Combating LonelinessHarvard-incubated organization, leveraging video conferencing and intergenerational relationships to eradicate the loneliness epidemic. Their website and information from their landing page://theconcordium.org/Our world leaves people feeling isolated and lonely. More people are reporting feeling alone than ever before, often leading to serious health problems. We need a way to deal with our feelings of isolation, disconnection and dissatisfaction with life. Conversation is therapeutic beyond measure. Together, we have the tools to…

NCPDP Experienced a Ransomware Attack on Sunday Sept 27, 2020 Notice from NCPDP “NCPDP experienced a ransomware attack over the weekend on Sunday, September 27, 2020; similar to other attacks that happened to healthcare systems over the weekend of September 26-27, 2020.  We are in the process of assessing the extent of the breach but have confirmed it has impacted our servers, internal workstations, laptops, print services, active directory accounts, and applications.  The good news is…

ADL Receives Omnicare Certification for New NCPDP Rx Scripts Format ADL passed Omnicare certification test for the latest release of Scripts NCPDP Electronic Prescribing Standards format. Omnicare Clients will be transitioned to the new format beginning next week. NCPDP SCRIPT Standard: The NCPDP SCRIPT Standard was first published in 1997 and has been updated at least annually based on the business needs identified by the industry. SCRIPT is a standard created to facilitate the transfer of prescription data…

CMS Releases a New PDPM Grouper CMS Releases a New PDPM Grouper CMS has posted an updated PDPM Grouper DLL v1.0007 zip file to the Downloads part of their MDS 3.0 Technical Information website. Per the notice:“An update to the PDPM Grouper DLL has been posted, along with its source code and test cases.  This version, V1.0007, adds six ICD-10 codes that were inadvertently excluded from the NTA calculation: T8484XA, T8389XA, T8321XA, T82399A, T82392A, and T83021A.” ADL has…

ADL has passed Quest Diagnostics certification for Bi-Directional HL7 Transmissions for Laboratory Orders and Results. Now nursing homes using Quest Laboratories can submit Lab Orders and results the Results electronically. The system supports recurring orders and the results are returned in both PDF and data formats. The Order Entry (ORM) HL7 message is a commonly used message type. ORM messages contain information about an order that includes placing new orders, canceling existing orders, discontinuation, holding,…