National Research Corporation (NASDAQ:NRCI) announced Tuesday it has acquired, via a stock purchase agreement, Outcome Concept Systems, Inc. (OCS), a home care benchmarking and informatics firm founded in 1992, in an all-cash transaction. OCS will continue to be headquartered in Seattle and Amanda Twiss will remain as president.
During a period of rapid growth, Heritage Health Care Services expanded from seven offices to twelve. During the same period, the Ohio, Medicare certified, home care agency reduced its cadre of regional branch managers from six to three. The story of how they used technology to accomplish these efficiencies is not one you have heard […]
Santa Clara, CA and Fairfield, CT — August 2, 2010 — GE (NYSE: GE) and Intel Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living. The new company will be formed by combining assets of GE Healthcare’s Home Health […]
The significance of Monday’s GE/Intel announcement (detailed elsewhere in this week’s issue) is that they plan to market their telehealth systems to people with chronic conditions and their families, not to home health care professionals. This is entirely different from what the other mega-corporations that have acquired their way into this market — Honeywell, Bayer, […]
Partners 7th Annual Connected Health Symposium Payment denial/appeals consultant has urgent message for Medicare providers
