by Audrey Kinsella Home healthcare clinicians have always prided themselves on being closer to their patients than other clinicians can be. They do not mean merely physically closer but speak of a personal closeness as well. They know pets’ names, favorite foods, and they know of the difficulties following directives regarding dietary needs, medication […]
By Jon Linkous There has been increasing attention lately to the rise of “Big Med.” Coined by Atul Gawande, MD at Brigham & Women’s Harvard teaching hospital, in the August 2012 edition of The New Yorker (link), the term refers to the accelerating instances of mergers, acquisitions and affiliations that are taking place throughout healthcare. […]
AgeTech California announced the formation of “AgeTech West” at its third Conference and Technology Exposition on November 15. The new effort expands on AgeTech California’s partnership structure between Aging Services of California and the California Association of Health Services at Home by expanding to include two additional nonprofit founding associations, LeadingAge Oregon and LeadingAge Washington. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Liz Seegert Last week, staff writer Liz Seegert examined the Republican Party Platform in terms of its impact on home health care. (http://homecaretechreport.com/article.asp?id=1589) In part two, she takes the same close look at the just-released Democratic platform. It was a bit of a surprise that home health care and home health technology are not […]
Cardiocom (Chanhassen, MN ), a leading provider of telehealth products and services, recently learned that Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has alleged that Cardiocom is infringing certain patent rights. Daniel L. Cosentino, Cardiocom’s President and Chief Executive Officer responded to the allegations, saying, “Bosch’s claims are groundless and completely without merit. Cardiocom’s […]
