Not only do walking up stairs, moving around the house, and driving to a doctor’s office get more difficult as we age, but they also become more dangerous as our risk of falling increases.
According…
Background: A distal radius fracture (DRF) is a common initial fragility fracture among women in their early postmenopausal period, which is associated with an increased risk of subsequent fractures. Gait assessments are valuable for…
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Christine Gall, Chief Nursing Officer at Collette Health What You Should Know: – Collette Health, a provider of virtual patient observation solutions appoints Christine Gall DrPH, MS, BSN, as Chief Nursing Officer. – As…
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HIMSS24 is the perfect place to see the full spectrum of healthcare information technologies. It’s also the perfect place to realize there must be a way for all these technologies to play together.Interoperability is…
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Philips issues a recall for its BrightView imaging systems due to a critical component failure, posing risks of injury or death. The FDA classifies the recall as Class I, indicating severe consequences. The affected…
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Atrium Health’s innovative approach to fall prevention, driven by advanced monitoring technology and strategic collaborations, has yielded significant reductions in fall rates and associated costs. By overcoming previous limitations in data collection and analysis,…
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Atrium Health’s approach to fall prevention used to be inadequate, and was not properly protecting its hospital patients’ safety.THE PROBLEM
The health system’s previous falls prevention technology lacked the discreteness required to obtain specific patient…
In the face of high addiction rates, mounting mental health crises, and daily reports of overdoses and suicides in the United States, a community triage center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has come up…
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Cherish Serenity sits in the home and is able to detect falls across multiple rooms.
In 2020, when Cherish Health Founder and CEO Sumit Nagpal set out to create Cherish Serenity, a health and safety…
The following is a guest article by Chris Bowen, Founder and CISO at ClearDATA
The recent Cybersecurity concept paper from HHS, while a gesture towards progress, falls critically short of what’s imperative in today’s climate….
