By Liz Seegert NAHC’s Vice President for Law sat down exclusively with reporter Liz Seegert last month during the association’s annual meeting in Phoenix for a wide-ranging interview on policy, programs, and the future of home healthcare. In this third and final installment of their conversation, he discusses ACOs, post-acute partnerships and the latest CMS […]
by Audrey Kinsella Last month’s Partners Healthcare symposium, “Connected Health in Practice: Engaging Patients and Providers Outside of Traditional Care Settings,” was much less about whether care is delivered in the home or other non-traditional setting and more about the patient. One speaker went so far as to proclaim “Patient is King.” As if […]
A Connecticut woman has sued her healthcare provider for disclosing personal health information to a third party against her explicit instructions. The headline of this story is that the state’s Supreme Court will allow the suit to go forward and allow the plaintiff to use the argument that HIPAA has become a “standard of […]
Consider the Conversation 2: Stories about Cure, Relief, and Comfort did not win an Emmy® Award in Chicago on Saturday night (11/1), but co-producers Michael Bernhagen and Terry Kaldhusdal continue to be amazed by the ripple effect of their collective work despite the absence of funding, a publicist, national media attention and a famous […]
October 19, 2014 (New York, NY) – HHAeXchange, providers of home health management and communications software solutions for agencies and payers, announced at last month’s NAHC Annual Meeting its intention to expand to all 50 states. Already the leading home care software vendor in the state of New York, HHAeXchange continues to evolve its […]
by Liz Seegert NAHC’s Vice President for Law sat down exclusively with reporter Liz Seegert last month during the association’s annual meeting in Phoenix for a wide-ranging interview on policy, programs, and the future of home healthcare. In this second of three parts, he discusses some of NAHC’s recent lobbying efforts. [Discussion touches on face-to-face […]
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 […]
