Less than a year and a half ago, ContinuLink emerged as a separate company from its origins as a software product developed internally for Interim Healthcare. Procura is the dominant home care technology company in Canada, with offices in the U.S. and Australia. In our interviews with principals of both companies, we discovered the thinking behind this surprise acquisition.
Thornberry Ltd. has announced that it will not merely recommend that its customers use OASIS analysis software from new partner Home Health Gold. It plans to include the product as a standard add-on with every new sale of its NDoc application from now on.
The Altoona, Pennsylvania software vendor has announced an enhancement to its free documentation application for therapists.
20% of fee-for-service Medicare patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, and 34% return to the hospital within 90 days. Reasons cited most often are unclear discharge directions, especially for medications, and lack of follow up communication with caregivers, problems home care is uniquely positioned to mitigate. A new study of ways home care can reduce hospital readmissions is underway with results expected in time for this year’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Delta Health Technologies will underwrite the study, which will be conducted by Fazzi Associates.
Located an hour’s drive from Joplin, HEALTHCAREfirst has a number of employees with friends and family affected by this month’s record-breaking tornado. In one day, they collected over $6,000 for a relief agency and the company added $5,000. “Devastation from the tornado is unimaginable,” said company president Bobby Robertson.
One of our advertisers has been promoting a service designed to aggregate financial information in order to help home care providers make a strong case before Medicaid officials intent on slashing rates. Though the fee to use the site and benefit from its data analyses was extremely low, the company has decided to make it completely free. We spoke with Frank Giannantonio, president of FGA, Inc., to find out what motivated such a move.
Lively discussions are not new within home care’s small telephony vendor community. Never before, however, has a controversy spawned the birth of an entire new organization to address it, nor has it led to such cooperation among competitors. As state Medicaid officials finally begin to appreciate the advantages of Electronic Visit Verification, the way four of them are going about it has raised some serious concerns.
Home Care Technology Report has learned that HealthCareFIRST, a home care and hospice software and services company based in Springfield, Missouri, has acquired 100% of the stock of CareFacts, Inc., a home care and hospice software vendor in St. Paul, Minnesota.
What do these ten technologies have in common? GPS Navigation system
Personal Digital Assistant
Flip Video Camera
MP3 Player
Digital Camera
Handheld Video Game
Notebook PC
Cell Phone
Wrist Watch
TV & Stereo Remote Control
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When some organizations have a good year, they often look around for ways to "pay it forward" to express gratitude for their good fortune. Home care software vendor Kinnser Software did not have to look far. In its hometown, Austin, Texas, fully 50% of children raised in foster care wind up on the streets or in prison after they are released from the system. The community established a program to provide housing and help in other ways but it relies entirely on donations. The Austin Children’s Shelter just received a significant donation.
