By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s Open Letter Calling for Rules to Protect the Safety and Health of all Americans. Despite stringent safeguards, alarming stories continue to be reported about people, including some of our most vulnerable individuals, who have experienced harm in healthcare settings that […]
WellSky Acquires Health Care Software Inc. LENEXA, Kan. — Feb. 26, 2019 — WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company backed by TPG Capital, and Health Care Software, Inc., a leading provider of integrated clinical and financial IT software for long-term acute care hospitals, senior living, and in-patient behavioral health providers, today announced […]
Homecare Homebase Signs Virginia Home Health Provider Homecare Homebase –Dallas, Tx– has announced that Virginia’s Five Star Home Health Care has joined its growing roster of agency clients. Five Star offers “whole-person care” with fully integrated, in-home nursing, therapy and personal care services. With major regulatory changes fast approaching, Five Star Home Health Care was […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report l At last month’s Home Care 100 conference, post-acute care leaders sat down with health system and managed care executives to describe the benefits of collaboration. As public and private payers move in the direction of value-based payments, they asserted, this level of teamwork […]
By Darcey Trescone, RN, BSN To date, we know that PDGM will result in significant changes for agencies and the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software they use. Quality and compliance with regulations, including how care is provided and what is documented, will become even more critical. If you have attended the webinars and read the […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of the Home Care Technology Report Dear Friends and Colleagues, This special edition marks two anniversaries. I hope you might indulge me while I look back on my 20 years as editor of Home Care Technology Report. Even if you have been around as long as I have, there […]
by Tim Rowan, Editor and Publisher of The Home Care Technology Report The most controversial provision in the home health payment system that becomes law on January 1, 2020 needs some unpacking. CMS has decided that lower revenue levels likely to come from PDGM will motivate you to cheat. One fear is that you will […]
by Roger McManus, MBA Over the last 24 months, we have seen significant changes in consumer behavior with regard to online consumer research. This particularly impacts home care, an industry years behind in using this free resource of business.[McManus recounts the brief history of an ”online review craze” which Amazon started a dozen years ago, […]
