by Michael McGowan, former OASIS coordinator for CMS Region IX, and currently president and founder of OperaCare, a healthcare at home software company It was a true story. “The Perfect Storm,” a book by Sebastian Junger, made into a 2000 film by Wolfgang Petersen and starring George Clooney, chronicled the tragic story of the Andrea […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Elizabeth Pearson, esq. You cannot pick up a newspaper, turn on a TV news broadcast or visit a news web site today without hearing stories about Congressional town hall meetings. Either they are invaded by Affordable Care Act supporters or they are being avoided […]
In what is sure to become a historic manifesto, 40-year home care veteran Dr. Bob Fazzi calls all of us to redefine our role in the US healthcare system. More than a naming exercise, this landmark declaration is a call to action…and a warning of what is to come if we remain passive.
Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2014—Home health and hospice providers serve nearly six million patients each year. Performing care in the patient’s home makes each visit unique to the patient and setting, requiring careful clinician training and planning to ensure smooth care transitions and ongoing, quality patient care. Today, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America […]
by Liz Seegert While it may be unusual to begin a sales presentation with excerpts from your wedding vows, Keri Lamont, Phoenix area director for Bayada Home Health Care and one of the industry’s top sales professionals, pulled it off, with grace, observing that “the promises of authenticity, trust, and transparency we make […]
Three news items this week about home healthcare product vendors: The first, from post-acute software provider Procura and the introduction of Gary Dixon as Sales Executive for Western USA; second, a story on how CellTrak Techologies gives back in food and services to its communities; and finally, HEALTHCAREfirst announced that it will make its PECOS verification […]
Award-Winning Software Provider for Homecare and Hospice Market Will Strengthen Hearst’s Expanding Healthcare Information Footprint NEW YORK, December 2, 2013 – Hearst Corporation today signed an agreement with Homecare Homebase, LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive software-as-a-service solutions to the homecare and hospice market, to acquire 85 percent of the Dallas-based company. The announcement was made […]
In this article, HCTR editor Tim Rowan makes the case for Faulkner to consider making a determined focus on improving home healthcare software, and making a connection with software company Homecare Homebase which offers a full-featured, well-designed home health and hospice software system which Epic does not have. The many benefits of Faulkner’s doing so for the good of the home health industry are described.
by Liz Seegert In front of nearly all 900 attendees, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) praised home healthcare as a viable solution to the country’s out of control health spending during a keynote address at last week’s NAHC Annual Meeting in National Harbor, MD. “What you do cuts costs,” Reid told the audience. “Hospitals or […]
As reported elsewhere in this week’s issue, video-enabled virtual visits are becoming more popular as home healthcare providers search for ways to extend the reach of nurses and reduce hospital readmissions. Thanks to ever-improving technology, advanced security measures and the creativity of home health administrators, remote patient monitoring is becoming a solution for more […]
