The Procura Group of Companies has announced the delivery of a Human Resources Documentation framework for home care, community care, and hospice providers. A company news release stated that the system was designed to support an organization’s most valuable resource, its people. The framework provides a means to incorporate virtually any form of document as […]
A disturbing number of home health providers has grown so frustrated with Veterans Administration physicians failing to sign critical documents that they have elected to discontinue providing services to veterans. According to a survey jointly conducted by Home Care Technology Report and SutureHealth, 6.7% of respondents currently refuse to accept VA patients and 8.7% will […]
Consider the Conversation 2: Stories about Cure, Relief, and Comfort – a moving and provocative film from Wisconsin-based social entrepreneurs and independent filmmakers Terry Kaldhusdal and Michael Bernhagen – was among the 2013-14 Emmy® nominees announced by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at a ceremony held on September […]
According to reports from Kelly Gilblom and Caroline Chen in Bloomberg News, John N. Frank in Modern Healthcare, and Susan Levine and Arthur Allen in Politico, the Dallas hospital treating the nation’s first case of Ebola is blaming a flaw in its EMR system for allowing Thomas Eric Duncan to be discharged on September 25 […]
Do home care agencies make a profit, break even, or lose money caring for veterans? Stories have been surfacing recently across the country about growing numbers of full episodes of care that were never reimbursed and had to be taken as a loss. These are cases where the patient was referred to the home care […]
by Audrey Kinsella The Visiting Nurse Associations of America believes in the importance and effectiveness of Home Telehealthcare. I was convinced of this positive news within the first five minutes of my most recent interview with Tracey Moorhead, VNAA President and CEO.
0 Reddit Dear Home Care Colleague, The next time a physician demands a “referral fee” from you (I know, it’s illegal; but people tell me all the time that the practice is so common they will never get referrals if they don’t give in and play by the local unwritten rules) show them this […]
New system eliminates routine finger pricks for glucose measurements1 Requires no finger pricks for calibration Advanced Ambulatory Glucose Profile software presents data in a user-friendly, visual chart Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced on September 3 that it has received CE Mark (Conformite Europeenne) for its FreeStyle®Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, a new glucose sensing technology for […]
by Liz Seegert Paul Tang, M.D., may have one of the coolest jobs in health care. As vice president, chief innovation and technology officer at the Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, he is the driving force behind the growing success of linkAges, a new, community-based, multi-generational network designed […]
Great Lakes Health Connect was created in the 2014 merger of two of the nation’s most successful HIEs, Michigan Health Connect and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange. Combining the expertise of the two companies, GLHC sees itself as positioned to meet the growing HIE needs of a wide variety of healthcare providers. Existing connections include […]
