It is the people around great technology who make the “magic” happen says Jon Pickering – a belief that’s shaped his company’s rebranding. By Jennifer TruelandJon Pickering admits he can be an emotional guy…
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John Showalter, MD, Chief Product Officer at Linus HealthThe FDA’s recent accelerated approval of Leqembi was welcome news across the Alzheimer’s community. However, few health systems, medical practices, or providers are prepared for the…
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Aptinyx’s approach of treating neurological disorders by targeting a key receptor in the brain has fallen short again, this time in Parkinson’s disease. With its third clinical trial failure in less than a year,…
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Two dynamic analytics models developed at Johns Hopkins University predicted delirium-prone patients when tested on two datasets drawn from 100,000 stays at a Boston hospital’s intensive care unit, according to new research.WHY IT MATTERS
Delirium – sudden bouts of confusion, inattention, paranoia, agitation and hallucinations – can put patients at higher risk of prolonged hospitalization, future dementia and death. By forecasting delirium, alerted clinicians could apply countermeasures that can mitigate adverse outcomes, according to the premise of artificial intelligence research published in Anesthesiology.
“For a lot of these physiological transitions, we think that there are early warning signs that may not be obvious…
Research shows that apathy is a significant challenge for people living with dementia. They lose the ability to take initiative, which has an enormous effect on their emotional and physical wellbeing. This makes the disorder much harder to treat.THE PROBLEM
Andrus on Hudson, based in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, serves and cares for individuals (“residents,” to reflect the environment in which they receive care) who have various types of dementia. One of the primary challenges caregivers and residents face are negative behaviors that occur when there are downtimes during the day and/or the sundown window.
These negative behaviors include agitation and wandering. While AOH uses…
Not-for-profit aged care service provider HammondCare has tapped German enterprise monitoring solutions provider Paessler to proactively monitor its IT infrastructure nationwide.With more than 5,100 dedicated staff and volunteers, HammondCare delivers aged care, dementia care and palliative care to around 34,000 clients in over 92 service locations across Australia.
It has rolled out the Paessler PRTG, a round-the-clock network monitoring software, across its 76 care facilities.
WHY IT MATTERS
“HammondCare’s primary objective in implementing the Paessler PRTG monitoring platform was to provide our team with proactive insights and alerts to minimise the regular incidents that were occurring previously,” infrastructure and cloud manager Kasun Haputhanthri said.
Since deploying…
