Between the changes that arrived with the 2019 HH PPS rule and the grand-scale changes coming next year, home health agencies would be wise to develop a change management procedure.

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Parks Associates reports the use of Personal Emergency Response Systems will continue to grow through the Boomer era.

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Anthem is focused on enhancing our ability to offer innovative, integrated clinical care models that can improve the quality of healthcare and deliver better outcomes.

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Do any of these things happen to you? A new referral comes with the message that the patient has no family or friends to offer transportation from hospital to home. A Medicare patient has a post-surgery checkup appointment or a non-medical client needs to get to a dentist but they are considering skipping them because […]

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The latest of several applications of AI that support aging in place include hospital and home-based robot companions that are quickly becoming an essential component for seniors, says Dr. Cory Kidd, PhD.

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Calculating the Return on Investment of an EMR system is not something you do just before purchase, it is a task you perform every year.

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NEW YORK — April 3, 2018 — Today, PHI released the first fact sheet in a three-part series focused on recruiting “new populations” into the direct care workforce, which is expected to grow from 4.4 million to 5.8 million workers between 2016 and 2026.

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Can your staff provide case management services to other post-acute care providers? Should you decide to diversify in this direction, take the advice of a colleague who has learned how to do it well.

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DHHS and CMS finally agree to put patients in control of their own health data, Seema Verma told a HIMSS18 audience.

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By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report A new predictive analytics system has brought better patient outcomes and stronger revenue growth to nine branches of 30-state Encompass Home Health and Hospice. The results were so significant, management is set to expand use of the tool to all 225-branches. One of a Medicare HHAs […]

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