By Tim Rowan The six-year long, $375 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud fiasco that was revealed last month, allegedly perpetrated by Dr. Jacques Roy and 500 conspiring Texas home health care organizations, could have been prevented. Will Texas and other states and U.S. territories learn from the experience or will Roy-like racketeers continue to thrive […]
By the Founding Members of the EVV Standards Workgroup: http://www.evvworkgroup.org Addressing Medicaid Budget Short Falls and Program Integrity with Electronic Visit Verification Solutions An open letter to Medicaid officials It is no secret that Medicaid budgets are severely strained and that program integrity is on the front-burner. Every state is challenged to address both issues […]
By Tim Rowan In our ongoing effort to fully cover the home health care and hospice technology field in order to maintain high journalistic standards for our readers and advertisers, Home Care Technology Report is happy to announce that Elizabeth Seegert has joined us as a freelance staff writer. She will be based in New […]
Phil Chuang, PhD, FHIMSS is the CIO for Sutter VNA and Hospice, a Northern California not-for-profit affiliated with Sutter Health System. Edward Elliott is the agency’s Technical Services Manager. Like many in their positions, they learned more than they thought they would during the process of implementing a clinical point-of-care system across multiple branches. The […]
A San Francisco-based startup, LifeNexus, Inc., has received a U.S. patent for its iChip™ and Personal Health Card®, introduced in February at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas. There have been wallet-size cards introduced before with personal health information stored on a magnetic strip, but this one is a little different. One’s health data is encoded onto […]
A Review of Electronic Signature Regulations State, national, and international laws and agreements set out clear legal requirements for electronic signatures: Legislatures in at least 46 U.S. states have enacted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act(UETA) since its adoption in 1996 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. These state laws comply and […]
by Audrey KinsellaAt last month’s Partners Healthcare-sponsored conference [in October 2011], “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” new models of home care dominated the high-level discussions. Examples of what could be dubbed “anywhere care,” provided for people requiring regular care to manage chronic conditions, are not home healthcare […]
by Audrey Kinsella Jonathan Schwartz is a former President and CEO of Sun MicroSystems. Kian Saneii is a computer engineer from San Diego. Though not acquainted with each other, both are members of The Sandwich Generation, people with busy careers, children to raise and elderly parents to worry about. Both responded independently to the triple […]
by Audrey KinsellaThe recently concluded “2011 Connected Health Symposium,” presented by Partners Healthcare’s “Center for Connected Health,” showcased new healthcare service delivery technologies that will certainly affect all healthcare segments, including home healthcare providers and consumers.The two-day conference, titled “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” took place last […]
ContinuLink Introduces Patient Portal for Physicians and Families Unlike the two patient portals profiled elsewhere in this issue [HCTR, 2/28/2012], Boca Raton-based ContinuLink makes its online product and related services available to its home care provider customers so that they can, in turn, use it to assist patient families. Available since 2006, it is a […]
