What do these home healthcare and home medical equipment software companies have in common? Hann’s On Software Healthcare Automation CareCentric Mestamed Fastrack Each one offers either Home Medical Equipment or Home IV Therapy software or both. Some also have small, relatively unknown Home Healthcare EMR applications. Over the last three years, each has been […]
Commentary by Dr. Kevin Doughty When the first results of the English Whole System Demonstrators for telehealth were announced in December 2011, it was assumed that they would quickly lead to the adoption of the technology within health services across the developed world. The headlines were so positive – “if used correctly telehealth can deliver”: […]
Analysis by Audrey Kinsella Headlines like these are becoming increasingly, alarmingly, common: “Report: Telemedicine Increases Death Rate” [in the UK’s Online Pharma Times, 6/5/13] “Unintended Consequences: How Telehealth Can Fail to Manage Chronic Diseases” [University of Texas blog post by a nursing school professor] Both pieces imply that telehealthcare can actually worsen a patient’s condition. […]
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 […]
