By Audrey Kinsella In addition to the hands-off, low-touch medical devices we saw in October at the recent Connected Health conference (see HCTR, 11/28/12, “New Tools Help Patients Self-Manage Health, Chronic Conditions”), other vendors demonstrated devices that were somewhat more, shall we say, in your face. Avatars and Robots There is a new breed of […]
by Liz Seegert If there is anyone who knows what it takes to lower the cost of health care, it is former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. As someone steeped in policy for 30 years, one thing she says she knows for sure is that home health care needs to […]
What we in healthcare have been watching for more than a year finally broke through into the mass media on Monday, October 1, the day Medicare began to issue penalties to hospitals with high readmission rates. Thick books, lengthy blogs and hours of conference presentations were compressed into a few paragraphs for public consumption. […]
When HIPAA was new, there was an excellent software product available to help home care agencies and hospices conduct risk assessments and perform all the other required duties to achieve Privacy and Security Rule compliance. Known as GetHIP, from Stony Hill Management, it fell by the wayside when our industry noticed that enforcement by the […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Open Door Forum. Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm, EDT Contact: Dial 800-837-1935 Conference ID: 76245818
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) has announced a plan to fund and spearhead the development of a fall risk assessment tool for home health agencies. To lead the effort, the Santa Barbara, California firm will create a position for a qualified project manager. Details on how SHP CEO Barbara Rosenblum developed a home health industry-specific tool […]
One of the most frequently cited obstacles to implementing a program of remote patient monitoring in a home health care agency is the price of in-home monitoring devices. Coupled with minimum purchase requirements imposed by most home telehealth vendors, cost of entry becomes prohibitive for the majority of home care providers, both those who […]
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 […]
CareAnyware, Inc. (Cary, NC), a North Carolina-based provider of web-based home care and hospice software announced last week the release of SmartCare, a proprietary workflow engine designed to change the way customers manage people, tasks and compliance. Details on how the software assists user in achieving clinical and operational best practices are described in this […]
By Tim Rowan At first glance, discussion of Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the standard by which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will determine eligibility for stimulus payments to healthcare providers, is only of interest to hospitals and physicians. This could be a costly assumption for home health […]
