By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report In a strong statement about the growing importance of healthcare at home to the U.S. healthcare system, Chicago-based Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. has invested $70 million toward the creation of a new joint venture with Netsmart, an Overland Park, Kansas tech company focused on software […]
Product review by Tim Rowan, editor “Picture this,” suggests Director of Strategic Solutions Scott Herrmann. “A joint replacement patient develops a redness around the incision. An aide notices it during a routine visit and makes a note in the app in her phone. During the next LPN visit, the aide’s note is read and […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor The Visiting Nurse Associations of America has announced that Joy Cameron and Alexandra Bradley have joined the organization’s staff as Vice President of Public Policy and Marketing and Communications Manager, respectively. Cameron will lead VNAA’s federal policy initiatives, working to advance VNAA’s vision of transforming home-based care for providers and populations. […]
by Tim Rowan, editor “A great marriage,” is the way Allscripts’ Director of Solution Management Marie Finnegan describes the newly formed joint venture between her company and Netsmart. (See “Allscripts Reinvests in Home Care” in this week’s issue.) We spoke with Ms. Finnegan and Area VP Jason Banks this week to learn how company […]
by Audrey Kinsella, HCTR Telehealth Reporter Heart failure, diabetes, respiratory problems, canoeing, bicycling, golf. What else belongs on the list of adjectives that describes today’s seniors? Multiple co-morbidities? Shopping? Dialysis? Hiking? Last year, I was chided by the founding president of the American Telemedicine Association for assuming that remote monitoring is only for the […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Failing one out of every five customers is bad business. Yet that is the 30-day readmission rate for patients treated in U.S. hospitals for acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and congestive heart failure.1 There is no question that patient outcomes are partly the result of the […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor and Publisher, HCTR Irving, California-based CyberNet released a new mobile Windows tablet last week at HIMSS in Las Vegas. Though it is on the pricey side, it sports some features that may make it appropriate for certain healthcare at home uses. The US-manufactured device comes with a 3-year warranty, upgradeable to […]
by Tim Rowan, editor and publisher One could not throw a rock at this year’s HIMSS meeting without hitting someone in the middle of a conversation about interoperability.
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, HCTR The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) provides tax credits for employers hiring employees from certain targeted groups. The PATH Act extended WOTC through 2019, including 2015 retroactively, and added a new category of qualified hires targeting the long-term unemployed, starting in January 2016. For the first few months […]
by Amy Holliday, nurse and HIPAA consultant On January 13, 2016, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) upheld a $239,800 penalty against Lincare, Inc., finding the company “violated HIPAA because it failed to safeguard the PHI of its patients.” Lincare supplies respiratory care, infusion therapy, and medical equipment […]
