By Stephen Tweed, CEO of “Leading Home Care,” a consulting, research and publishing firm serving the Private Duty Home Care industry The 2016 Home Care CEO Leadership Study is coming to a close. If you have not yet completed the online leadership assessment, you have until December 31, 2016 to be part of this […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report Whenever a new administration moves into the White House, it brings advisers, cabinet members and staffers to replace those appointed by the previous President. Even when the incoming ideology is 180 degrees from the one it is replacing, it takes time for the thinking of […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report [Rowan presents a very long list of discrepancies in and challenges to the pre-claim requests (PCR) provided by Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators [PGBA]. The lack of thoroughness demonstrated by the PGBA reviewers are noted in detail. Most disturbing about these reviews, Rowan notes, […]
SUNNYVALE, CA — November 21, 2016 — Pathways Home Health and Hospice became the first home health, palliative care, hospice and private duty organization in the San Francisco Bay Area to adopt Epic’s electronic health record system (EHR). A company news release announcing the decision indicated that this will connect them “to the largest group of hospitals and physicians […]
by Danielle Strachan-Scott, of the London, England home care agency, The Good Care Group, producers of an award winning guide: “Dementia: Through Their Eye.,” The Good Care Group is an award-winning, London home care agency. As a public service, the company has produced “Dementia: Through Their Eyes,” a free, 15-page guide on how to deliver […]
by Audrey Kinsella, Telehealth Reporter, Home Care Technology Report I remember it as though it were yesterday. It was the great Gene Tischer, former Executive Director of the Home Care Association of Florida, who taught me a memorable lesson years ago, as he did many audiences large and small over the years. An audience member […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Georgia Congressman Tom Price, MD, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Seema Verma, MPH, to be administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Price is well known as the author of most of the […]
Springfield, Mo. –November 23, 2016 –HEALTHCAREfirst, the leading provider of Web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services, and advanced analytics, announced that it is hosting a complementary webinar detailing upcoming home health regulatory changes and challenges, including the CY 2017 HH PPS Final Rule. [Topics include: Rates/Payment changes, Recalibration of case mix, […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher, of Home Care Technology Report Last month’s release of “Optima Homecare” (HCTR 10/19/16) was not merely the familiar story of another garage programmer helping out a buddy in the business, later deciding to put his homemade home health EMR software on the open market. Optima Healthcare Solutions (Palm City […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98 percent of HIV isolates tested, including 16 of 20 strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class. The remarkable breadth and potency of […]
