On June 15, 2017, LeadingAge CAST released an updated Electronic Health Records (EHR) Selection Portfolio that includes a new case study. The case study demonstrates how a senior living provider implemented EHR technology and reaped the benefits, such as increased revenue, better quality of care, decreased turnover, and lower costs.
Waymo has launched the first public trial of its self-driving cars, in Phoenix, AZ. The pilot seeks local participants who will ride in Waymo’s cars and provide feedback on the experience. Watch a video about the pilot.
Is your organization doing enough to protect its data? Find out with this guest article by Larry Jorgensen, who is a CAST Commissioner and Vice President and Chief Information Officer at LeadingAge and CAST Member Ecumen.
Reimbursement woes are limiting telehealth use and remote patient monitoring among Medicare beneficiaries of Medicare and other federal programs, says a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
LeadingAge CAST has updated its Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Selection Tool. The updated tool includes five new telehealth products/vendors in the Selection Matrix and Online Selection Tool and two new case studies that show how telehealth:
Are you familiar with the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) and how it can benefit you?
The Avamere Family of Companies, a group of independent health care providers dedicated to seniors, is piloting IBM’s Watson to explore its ability to capture resident data and better inform and better shape care delivery.
Several LeadingAge members are providing their technology to be part of a new movement in senior living, the center for healthy living (CHL). A CHL is a new building typology that bridges the gap between senior living and health care, supporting seniors’ mind, body, and spirit.
A newly released LeadingAge/CAST case study reveals how a health system scaled up its tailored ambulatory program while receiving 98% patient satisfaction scores and reducing hospital readmissions.
A recent LeadingAge/CAST case study shows how a software as a service (SaaS)-based data analytics system helped a LeadingAge member life plan community raise its caregiving, compliance, and quality measures to laudable new levels.