Industry Insights

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Focus: OSF Senior World 

Emily Potts — 11/23/20

Focus: OSF Senior World 

Emily Potts — 11/23/20

Keeping older adults active is key to their cognitive and physical health, but it requires perseverance from caretakers who are often overwhelmed by basic caregiving responsibilities. Fortunately, there are places...

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Three-Fourths of American Adults Aged 65+ Face Multiple Chronic Conditions

Emily Potts — 11/23/20

Three-Fourths of American Adults Aged 65+ Face Multiple Chronic Conditions

Emily Potts — 11/23/20

PRC, a leader in healthcare experience solutions, announced significant findings from its 2020 National Health Survey focused on senior citizens living in the US. According to the survey, 73% of...

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LeadingAge Pandemic Playbook

Emily Potts — 11/18/20

LeadingAge Pandemic Playbook

Emily Potts — 11/18/20

LeadingAge has released the Pandemic Playbook, which addresses the challenges and lessons learned this year as aging service providers grappled with COVID-19. “The overarching goal of the Pandemic Playbook is...

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Remote Patient Monitoring is the Future of Quality Care for Older Adults

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

Remote Patient Monitoring is the Future of Quality Care for Older Adults

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

In a study conducted by Grand View Research, the global remote patient monitoring system market size was valued at $691.5 million in 2018 and is expected to register a compound...

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The “Parallel Pandemic” Affecting Frontline Workers

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

The “Parallel Pandemic” Affecting Frontline Workers

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

As hospitals are pushed to the brink battling COVID-19, many frontline workers are dealing with a “parallel pandemic” of burnout and PTSD. A major contributing factor to this is the...

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Making Healthcare Amazing (feat. Lisa Zimmers)

Madison Schwindenhammer — 11/16/20

Making Healthcare Amazing (feat. Lisa Zimmers)

Madison Schwindenhammer — 11/16/20

In this epsiode of Making Healthcare, Lisa Zimmers talks about why she resisted becoming a nurse, why she loves working with the older population, why mentorship and empathy are important...

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Quilting Through Covid

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

Quilting Through Covid

Emily Potts — 11/16/20

Across our nation, individuals have adapted to a different way of living due to the health and safety precautions of Covid-19. At Watercrest Columbia Assisted Living and Memory Care, the...

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Real Results in Fall Prevention with VSTAlert

Madison Schwindenhammer — 11/13/20

Real Results in Fall Prevention with VSTAlert

Madison Schwindenhammer — 11/13/20

Within the past 15 months, VirtuSense has partnered with multiple post-acute locations and has implemented VSTAlert, a predictive bed monitoring platform that has seen as little as 0.5 false alarms...

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Healthcare Execs are Accelerating Plans to Adopt AI 

Emily Potts — 11/09/20

Healthcare Execs are Accelerating Plans to Adopt AI 

Emily Potts — 11/09/20

According to two recent industry surveys, artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be widely adopted in healthcare organizations in 2021. Black Book Research surveyed 540 health information management executives and revealed...

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