When curative medical treatment is no longer an option, focus shifts to supporting a patient’s quality of life. Catholic Hospice is a community-based, not-for-profit program, serving Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in Florida since 1988, that believes responsibility to its employees is second only to its patients. It was with these core values and twin […]
Schaumburg, IL — January 15, 2013 — St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, one of the largest providers of non-hospital care in the state, has been using Allscripts for all back office needs for several years. They were interested in improving aide documentation, staff accountability, cost control and the ability to interface with Allscripts. […]
According to a report in MedCityNews.com, a startup company named Health Recovery Solutions has created an online tool that calculates the Medicare penalty for every U.S. hospital. Available at healthrecoverysolutions.com/resources.php, the calculation is based on publicly available Medicare data for readmission rates, Diagnosis-Related Group reimbursement data and the published formula for how to calculate […]
Certainly, this is a familiar problem. We run into it nearly every time we are invited to help a home healthcare provider make a software vendor selection. While the agency wants to be as paperless as possible, providing a point-of-care software solution only to employees is as close as it can come. Most of its […]
Several scenarios from Complete Home Health Care home health agency in Colorado are presented to illustrate the value of using CORHIO’s PatientCare 360®, a Web-based HIE tool that provides a longitudinal view of each patients’ medical history with information supplied by all of the hospitals, laboratories and public health entities connected to CORHIO, the […]
The author provides details about the acquisition by Brightree LLC, the leading provider of billing and business management software solutions for the home medical equipment (HME) market, of home health and hospice software provider CareAnyware, Inc. of Raleigh, NC.
The author provides a personalized letter to his subscribers and readers in which he sends good wishes for 2013 and a heartfelt reminder to: “Never forget that the career you have chosen contributes to the entire nation’s well-being. ” And for this feat, he urges each of them to: “Take a moment to pat […]
The long Allscripts saga is finally over. This article describes the longstanding difficulties leading to the resignation of Allscripts’ CEO Glen Tullman on December 19, 2012.
by Audrey Kinsella Philips Lifeline has introduced a free mobile app to help caregivers track care provided to elders living at home. Unlike other such tracking systems we have recently profiled, Philips’ CarePartners Mobile App has no pre-set “to-do” lists specifying task to be completed for elders’ various needs. In this regard, it appear to […]
On December 13, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions filed a lawsuit in civil court against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), asserting that the 14-hospital public system improperly awarded a $302.8 million electronic medical-record system contract to Epic Systems Corporation, which also is named as a defendant. HHC disputes the assertions in the […]
