PECOS Down Due to scheduled maintenance, Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) will be unavailable from Monday, March 29, 2010 through Monday, April 5, 2010. Internet-based PECOS allows physicians, non-physician practitioners, providers, and other suppliers (except suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies [DMEPOS]) to enroll or make a change to […]
The Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center in North Carolina has received an $870,000 grant to expand its successful remote monitoring service to more rural families. In the last three years, the first phase of the project drove down hospitalization rates to record lows, in some cases to zero.
Phytel is a technology company enabling physicians to communicate with their patients at home, and their community-based caregivers such as long term care facilities and home care agencies. It would be a good idea for home care sales and marketing staff to be familiar with what Phytel is up to.
Since there may have been a little less clarity than we had hoped in the way we phrased our telehealth story last week, we offer some additional detail about Philips Healthcare’s Cardiology Care Cycles products. We will also take the opportunity to clarify our warning about our industry’s slow adoption of home telehealth systems elsewhere […]
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this month, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence™ platform. Cisco staff described HealthPresence as “an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform that allows patients to connect with doctors and clinicians for health care consultations.”
From Republican leaders to communications company CEOs to physicians in leadership positions, keynote speakers at this month’s HIMSS meeting had a great deal of good news and strong opinions about the importance of Information Technology. Just walking around among the other 40,000 people was often enough to pick up insights into technology trends to watch […]
During the recent HIMSS meeting, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benamin delivered an address that outlined her vision for using Electronic Health Records to improve the nation’s health. We received permission to reprint it verbatim.
On January 1, 2010, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) closed a loophole in its home health PPS regulations with a rule that is likely to harm more legitimate providers than shady characters, the group the rule supposedly targets. Responding to a known abusive practice, the federal agency applied a sledge hammer where […]
Volume 2, Number 5 — February 1, 2010 336 days until the first Baby Boomer applies for Medicare Dear Home Care Colleague, I want to emphasize one point this week by mentioning it here instead of burying it in a news story. I have been speaking with members of the advisory board of the Home […]
Your software vendor search is over. Your preferred servers, routers and operating systems have been selected. It was a grueling process but, now that it is over, you can relax, maybe give your IT department a half day off. According to a newly unveiled White Paper from Informatics Corporation of America, you had better not.
