by Scott Peifer, Executive Director, AgeTech West Innovation is a critical skill and practice for aging service providers – and may mean the difference between being able to continue fulfilling their mission and being disrupted by a competitor or missed strategic opportunity. Technology plays a big part in not only transforming the service experience […]
New kinds of complaints from field clinicians have been coming in almost daily to Natick Visiting Nurse Association management ever since the Boston area non-profit home health agency implemented a new point-of-care software system from Brightree. Nurses and therapists have told CIO Wendy Cofran, “I can no longer use work as an excuse to […]
By Liz Seegert Bill Dombi, NAHC’s Vice President for Law, sat down with our policy reporter Liz Seegert last week in Phoenix. In this first of a three-part series on their wide-ranging discussion of policy, programs, and the future of home healthcare, he discusses payments, acquisitions and the mid-term elections.
With all the talk in the media about Ebola, both science-based and fear-based, we were pleased to see a solution-based news report in a mainstream publication. The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently published a story about Noninvasive Medical Technologies, a Vegas-based company we have been keeping track of for a number of years now (see Stabilizing […]
Two news items are discussed in this article: 1) Tunstall Acquires Mountain Home Medical; and Philips Lifeline GoSafe mobile technology keeps active seniors connected. In the first item, the acquisition by Tunstall Americas of Colorado-based Mountain Home Medical (formerly American Medical Alert Corporation [Long Island City, NY] is described, as are details about the acquired […]
The Procura Group of Companies has announced that their ContinuLink Homecare Platform has been selected by ResCare, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky.
People at the NAHC meeting were wondering why only a few sales people were left in the exhibit hall booth Tuesday after top executives of Relias Learning rushed back to headquarters in Cary, North Carolina on Monday evening. The answer came Tuesday morning when HCTR received the following press release. October 21, 2014 – […]
A range of vendors and new products are spotlighted in this article, as a preview to their presence and activity at the upcoming NAHC Annual Meeting, Oct. 19-22, 2014, in Phoenix, AZ. Companies represented include Brightree, Philips, and the Procura Group of Companies. Brightree will demonstrate a new point-of-care app for the iPad that has […]
Over 300 courses now available for home care. Cary, NC — October 13, 2014 — Relias Learning, the SaaS-based training and compliance solutions provider for the health and human services market, announced the release of 28 new home health courses. The new courses offer a range of content including HIPAA compliance and disease condition and […]
FRANKLIN, Tenn. Oct. 14, 2014 – PlayMaker CRM, the nation’s leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software for the post-acute care industry, announced today it has secured a significant growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners. The capital will be used to further expand development of PlayMaker’s CRM product with a continued emphasis on mobile functionality […]
