TouchPointCare believes in the efficacy of a “data driven” approach to home health care, where caregivers proactively gather patient data and use that information to make treatment decisions. Monitoring programs for homebound patients enable earlier intervention and reduce emergency visits and hospital admissions. The Libertyville (Chicago)-based software company also believes that remote patient monitoring devices […]
Education released for 5010, new HIPAA X12 transaction standards. Obama FY2011 budget allocations millions for Health IT. HME industry snubbed by HHS at Medicare fraud summit.
NEW HOME-TO-HOSPITAL CONNECTED CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM AT MASS GENERAL’S PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PUTS ATTENDING DOCTORS AT PATIENT BEDSIDE 24/7 The eleven-year-old girl – for privacy we will call her Michele – was admitted to the MassGeneral Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at 2:00 am with respiratory distress. The on-call attending physician evaluated Michele, […]
Philips signs 3-year deal with Suncrest Healthcare to provide home telemonitoring technology. FirstChoice Home Health of Ohio selects CareAnyware. Embark Health launches its online Advance Directive Solution service.
Volume 2, Number 4 — January 25, 2010 343 days until the first Baby Boomer applies for Medicare Dear Home Care Colleague, When I began writing about home health care technology in 1998, I was admittedly unpracticed at interviewing and, frankly, after five years as a home care agency IT Director, I still knew less […]
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has announced that it has spent more than $7 million to respond to a security breach that might have compromised members’ personal and health data, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. How did this happen?
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research, the only research center focused on studying home health care in the U.S., has received funding from The Center for Technology and Aging to test state-of-the art information technology (IT) strategies designed to help elderly patients with cognitive impairment […]
WEDI to Build ICD-10 Vendor Directory. ATA to coordinate telemedicine assistance for Haiti. Small progress noticed in movement toward telehealth reimbursement.
Palatine, IL – January 26, 2010 – Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) announced this week the appointment of Michael Siegel as Vice President of Information Services. The former Simione associate and Maxim Healthcare CIO will be responsible for leading all aspects of Addus’ information services operations and infrastructure.
BALTIMORE, MD — Newswise — January 28 — National home care and health care leaders kicked off an 18-month national home-health quality-improvement campaign this month at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
