The long Allscripts saga is finally over. This article describes the longstanding difficulties leading to the resignation of Allscripts’ CEO Glen Tullman on December 19, 2012.
by Audrey Kinsella Philips Lifeline has introduced a free mobile app to help caregivers track care provided to elders living at home. Unlike other such tracking systems we have recently profiled, Philips’ CarePartners Mobile App has no pre-set “to-do” lists specifying task to be completed for elders’ various needs. In this regard, it appear to […]
This article indicates some of the key predictions for healthcare change in this country by several seminal thinkers, such as Donald Berwick, former CMS administrator. What changes will “work” or not in the next years of the Obama Administration are identified and discussed.
by Scott R. Herrmann More and more healthcare technology organizations are developing Patient Portals to improve patient satisfaction and build stronger patient relationships. This fourth and final article in a series explores both health- and cost-savings opportunities that portals present and points out where this technology makes sense for home care agencies and hospices. […]
There are indications that the nature and purpose of point-of-care home health software is changing. Originally a tool limited to recording patient data at the patient’s home and delivering it electronically to a central database, it appears to be evolving into something significantly more comprehensive and potentially more valuable. Software demonstrated at last month’s NAHC […]
The author profiles many new technologies, including the “most jaw-dropping new product” – instant med reconciliation, from MedSnap; “least jaw-dropping new product – new software vendor” – TruPointe; a noteworthy need for the home care and hospice patient audience: eFuneral, a web site that eases stress while grieving; several patient portals for aging persons who want to […]
Faced with capped reimbursements and rising operational costs, Mike Little and Maria Radwanski, RN MSN, CRRN, respectively CEO and President of Health Calls Home Health in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, have found success by staying ahead of the technology wave. At the top of their priority list was making their agency attractive to hospitals and for that […]
Monday of this week was October 1, 2012, the first day of Federal Fiscal Year 2013. The first day of a new Supreme Court session and the first day of Medicare hospital readmission penalties. The mass media has finally heard that Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates by a predetermined percentage […]
Delta Health Technologies (Altoona, PA) is previewing a major product release set for unveiling at next month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Crescendo™ is a new software platform designed to allow home health, hospice and private duty clinicians to document and share care provided, regardless of service or payer source, in one streamlined system. Details about the new […]
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that, as of July 1, 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) began serving 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries in 40 states and the District of Columbia. ACOs are organizations formed by groups of doctors and other health care providers that have agreed to work together to coordinate […]
