Kelea Nardini, RN, Director of Parkview Home Care in Pueblo, Colorado, raves about her new patient education system and cites it as the most important tools that has helped drop Parkview’s 60-day hospital readmission rate down to 13.2%, nearly 4 full points under the national average, and simultaneously driven their HH-CAHPS scores above the […]
**News at RemitData, Inc.: Comparative analytics solutions provider hires SVP of Business Development and CTO. RemitDATA, Inc., a provider of comparative analytics in reimbursement, utilization and productivity data, announced two additions to its executive leadership team. Michael Kallish has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Business Development, and Jim Harter as Chief […]
Again, thanks to everyone who participated in the Home Care Technology Report HIPAA Compliance Survey we ran from February 23 through March 26. The purpose of the survey was to gather information in a manner that would allow us to compare it to the Ponemon Institute Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and […]
ATLANTA, June 14, 2013 — Today’s hospitals consider physician relationships critical to their success in an accountable care environment – whether through direct employment or affiliation with independent community physicians. This is according to a survey of 139 hospital and health system executives by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). The survey, sponsored by […]
Have you figured out what it means to you that CMS has changed the way it counts your hospital readmissions? We interviewed SHP CEO Barbara Rosenblum to get more detail on her recent blog note on the subject.
The School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has reported on a study that showed that regular telephone contact with a nurse substantially reduced hospital re-admissions for high-risk patients. The findings also determined that health care costs were decreased by approximately $1,225 for each patient enrolled in the program, when […]
Schaumburg, IL (June 11, 2013) – As a nonprofit, Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care has found that implementing a technology solution allows them to spend less time on paper and more time on patient care. Beginning with an EMR from Suncoast Solutions, they later added mobile technology, selecting to deliver services at […]
Here is the dilemma. You have examined several software applications and found the one that meets 99% of your requirements. The missing piece is your preference to deploy a hosted solution rather than install it on your own servers. The vendor you like does not offer its system that way. Third party IT service companies […]
By Timothy J. Rowan, Home Care Technology Report editor Dear Home Care Colleague, If you have been lying awake nights worrying about how you are finally going to get every last referring physician to register with PECOS, you are going to love this story that broke on May 31. As reported by David Pittman, […]
