by Adam Bishop, MBA Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a key business component for post-acute care companies looking to increase sales and improve customer service. A purpose-built CRM system can effectively manage accounts and contacts, track sales efforts and results, reduce time spent on administrative tasks and provide real-time reporting to help your company […]
By Tim Rowan “In 10 years, in-home healthcare will be the starting and ending point of all health care, but I don’t think it will be THIS home care.”The second annual “Healthcare in Transition” seminar, held last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, challenged home health and home care executives to adapt or die as the U.S. […]
by Audrey Kinsella A Nashville-based technology company, Evermind, debuted at last January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with an easy-to-use monitoring system for keeping a subtle eye on seniors living alone. The system allows faraway caregivers or adult children to track their adult parents’ daily routines without having to ask them to wear or carry […]
By Tim Rowan The Case: Armstrong v. Exception Child Center The Law in Question: States are required by federal law to “assure that [Medicaid] payments are consistent with efficiency, economy and quality of care and are sufficient to enlist enough providers,” in order to ensure sufficient access to care. The Initial Decision: A federal district […]
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 […]
