The real value of electronic health records, experts say, is that they enable data-mining, which can help optimize patient care.

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Nursing homes and post-acute health facilities that don't use electronic health records are going to get left behind, health experts say.

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Maryland health officials failed to conduct required inspections for more than half of the state’s assisted-living facilities and nearly three-quarters of the facilities for the developmentally disabled, auditors found.

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HAGERSTOWN — The owner of a Boonsboro assisted-living center faces criminal charges and a licensing investigation after an 84-year-old Alzheimer’s patient crashed through the unfinished floor of a second-story room into the dining room below, police and state regulators said ...

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County police have identified a husband and wife who died in an apparent murder-suicide at an assisted-living community. Police say 80-year-old Albert Ballard of Rockville came to visit his 74-year-old wife, Sandra Ballard, Monday morning at the ...

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