With mobile technology continuing to become more pervasive and relevant within the healthcare continuum, put Booth #1528 on your dance card for this month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Schaumburg (Chicago), Illinois-based CellTrak will be demonstrating new cell-based product releases and enhancements for teams of mobile clinicians and home health aides. Details are provided in this […]
by Audrey Kinsella The upcoming Connected Health Symposium, sponsored by Boston’s Partners HealthCare, may inadvertently go unnoticed because it is scheduled concurrently with the NAHC Annual Meeting, but that would be unfortunate. Titled “Innovations to Build Value, Accountable Care, and Patient Engagement,” the October 25/26 confab will present dozens of high-level talks and presentations on […]
Faced with capped reimbursements and rising operational costs, Mike Little and Maria Radwanski, RN MSN, CRRN, respectively CEO and President of Health Calls Home Health in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, have found success by staying ahead of the technology wave. At the top of their priority list was making their agency attractive to hospitals and for that […]
Procura announced Wednesday that Procura Mobile, described as a multi-platform mobile application, is now available on BlackBerry OS7 and Android. Support for Apple iOS is planned for late 2012. Details about this application’s capabilities and uses as a home healthcare mobile app are discussed in this article.
Medicare contractor CGS, which provides home health and hospice claims processing services in 17 states and the District of Columbia, has identified two computer errors that have been incorrectly rejecting certain claims for all Medicare contractors. The author provides an explanation of the errors drawn from the CGS web site, followed by specific information […]
Monday of this week was October 1, 2012, the first day of Federal Fiscal Year 2013. The first day of a new Supreme Court session and the first day of Medicare hospital readmission penalties. The mass media has finally heard that Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates by a predetermined percentage […]
What we in healthcare have been watching for more than a year finally broke through into the mass media on Monday, October 1, the day Medicare began to issue penalties to hospitals with high readmission rates. Thick books, lengthy blogs and hours of conference presentations were compressed into a few paragraphs for public consumption. […]
According to the not-for-profit research group eHealth Initiative (eHI), clinics in poor neighborhoods can improve patients’ health and cut hospitalizations by using mobile devices, patient Web portals, and social networks to monitor and inform. These findings are based on a recent study, An Issue Brief on eHealth Tools and Diabetes Care for Socially Disadvantaged […]
ContinuLink and PPS Plus to build OASIS bridges together. Home health care software developer ContinuLink LLC and OASIS analysis software provider PPS Plus Software announced last week that they have integrated their respective software platforms to help their mutual customers improve outcome reporting and receive more accurate Medicare reimbursements. Details about this planned integration […]
