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 […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report A new report from Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, “Improving America’s Housing, 2019,” shows that Americans over 55 years of age spend $152 billion per year on improving their homes. These are just the people who are already remodeling. It seems a no-brainer […]
By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. The world is discovering the value and “beauty” of home care of all types, and now everyone wants to benefit and perhaps profit from such services! It’s awfully nice to be appreciated, but some of the proposals “to get on board the home care train” cause concern, at least initially. […]
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 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 […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor and Publisher of Home Care Technology Report On Monday[March 25. 2019], CMS announced that the Administration has granted another one-year extension to an executive order that allows insurance companies to sell policies that do not meet “minimum essential coverage” regulations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The announcement, reprinted […]
