Schaumburg, IL — January 15, 2013 — St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, one of the largest providers of non-hospital care in the state, has been using Allscripts for all back office needs for several years. They were interested in improving aide documentation, staff accountability, cost control and the ability to interface with Allscripts. […]
A randomized control study of 3,988 high-risk gastrointestinal, heart or lower respiratory patients found that prioritized, telephonic outreach by case managers following hospital discharge reduced future readmissions by 22 percent. The results of the study, conducted by health insurance provider Cigna (NYSE:CI), are published in the December 2012 issue of the independent, peer-reviewed American […]
According to a report in MedCityNews.com, a startup company named Health Recovery Solutions has created an online tool that calculates the Medicare penalty for every U.S. hospital. Available at healthrecoverysolutions.com/resources.php, the calculation is based on publicly available Medicare data for readmission rates, Diagnosis-Related Group reimbursement data and the published formula for how to calculate […]
Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill (HR 6719) that fixes the two existing barriers to the use of telemedicine in federal health programs: reimbursement and physician licensure. By eliminating arbitrary coverage restrictions and simplifying licensure requirements within federal health programs, the bill would extend the benefits of telehealth and mHealth to nearly […]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the formation and approval of 106 new Accountable Care Organizations. As many as 4 million more Medicare beneficiaries now have access to coordinated care.
In our lead article this week, based on a Department of Health and Human Services press release, we published a link to the complete list of 106 new ACOs. At first glance, it would appear that individual physicians are taking the lead in forming new Accountable Care Organizations. Upon closer examination of the HHS […]
Certainly, this is a familiar problem. We run into it nearly every time we are invited to help a home healthcare provider make a software vendor selection. While the agency wants to be as paperless as possible, providing a point-of-care software solution only to employees is as close as it can come. Most of its […]
Several scenarios from Complete Home Health Care home health agency in Colorado are presented to illustrate the value of using CORHIO’s PatientCare 360®, a Web-based HIE tool that provides a longitudinal view of each patients’ medical history with information supplied by all of the hospitals, laboratories and public health entities connected to CORHIO, the […]
The author provides details about the acquisition by Brightree LLC, the leading provider of billing and business management software solutions for the home medical equipment (HME) market, of home health and hospice software provider CareAnyware, Inc. of Raleigh, NC.
