On July 11, 2019 WellSky, a health and community care technology company, opened its new world headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. The company welcomed its partners, local employees, and community members for a festive grand opening day, and the announcement of Midland Care Connection, an integrated health care services provider, as the inaugural recipient of […]
by Karen Frank, PT and CEO of Greenlight Mobility and Back Home Safely Many older adults want to remain in the home they love. According to a recent AARP study, 76 percent of people want to stay home as they age. While adults age, though, they often find themselves at a loss to accomplish tasks […]
by Tom Maxwell is co-founder and co-CEO of Maxwell Healthcare Associates, a home health and hospice consulting firm Six out of 10 users (59%) believe EMRs need a complete overhaul, according to a 2018 Stanford Medicine survey. A JAIMA study from the same year shows much of care providers’ EMR dissatisfaction begins and is heightened […]
By Elizabeth Hogue, Esq. Home care providers remain concerned about the enormous power wielded by regulators, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In some instances, providers are concerned that regulators exceed the authority granted to them by Congress and essentially write laws through regulations, guidance, interpretive guidelines, etc. The U.S. Supreme Court […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Whether you send invoices to patients or claims to Medicare, you will soon be judged by how healthy and happy your patients and clients are, not by how many hours you spend with them or how many visits you do. Payers from John Hancock […]
FacebookTwittergoogle_plusEmail Former Olympic ice skating competitor Fonda Figge never expected to become a customer of her own employer. In the winter of ’16/’17, the newly hired marketing representative for Rekovo was slowing to take a freeway exit ramp outside Columbus, Ohio. Behind her, a driver who was texting rear-ended her vehicle at 75 mph. When […]
By Roger McManus MBA Any time your agency is listed anywhere online or in print, it is referred to as a “citation.” […Things change…In years past, consumers would use the phone book [etc.] but since then with the advent of search engines, the world has changed forever]. Citations[Citations typically include what is called your NAP; […]
by Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Former Olympic ice Former Olympic ice skating competitor Fonda Figge never expected to become a customer of her own employer. In the winter of ’16/’17, the newly hired marketing representative for Rekovo was slowing to take a freeway exit ramp outside Columbus, Ohio. Behind […]
by Darcey Trescone, RN Home health agencies, hospices, skilled nursing facilities, rehab and long-term hospitals, and all other Post-Acute Care providers are not more than a year away from hearing this conversation over and over and over again: “We would very much like you to refer some of your hospital’s discharged patients to our care.” […]
by Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. Many providers have expressed concern about the use of “guidance” and “interpretive guidelines,” for example, by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to make major changes to requirements of the Medicare Program. On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision that requires CMS to […]
