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Data-driven change needed in long-term care

Data-driven change needed in long-term care By: Carole Estabrooks   More than 22,000 people in Canada have died from COVID-19 – the vast majority of them aged over 60 years. Most of those deaths occurred in long-term care homes. This crisis continues now, even after governments and operators have put in place emergency strategies and, in some jurisdictions, creative solutions to address staff shortages. For example, offering to pay relatives to provide care, creating new support roles with free training and providing salary top-ups. This response, however, is years late, and piecemeal in its approach.  In June, the Royal Society of Canada released a policy briefing by the Working Group on Long-Term Care which outlined nine recommendations that would go a long way to not just fix the current communicable disease crisis, but fix the sector that enabled the crisis to wreak such avoidable and tragic havoc.   

Apervita and Diameter Health Partner to Realize a Higher Standard of Clinical Data Quality Across Healthcare Industry

Apervita and Diameter Health Partner to Realize a Higher Standard of Clinical Data Quality Across Healthcare Industry Partnership will add health data optimization capabilities to the interoperability layer of Apervita s collaboration platform to power quality measurement and value optimization solutions News provided by Share this article Share this article Apervita & Diameter Health have joined forces to realize a higher standard of clinical data quality across the healthcare industry. CHICAGO, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Apervita, the trusted platform for healthcare collaboration, and Diameter Health, a fast-growing leader in health data interoperability and optimization, today announced a partnership to accelerate digital quality measurement and value-based care by providing access to clean, normalized, and enriched clinical data. The alliance will significantly increase the quality and volume of digital data available for quality measurements, which are often utilized for

The Government s Response To the Crisis in Long-Term Care Must Include Robust Data-Driven Change

The Government’s Response To the Crisis in Long-Term Care Must Include Robust Data-Driven Change The long-term care crisis, in part, is a data crisis. By Carole Estabrooks More than 19,000 people in Canada have died from COVID-19 – more than 17,000 of them aged over 60 years. The majority of those deaths occurred in long-term care homes. This crisis continues now, even after governments and operators have put in place emergency strategies and, in some jurisdictions, creative solutions to address staff shortages. For example, offering to pay relatives to provide care, creating new support roles with free training and providing salary top-ups. This response, however, is years late, and piecemeal in its approach.

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