Technology Archive

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday an initiative to improve technological connectivity between Medicaid providers. Long-term care and other sectors that have been slower to adopt emerging technologies will receive funding to help “enhance the sustainability of health information exchanges” ...Read More

According to a January Senior Housing News article, real estate investors and trusts are “avidly on the hunt” for senior housing assets in 2016. This “insatiable demand,” however, is an appetite not only for scale but for high-quality portfolios. Good operators often bring that ...Read More

In a recent infographic and downloadable report, the AARP predicts a cumulative market value of $279 billion in 6 different areas of elder care between 2016 and 2020. They anticipate a gradual shift to home care, fair pay initiatives in Congress for home care ...Read More

McKnight’s recently interviewed three relatively new senior living association executives about their main agenda items going into 2016. James Balda, President and CEO of Argentum (formerly ALFA), NCAL Executive Director Scott Tittle, and LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan all weighed in on established ...Read More

Webinars can be a great way to learn a lot in a short amount of time. They’re more interactive than white papers, and they often include downloadable slides that you can reference and share with your staff. Here are 3 upcoming webinars to help ...Read More

A rule finalized by CMS last week will extend and increase funding to states for modernizing Medicaid technology systems. Under the Affordable Care Act, states are required to build new Eligibility and Enrollment systems or modernize existing ones. The final rule anticipates federal net ...Read More

A Black Book survey of hospital CFOs may have implications for senior living facilities. The survey reveals that revenue cycle management (RCM) may be the largest determiner of hospital viability, which is increasingly impacted by the demands of electronic health records (EHR) and the electronic ...Read More