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 […]
by Tim Rowan Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, conducts independent research and education that advances information security, data protection, privacy and responsible information management practices within businesses and governments throughout the world. At last week’s HIMSS meeting, Ponemon announced results of The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations in 2016 (February 2016). […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, HCTR Among the lineup of experts from hospital systems and payers, Philip Painter, MD, the Chief Medical Officer for Humana AT Home will be a featured speaker at the World Health Care Congress in Washington DC, April 10-13. Organizers have arranged for both in-person and online registrations and promised that online participants […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, HCTR In today’s competitive environment, when profit margins are razor thin, providers are well aware of the old sales training adage that it is easier to keep a customer than to win a new one. The expense, however, of keeping in touch with every discharged patient is prohibitive, when […]
