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Pressure Injury Prevention Technology for Hospitals
Pressure Injury Prevention Technology for Hospitals Hospital-acquired pressure injuries could cost U.S. hospitals more than $26.8 billion a year, according to a study in the..
What Does the Research Say About Bed Alarms?
Do bed alarms prevent falls in hospitals? Not on their own, according to the best available evidence. In a randomized study published inAnnals of Internal Medicine, one hospital..
How Much Does a Patient Fall Cost a Hospital?
How much does a patient fall cost a hospital? A peer-reviewed study inJAMA Health Forumput the average at $62,521 for a fall without injury and $64,526 for a fall with injury..
Prevention Technology for Skilled Nursing Facilities: What Works
Fall prevention technology for skilled nursing facilities has moved from nice-to-have to necessary. The HHS Office of Inspector General found that nursing homes failed to report..
Falls with Injury eCQM: What CMS's New Rule Means
CMS's FY 2027 inpatient payment rule takes effect on October 1, 2026. One provision changes how the public will see every hospital's fall record. The rule makes the falls with..
VA Rates VirtuSense Fall Prevention Low Risk
VirtuSense has reached an important milestone in its work with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA Office of Information and Technology (OIT) completed a formal Enterprise..
Nurse Adoption of AI Monitoring: Why ROI Depends on It
On September 23, 2026, Black Book Research released its State of AI in Hospital Nursing report. Among the 202 hospital nurses surveyed, 65% said they feel individually watched or..
Is Your Patient Monitoring AI HIPAA Compliant?
Hospitals adopting AI-based patient monitoring are running into a question their vendors don't always answer clearly: where does the video actually go? HHS has proposed the most..
One Platform for Falls and Pressure Injuries, Not Two
Most hospitals manage fall prevention and pressure injury prevention as two separate problems, run by different teams, with different vendors, and different technology budgets —..
Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Beyond the Reminders
Every September, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) leads Falls Prevention Awareness Week, running September 21–25 this year, with Falls Prevention Awareness Day on September..
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