When HIPAA was new, there was an excellent software product available to help home care agencies and hospices conduct risk assessments and perform all the other required duties to achieve Privacy and Security Rule compliance. Known as GetHIP, from Stony Hill Management, it fell by the wayside when our industry noticed that enforcement by the […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Open Door Forum. Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm, EDT Contact: Dial 800-837-1935 Conference ID: 76245818
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) has announced a plan to fund and spearhead the development of a fall risk assessment tool for home health agencies. To lead the effort, the Santa Barbara, California firm will create a position for a qualified project manager. Details on how SHP CEO Barbara Rosenblum developed a home health industry-specific tool […]
Reports from this year’s “BlackBerry Jam Americas” conference make it clear that Research In Motion CEO and president Thorsten Heins knows his product line has fallen behind the curve. But is his solution, the BlackBerry 10, enough to catch up to the iPhones and Androids that are quickly replacing it? This article indicates the next […]
by Roger McManus, MBA You have been told many times you need to claim your business online. But do you know why it is so important to be listed on the Internet? Who goes online when looking for personal services – particularly hospice and other in-home care services? [McManus proceeds by providing a basic definition […]
One of the most frequently cited obstacles to implementing a program of remote patient monitoring in a home health care agency is the price of in-home monitoring devices. Coupled with minimum purchase requirements imposed by most home telehealth vendors, cost of entry becomes prohibitive for the majority of home care providers, both those who […]
Delta Health Technologies (Altoona, PA) is previewing a major product release set for unveiling at next month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Crescendo™ is a new software platform designed to allow home health, hospice and private duty clinicians to document and share care provided, regardless of service or payer source, in one streamlined system. Details about the new […]
The Hospice Education Network (HEN) has made its entire catalog of courses available on iPhones, Android phones and iPads, plus newer Blackberries and Kindles. In addition to viewing lectures and earning credits on desktop and laptop PCs and Macs, hospice nurses and administrators can now access HEN’s courses – nearly 200 and steadily growing – […]
After a four-year partnership, The Riverside Company has sold HEALTHCAREfirst to Pamlico Capital. Known as an operations-focused buyout house, Riverside is a private equity firm that had already exited from nine other companies during 2012.
CareAnyware, Inc. (Cary, NC), a North Carolina-based provider of web-based home care and hospice software announced last week the release of SmartCare, a proprietary workflow engine designed to change the way customers manage people, tasks and compliance. Details on how the software assists user in achieving clinical and operational best practices are described in this […]
