Gentiva Home Health announced this week that it completed the rollout of a new clinical point-of-care system between September and November of last year. We spoke with Chief Clinical Officer Charlotte Weaver, RN, to learn how the 40-state organization managed to pull it off in only 10 weeks. Her answer reads like a “how-to” manual for software implementations, even if your agency is not one of the nation’s largest.
by Liz Seegert CMS has revised portions of the relevant program manuals used by Medicare contractors as part of a settlement agreement in the case of Jimmo v. Sebelius, a class action lawsuit brought by individual Medicare beneficiaries and national organizations. Change Request (CR) 8458 updates portions of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual to […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recognized 123 new Accountable Care Organizations, providing approximately 1.5 million more Medicare beneficiaries with access to coordinated care, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on December 23. Doctors, hospitals and health care providers establish ACOs in order to work together to provide higher-quality coordinated care, while helping […]
by Michael Deck, Healthcare Synergy With the explosion of point of care products and the progression from an EMR world to the EHR world, there is a growing trend that will lead many agencies into hot water. And it’s just common sense. We know that our field staff are underworked and overpaid right? (or […]
Three Vendors are the focus of this week’s Vendor News segment. Here are the headlines that say it all: Independa Named #1 Technology in Senior Care at CES 2014; Availity Announces ICD-10 Readiness; and BlackTree opens Clinical Consulting division. Read on for many more details about these companies’ newsmaking efforts.
ATLANTA – Jan. 13, 2014 – Brightree LLC announced today that it has acquired Strategic AR Solutions, LLC, a provider of private-pay billing and collection solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Strategic AR will operate as a separate business entity and will continue to be led by founder and CEO Kevin Winkley. Details […]
Three news items this week about home healthcare product vendors: The first, from post-acute software provider Procura and the introduction of Gary Dixon as Sales Executive for Western USA; second, a story on how CellTrak Techologies gives back in food and services to its communities; and finally, HEALTHCAREfirst announced that it will make its PECOS verification […]
Asserting the importance of post-acute care in the effort to reduce the nation’s healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes, two leaders in physician practice management and post-acute software will cooperate to enable their respective customers to work more closely together, streamline paperwork and facilitate post-acute referrals. Brightree LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based clinical, […]
Cary, NC — January 7, 2014 — Relias Learning, the online content and learning management systems company formed by the combination of Silverchair Learning, Care2Learn and Essential Learning, announced Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of the Hospice Education Network from the principals of Weatherbee Resources. The acquisition adds over 160 hospice and […]
