Building on a national health information technology strategic plan for long-term and post-acute care: comments by the Long Term Post Acute Care Health Information Technology Collaborative.

The LTPAC (Long Term Post Acute Care) Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative consists of an alliance of long-term services and post-acute care stakeholders. Members of the collaborative are actively promoting HIT innovations in long-term care settings because IT adoption for health care institutions in the United States has become a high priority. One method used to actively promote HIT is providing expert comments on important documents addressing HIT adoption.

Tenure, certification, and education of nursing home administrators, medical directors, and directors of nursing in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: United States 2004.

Objectives: To understand key characteristics of the leadership team, and to examine if differences in these factors exist between for-profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP) nursing homes (NHs).

Design: Cross sectional.

Setting: US nursing homes.

Use of electronic information systems in nursing homes: United States, 2004.

Objectives: This study sought to define the extent of utilization of 12 types of electronic information system (EIS) function in U.S. nursing homes (NH), to relate EIS utilization to selected facility characteristics and to contrast these findings to previous estimates of EIS use in NH.