by Scott R. Herrmann Mobile technology at the point of care simplifies communication to field staff and leads to better patient outcomes and overall agency results. Mobile applications provide real-time schedule automation, care plans, time and attendance, GPS location information, and more. This month, I explore these features and benefits and more.
by Liz Seegert New care models, partnerships and patient-centered care were frequent topics at last month’s World Health Care Congress. One panel discussion, featuring executives from the Joselin Diabetes Center, Mass General Hospital, Texas Health Resources and Kaiser Permanente, explored mobile apps, ACOs, connectivity among providers, payers, and consumers, and innovations to encourage consumers […]
Calling it the “first web-based EMR system to offer full hospice functionality in one platform,” CareAnyware, a Brightree Company, introduced its Spring 2013 hospice release at the NHPCO Management and Leadership Conference last week. Innovations include new in-patient features such as encounter entry, patient vitals capture, and ESAS symptom assessment scores, designed to be […]
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. […]
