Admin., “Plum Healthcare and Netsmart Partner to Innovate Technology to Enhance Integrated Care in Senior Living,” OVERLAND PARK, Kan., April 24, 2019—Plum Healthcare (Plum), a leading senior living provider, has joined with healthcare IT company Netsmart in a 10-year strategic partnership to innovate technology solutions and services to enhance care delivery. This joint innovation-based partnership […]
By Admin The Immersus Health Company LLC, founded 7 years ago by Brian Pavlin, provides US designed and manufactured, evidence-based support surface and seating systems to hospice organizations and patients in their care.[Details are provided about the company’s owner, Brian Pavlin, and his quest to develop hospice patient-appropriate mattresses and seating products and earn clinically […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report David Schiller served for 30 years as a Special Agent in Charge with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). [Rowan reports on Schiller’s longstanding role in working to curb this country’s corrupt pharmacies that supplied highly addictive painkillers sent to drugstores from Sacramento, California […]
By Elizabeth Hogue, Esq. Simply Home Health Care, a home health agency in Illinois, is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and AdvanceMed, a UPIC, for continued suspension of payments from the Medicare Program in Simply Home Healthcare, LLC . Azar et al, Case No. 1:19cv-02313, in the U.S. District Court […]
Update to Public Reporting of the Hospice Visits When Death is Imminent Measure Pair The “Hospice Visits when Death is Imminent” measure pair assesses whether a hospice patient’s and caregiver’s needs were addressed by hospice staff in the last three and seven days of life. The three-day “Hospice Visits when Death is Imminent” measure will […]
WellSky [formerly, Mediware Information Systems (Lenexa, KS) a health and community care technology company backed by TPG Capital; and Citus Health (New York, NY), a digital health solutions provider for post-acute care providers have formed an exclusive new partnership. Together, WellSky and Citus Health are launching an integrated, web-based, and mobile patient engagement module that […]
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show. The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago launched the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) Reduction Program, created by the Affordable Care Act. […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor and Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Today [April 10, 2019], the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that will increase plan choices and benefits, including allowing Medicare Advantage plans to include additional telehealth benefits. These policies continue the agency’s efforts to modernize Medicare Advantage and Part D […]
by Darcey Trescone, RN, BSN [The Patient-Driven Groupings Model will change the way home health is paid starting next year…and this article shares viewpoints of representatives from 3 leading software vendors–Netsmart, Axxess and OperaCare–and discusses what each of them is doing to support the industry in their own words, and most particularly they focus on […]
Cloud-based provider AlayaCare is expanding how it supports the home care industry, particularly the home infusion market, through data collection, support of the intake process, and analysis of performance. AlayaCare’s APIs [defined in Wikipedia as a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications] for interoperability, remote monitoring, schedule and route optimization, machine […]
