Beware the Fall

 Today we will be talking about some differences between Long Term Care (LTC) and Long Term Acute Care Hospitals. It's common in healthcare industry and many fall prevention solution companies to get confused by these terms and what each of them entail. However, it's critical to know these terms to be able to provide services and solutions tailored to each of them. According to Special Hospital of New Jersey, Long Term Care can be categorized as "custodial care". It means that after an acute illness, the patient may recover but still need assistance to go through the day. They may need assistance with various things, it can range from eating, using the bathroom, cleaning, to speech and functional therapy.  On the other hand, Long Term Acute Care Hospitals admit patients that have serious medical conditions that require prolonged medical services. So this entails more than assisting patients with their daily needs, but also their critical medical needs to help them wit...

 In today's blog, I will be talking about something that has been improving throughout the years and also improving our processes and our lives. It's called artificial intelligence. What is artificial intelligence? According to the Oxford Dictionary definition, artificial intelligence is: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. So why is it relevant for fall prevention that I decided to include it in this blog? It's relevant because, artificial intelligence has become a part of the fall prevention solution like other areas that it has been implemented. I've talked about which fall prevention solutions utilize artificial intelligence as a part of their product solutions. Just to jog your memory though, artificial intelligence is mostly used with vision-based fall prevention solutions, but not all fall pr...