By Tim Rowan Imagine: you wake up in the middle of the night with severe thumping in your chest. Your breath is coming in short, choppy bursts and you break out in a cold sweat. Ah, but you are a healthcare tech lover and you have a prototype of a portable echo-cardiogram attached to your […]
By Tim Rowan Tantalizingly interesting descriptions of the five informational sessions slated for the upcoming Healthcare in Transition seminar, April 13-15, 2015, in Scottsdale, Arizona are presented in this article. Among these are:”Solutions to Thrive Through Reform,” with a range of top-notch presenters focusing on strategies to thrive through competition, ACO partnerships, hospital readmissions, population […]
by Tim Rowan, Editor I had the opportunity this week to interact with some of our community’s thought leaders. The experience reminded me, and left me wondering why, there is an impenetrable wall of common sense between home healthcare’s wisest attorneys, marketers, clinicians and financial consultants on the one side and policy makers in Baltimore […]
uality in Real Time According to a joint news release, a new strategic partnership between document management company Forcura and coding services provider Quality in Real Time (QIRT), will provide clients with “the only end-to-end document management, compliance, and quality assurance solution in the healthcare industry. What does that mean for home health agencies? In […]
Your home health, home care, or hospice has a web page, a LinkedIn account, a Facebook page and is all over the Twitter universe. Your sales people have knocked on the door of every physician in the Tri-State area. Still, you have the feeling that there are hundreds, even thousands, of potential patients or […]
Carosh Compliance Solutions announced today the launch of HIPAA Prep®, a training series designed to provide actionable training on HIPAA to the small to mid-size market. HIPAA Prep is designed to demystify HIPAA requirements imposed on both Covered Entities and Business Associates by deconstructing complex HIPAA concepts. President and CEO Roger Shindell explained, “We […]
by Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS Here we are in 2015 and HIPAA remains a puzzle to many practitioners. Even those who have put the puzzle together are often still missing pieces. With the February release of Ponemon Institute’s “Fifth Annual Study on Medical Identity Theft,” which reveals that the problem continues to grow rather than […]
Boca Raton, FL and San Rafael, CA – March 12, 2015 – Procura announced today that it has acquired Indura Software, Inc., the developer and owner of Igea home health care software. The Igea cloud-based system was launched in 2003, offering clinical forms, integrated software solutions, and embedded Medicare service management capabilities. Established in 1989, […]
by Wendell Potter, reprinted from his blog “Obamacare is a train wreck, and that’s actually not fair to train wrecks.” So said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. It was a line that drew both applause and laughs, as you would expect from a gathering of folks […]
by Tamela Buhrke What is the difference between fear and trepidation? While one freezes you in your tracks, the other spikes your adrenaline and motivates you into action. The three subjects of this week’s interview are all afraid of what is coming to home healthcare, but they are anything but frozen. One offers survival […]
