By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report, and Elizabeth Zink Pearson, Esq. When you look at the entire landscape of Medicare regulations, a cloud parts and regulators’ ultimate goal appears. CMS is trying to push the entire Post-Acute Care sector toward patient-centered care, patient engagement, patient outcomes. According to home health attorney […]
Vendor Watch: Patient Recruitment Tool Boost Connects Agencies to their Inactive Nurses and Caregivers to Address Industry-Wide Recruitment Pains in Home Healthcare (January 23, New York, NY) – Swift Shift, a mobile-first workforce management platform for the home healthcare industry, is launching Boost – a recruitment solution for home healthcare agencies to address the nursing […]
Albuquerque, NM – January 15, 2018 – UnityBPO, a provider of health care IT services, today announced a partnership with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York to assist with the transition and implementation of their Electronic Health Record. UnityBPO will provide clinical application managed services as well as deliver our UnityWithinTM Platform, a comprehensive […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report If you have office PCs that are suddenly unable to boot up, it may be Microsoft’s fault, not yours or that of some hacker in Russia. The software behemoth announced on January 9 that it was canceling its January 8 Windows 10 upgrade because […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar on Review and Correct Reports for Home Health Agencies. [Details in this short news story cover the intended audience involved in the healthcare at home industry, date, time, purpose, and webinar registration information.] […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report CMS administrator Seema Verma announced this week that Kentucky is the first state to receive permission to make work a requirement to remain eligible for Medicaid benefits. Nearly a dozen other states have submitted similar proposals but Kentucky’s is the first to be approved. […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Last month, CMS Administrator Seema Verma submitted to an interview with reporter Avik Roy from Forbes Online magazine. The wide-ranging interview captured Verma’s opinions of the Affordable Care Act and its individual mandate to purchase insurance, skyrocketing drug prices, and the nomination of her […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Healthcare at home providers can use a secure, encrypted texting application to discuss patient conditions with each other, take photographs of wounds or medicine bottles, or attach documents for signature. Physicians cannot, however, send patient orders by text, even via an encrypted system. On […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report On Tuesday of this week, the CMS announced that doctors and other eligible clinicians participating in the Quality Payment Program can begin submitting their 2017 performance data using a new system on the QPP website. The data submission system, CMS asserts, is an improvement […]
