A range of products displayed and/or discussed at the recent National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) annual conference is discussed in this article. They include new and expanded visit tracking mechanisms from CareWatch, one of home healthcare’s and hospice’s first telephony service providers. Much detail is provided on use of its EVV Security […]
by Liz Seegert Many sessions at this month’s World Health Care Congress focused on partnerships. Collaboration is a word we in post-acute care will hear a lot in the coming years, as primary care providers are forced to transition from fee-for-service to an outcomes-driven approach. Patient-centric care and innovation were top of mind when […]
by Rebecca MacKinnon Historically, a Pediatrics program to Homecare was much like Kolkata to Mother Theresa: a labor of love and a vow of poverty. In any industry, change always generates the need for new businesses, which means new opportunities. As healthcare changes, pediatrics is emerging as a business option and may offer a glimpse […]
April 23, 2013 New York, NY — Home Health Connected (homehealthconnected.com), a social platform focused on fostering better communication across the home health industry, officially launched today. Home Health Connected is designed to enable home health professionals opportunities for greater collaboration through a stronger social forum that can expand from around the country to […]
Coleen Murphy-DeOrsey, RN, BS, has watched as more than $30 million in home care fraud accusations resulting in arrests have gone down within her suburban Detroit home health care agency’s service area. One of the clinicians arrested once worked for Optimal Care, Inc. in Bingham Farms, Michigan, where Ms. Murphy-DeOrsey is COO and a […]
by Liz Seegert The 10th annual World Health Care Congress was held in Washington, DC earlier this month. It is an excellent forum for exchanging some of the best thinking on policy, health IT, life sciences, payers and providers, the business of healthcare, hospitals and health systems and global health. The annual event brings together top […]
By Jon Linkous There has been increasing attention lately to the rise of “Big Med.” Coined by Atul Gawande, MD at Brigham & Women’s Harvard teaching hospital, in the August 2012 edition of The New Yorker (link), the term refers to the accelerating instances of mergers, acquisitions and affiliations that are taking place throughout healthcare. […]
A team of five Boston-area researchers* has found stark geographical and ethnicity-based differences in the practice of delaying care due to cost. In an article in the April 9 New England Journal of Medicine, they expressed hope that provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that expand Medicaid eligibility will reduce […]
by Liz Seegert Having spent most of his career in and around the Washington, DC bureaucracy, Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), has cut through his share of red tape and senseless regulations. This month’s reshuffling of federal Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, however, which disqualified 97 counties from Medicare telemedicine reimbursement, […]
Depression can be a significant indicator of a home healthcare patient’s risk for premature rehospitalization. Until now, however, recognizing depression and developing treatment plans have not been within the skill set of the typical home care nurse. A series of four studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted by Cornell University […]
