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CMS Announces New Name for EHR Programs and ACI Category

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
April 26, 2018
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an overhaul and streamlining effort to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs for hospitals as well as for the Advancing Care Information performance category...

Congress Focusing on Opioids

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medication, Opioids, Practitioners
April 26, 2018
This week House and Senate committees focused on opioid legislation packages. The Senate health committee voted unanimously in favor of a package, which includes 40 bills from 38 senators. The health committee's legislation, Opioid Crisis Response...

Update of the 6-Item Brief Geriatric Assessment Screening Tool of Older Inpatients at Risk for Long Length of Hospital Stay: Results From a Prospective and Observational Cohort Study

JAMDA
April 26, 2018
Chronic multimorbidities and disabilities characterize older inpatients, who are the fastest-increasing group of patients admitted to hospitals.1 Because hospitals are configured for disease-oriented and episodic model rather than chronic...

Going Beyond the Mortality: The Forgotten Quality of Life in the Very Elderly

JAMDA
April 26, 2018
We read with great interest the article by Alegre et al,1 who reported the prognostic impact of frailty measured by the Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, & Loss of Weight (FRAIL) scale in very elderly patients with acute coronary...

Dr. Peter Jaggard discusses the new ACP Product Series

Spotlight
Advance Care Planning, Patient Centered
April 25, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traditional advance directives like the living will and power of attorney express patient choices in general terms for their medical care. More recent directives, such as physician order for life-sustaining...

Social Frailty Has a Stronger Impact on the Onset of Depressive Symptoms than Physical Frailty or Cognitive Impairment: A 4-Year Follow-up Longitudinal Cohort Study

JAMDA
April 24, 2018
To examine the association between each type of frailty status and the incidence rate of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults.

Social Frailty Has a Stronger Impact on the Onset of Depressive Symptoms than Physical Frailty or Cognitive Impairment: A 4-Year Follow-up Longitudinal Cohort Study

JAMDA
April 24, 2018
To examine the association between each type of frailty status and the incidence rate of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults.

Readmission Patterns Over 90-Day Episodes of Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Post-acute Care

JAMDA
April 21, 2018
Examine readmission patterns over 90-day episodes of care in persons discharged from hospitals to post-acute settings.

Readmission Patterns Over 90-Day Episodes of Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Post-acute Care

JAMDA
April 21, 2018
Examine readmission patterns over 90-day episodes of care in persons discharged from hospitals to post-acute settings.

April 20, 2018

Weekly Roundup
April 20, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Meet First NP to Serve on Society Board: Alice Bonner It seems only fitting that Alice Bonner, PhD, APRN, GNP, Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs in Massachusetts, is the first nurse...