Awards
McKnight’s Tech Awards finalists have been announced and two VirtuSense clients have been named finalists for 2021 Innovator of the Year!
Fall Detection is NOT Fall Prevention
Many fall “prevention” companies aren’t actually preventing falls at all, but rather notifying caregivers after a resident is already on the floor. There’s a big difference..
Life Lessons from VirtuSense CMO, Dr. Tom Hale
It goes without saying (but I’m saying it anyway), we are fortunate at VirtuSense to have a great leadership team. Our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tom Hale, is no exception. He’s..
10 Questions to Ask Before Working With a Fall Prevention Company
Fall prevention solutions in long-term care are costly, and often require bulky equipment, costly infrastructure upgrades, and extra staffing to monitor or manage the technology,..
How AI Can Augment an Already-Stressed Nursing Workforce
According to the American Nurses Association, there will be significantly more registered nursing positions available by 2022 than any other profession—more than 100,000 per year...
Assessing Parkinson’s Patients with VSTBalance
Community Healthcare System’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders program takes a multidisciplinary approach to help patients regain their quality of life. “We have a..
Music Therapy for Older Adults
Music, for the most part, brings out the best in people. Certain songs trigger long-forgotten memories that recall emotions of joy, sadness, love, and empathy. For this reason,..
Deepak Gaddipati on Innovations for Aging Well
On this episode of Innovations for Aging Well, Deepak Gaddipati, CTO of VirtuSense Technologies, discusses an innovative suite of products using artificial intelligence and data..
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