Important lessons can be learned from those post-acute care operators who have already made strategic operational and clinical changes in response to health care reform mandates.  In many cases, these forward-thinking skilled nursing and rehab communities have already been engaged on this path for several months/years, offering the industry a unique opportunity to ask the question: “What have we learned from the first years of health care reform?”  

Often attributed as a partial cause of the ever-increasing cost of health care, medical malpractice claims are a common, and costly, risk faced by health care providers. However, according to recent research, technological developments in the health care industry may be able to lower some of the risk of medical malpractice claims.