More than in past years, we were able to find home health, home care, and hospice-relevant products at the annual HIMSS meeting. Take a peek at the movement toward user-friendly Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that will soon generate products in our corner.
WESTBURY, N.Y. — Feb. 6, 2017 — Enhancing the telemonitoring services it has been delivering for more than a decade, Northwell Health Home Care Network announced an agreement with Health Recovery Solutions. The Hoboken, NJ-based telehealth company will provide Northwell patients with Bluetooth-enabled remote monitoring systems. Patients like 100-year-old Bernard Feinstein of Queens (see inset) […]
That Was The Year That Was!
Everyone knows that sending an email is as secure as sending a postcard through the mail. Anyone who wants to read your “Having a great time, wish you were here” message can do so with impunity and anonymity. In healthcare, however, the content of email messages is usually more personal, more revealing, and more, well, […]
The Procura Group of Companies has announced the delivery of a Human Resources Documentation framework for home care, community care, and hospice providers. A company news release stated that the system was designed to support an organization’s most valuable resource, its people. The framework provides a means to incorporate virtually any form of document as […]
“The nature of home healthcare is changing, and along with it the software requirements of home care providers.” This assessment by Kinnser Software COO Christopher Fountain explains two major recent moves by the Austin, Texas software company, helping it shed its 11-year reputation as a low-cost facilitator of Medicare startups. Kinnser announced at last month’s NAHC Financial […]
Two articles are highlighted here: 1) ContinuLink expands sales team To meet the rising demand for SaaS-based home healthcare software, ContinuLink is expanding its North American sales team. Anthony Vacca, Mark Hamilton, and William “Tad” Harry have joined the company as Regional Vice Presidents of Sales. Executive Vice President of North American Sales Brad Caldwell […]
Two Vendor News items this week: 1) Large Interim HealthCare Franchise Rolls Out Procura Homecare Software The Interim HealthCare franchisee, Salo, Inc., has implemented Procura Home Care Software as its end-to-end enterprise solution across 47 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. Salo, Inc. is the largest franchisee in the Interim HealthCare network. […]
Winning official certification for a home health EHR product involves jumping through hundreds of hoops. What is more, at the end there is no ARRA stimulus money to offer to customers as there is for meaningful use of hospital and physician EHRs. For these two reasons, only one home health vendor has previously sought […]
Kelea Nardini, RN, Director of Parkview Home Care in Pueblo, Colorado, raves about her new patient education system and cites it as the most important tools that has helped drop Parkview’s 60-day hospital readmission rate down to 13.2%, nearly 4 full points under the national average, and simultaneously driven their HH-CAHPS scores above the […]
