Dear Home Care Colleague, As we bid another year farewell, we pause to thank our subscribers and sponsors for making Home Care Technology Report the premiere technology journal in all of home care. This service to the industry began as an experiment in 1995 by United Communications Group, now known as Decision Health. Tom […]
by Liz Seegert Hospice providers take note – Hospice Item Set data collection is changing in 2014 and now is the time to begin preparing. This was the alert last week from Kim Roche, RN, BSN, MA, Nurse Consultant, Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS, with a […]
Here is an idea that we have not heard about before. A new medication management device helps people remember to take their medications and takes a full step further toward making sure they actually do. Think of it as a nag around the neck…a potentially lifesaving nag. The CertAlert pendant beeps at pre-set times […]
Atrius Health is a non-profit, Pioneer ACO formed by an alliance of six leading independent medical groups in Eastern and Central Massachusetts. In its first-year results, released in March 2013, the non-profit ACO reported that it had spent an average of $10,700 per patient. The benchmark is slightly over $12,000. That difference, about $1,300, […]
by Liz Seegert Clinical decision support is moving into the field, thanks to a revamp of an old VNA First product. Now known as Eventium, the Milwaukee company demonstrated Latitude, a clinical decision support software application, at last month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Eventium converted VNA FIRST Home Care Steps Pathways and CoSteps into electronic […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum. As part of the call, CMS has incorporated a special breakout session related to the Hospice Information Set (HIS) that will begin promptly at 2:40 p.m. HIS is a standardized, patient-level, data collection instrument but CMS emphasizes that it is not […]
Two Vendor News items this week: 1) Large Interim HealthCare Franchise Rolls Out Procura Homecare Software The Interim HealthCare franchisee, Salo, Inc., has implemented Procura Home Care Software as its end-to-end enterprise solution across 47 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. Salo, Inc. is the largest franchisee in the Interim HealthCare network. […]
Alternate Solutions HealthCare has a unique business model. After starting a traditional home healthcare operation in Ohio in 1999 and finding success, owners Tessie and David Ganzsarto began to provide management services to other agencies. Through their guidance, most of these partners saw their struggling agencies grow by more than 25% in the first […]
