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CMS Announces Efforts to Improve Patient Safety, Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced upcoming efforts to support better care and outcomes for nursing home residents under the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP). This three-year initiative aims to...

HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a draft strategy designed to help reduce administrative and regulatory burden on clinicians caused by the use of health information technology (health IT) such as electronic health...

Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy for MIPS-Eligible Clinicians Affected by Hurricanes Florence and Michael

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) understands that if you’re a clinician living or practicing in an area affected by Hurricane Florence and/or Hurricane Michael, you may experience difficulties collecting and submitting data for...

Electronic Health Record Adoption and Interoperability Among U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities in 2017

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
November 30, 2018
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT) recently released data on electronic health record (EHR) adoption among skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) for 2017. Some highlights from...

November 30, 2018

Weekly Roundup
November 30, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities increasingly are seeing patients with opioid addiction and other substance use disorders. Some are older adults—more like the traditional PALTC patients—and some are...

Threshold for a Reduction in Anticholinergic Burden to Decrease Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

JAMDA
November 28, 2018
A high anticholinergic burden (AB) is associated with the occurrence of behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSDs), which are frequent in dementia.

Impairments in Individual Autonomous Living Tasks and Time to Self-Care Disability in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

JAMDA
November 28, 2018
Impairments in specific tasks that are necessary for independent living may identify future self-care limitations, and the use of time-varying covariates can better capture the fluidity in functional capacity trajectories over time. The purpose of...

Target Population for Clinical Trials on Multimorbidity: Is Disease Count Enough?

JAMDA
November 28, 2018
Since the beginning of the last century, noncommunicable diseases have progressively replaced infectious diseases, emerging as the dominant health care burden. This epidemiologic transition, along with improvements in disease control, triggered an...

Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Incident Frailty: The English Longitudinal Study of Aging

JAMDA
November 28, 2018
Alcohol consumption is a common modifiable lifestyle factor. Alcohol may be a risk factor for frailty, however, there is limited evidence in the literature.

The Effects of Exercise on Falls in Older People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
November 28, 2018
To investigate exercise effects on falls in people with dementia living in nursing homes, and whether effects were dependent on sex, dementia type, or improvement in balance. A further aim was to describe the occurrence of fall-related injuries.