Award-Winning Software Provider for Homecare and Hospice Market Will Strengthen Hearst’s Expanding Healthcare Information Footprint NEW YORK, December 2, 2013 – Hearst Corporation today signed an agreement with Homecare Homebase, LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive software-as-a-service solutions to the homecare and hospice market, to acquire 85 percent of the Dallas-based company. The announcement was made […]
By Audrey Kinsella “Collaboration and Innovation to Engage Patients and Elevate Care” was the agenda at last month’s Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health Symposium in Boston. Three new companies supporting that agenda were showcased in a session titled “The Innovators: 10 Demonstrations of Sensor, Robots and Devices.” InTouch Health (Goleta, CA), OmSignal (Montreal, QC, […]
Two letters to Congress are printed in this article: One from the American Hospital Association penned by Linda E. Fishman, a senior executive at the AHA, to Jonathan Blum, CMS Deputy Administrator and Director for the Center of Medicare demanding that testing of new ICD-10 coding be expedited; and another letter, this one sent to […]
by Liz Seegert Bill Dombi, NAHC’s Vice President of Law, spends a lot of time on Capitol Hill, meeting with Republican and Democratic lawmakers to ensure that home health care has a voice as the healthcare landscape changes. Topping his priority list these days is CMS’s proposed payment rebasing plan, which would cut base […]
These 3 companies’ reach toward impressive milestones are featured below. CellTrak Technologies and Coldharbour System‘s inroad’s into London-based Ark Homecare is noted in detail. Kinnser Software’s capturing a place in the prestigious Deloitte LLP’s 2013 Technology Fast 500™is described. And, HomecareCRM release of a “predictive intelligence” module and its extensive capabilities are described in detail.
Time Warner Cable Business Class (TWCBC) -a division of Time Warner Cable- announced this week the launch of a new telemedicine program, “Virtual Visit” Home Health Monitoring, with Cleveland Clinic. The program will interact with patients in their homes via television-equipped video conferencing technology. The service is offered as a fully contained, bundled offering, […]
Aging 2.0, a global organization whose mission is to accelerate innovation in aging, has launched The GENerator, a program for entrepreneurs who are focused on the 50+ demographic. The program provides promising entrepreneurs with unique access to older adults, mentors, distribution channels and investors. “The changing demographics and corresponding market opportunity are unprecedented, however there […]
Statement by the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (unedited) WASHINGTON — Nov. 23, 2013 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will slash funding and reduce services for vulnerable patients to access the Medicare home health benefit, despite substantive arguments from VNAA and other home health industry organizations, patient advocacy groups, providers […]
by Liz Seegert Bill Dombi, NAHC’s Vice President of Law, spends a lot of time on Capitol Hill, meeting with Republican and Democratic lawmakers to ensure that home health care has a voice as the healthcare landscape changes. Topping his priority list these days is CMS’s proposed payment rebasing plan, which would cut base payments […]
There is a serious battle brewing between NAHC and CMS. NAHC Vice President for Law Bill Dombi has written a letter of complaint to CMS regarding the behavior and competence of one Zone Program Integrity Contractor, Health Integrity, LLC. The letter accuses Health Integrity’s Vice President for Operations, a Mr. James Hargrove, of improper, over-zealous […]
