HEALTHCAREfirst and Pinnacle Quality Insight; Briggs Healthcare and Footprints EMR Solutions; and Interoperability Alliance and CommonWell Health Alliance are among the companies highlighted in this issue’s Vendor Watch. Each company’s significant activity is described in the short articles that appear in this Vendor Watch. lifHome Health and Hospice CAHPS® Surveys Web-based home health […]
Strategic Healthcare Programs recently announced that it has named Christopher M. Attaya its Vice President of Business Intelligence. Chris had been the CFO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Boston in Charlestown, Massachusetts from 2010 through 2013, and president and CEO of Partners Home Care, Inc. in nearby Waltham before that. SHP founder and CEO […]
Hugh Hale is certain that his company made the right decision to purchase software after years of success building its own. The CIO of the nation’s largest not-for-profit home health provider, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, talked to us about their recently announced contract with Delta Health Technologies. HCTR: You […]
A perennial challenge to home care supervisors, indeed to everyone who manages a mobile workforce, is tracking staff locations, miles driven and timely arrival at home visits. A new tool from Runzheimer International may have the features a mobile workforce manager needs. The 80 year-old, Waterford, Wisconsin-based company perfected its routing software in […]
San Francisco, CA and Victoria, BC – May 21, 2014 – Carrick Capital Partners today announced the firm’s majority investment in the Procura Group of Companies. A multinational organization specializing in healthcare software and solutions, Procura, will remain under the leadership of Scott Overhill, who has been promoted from President to Chief Executive Officer. […]
Gentiva Home Health announced this week that it completed the rollout of a new clinical point-of-care system between September and November of last year. We spoke with Chief Clinical Officer Charlotte Weaver, RN, to learn how the 40-state organization managed to pull it off in only 10 weeks. Her answer reads like a “how-to” manual for software implementations, even if your agency is not one of the nation’s largest.
ATLANTA – Jan. 13, 2014 – Brightree LLC announced today that it has acquired Strategic AR Solutions, LLC, a provider of private-pay billing and collection solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Strategic AR will operate as a separate business entity and will continue to be led by founder and CEO Kevin Winkley. Details […]
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 […]
Cary, NC — January 7, 2014 — Relias Learning, the online content and learning management systems company formed by the combination of Silverchair Learning, Care2Learn and Essential Learning, announced Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of the Hospice Education Network from the principals of Weatherbee Resources. The acquisition adds over 160 hospice and […]
Dear Home Care Colleague, As we bid another year farewell, we pause to thank our subscribers and sponsors for making Home Care Technology Report the premiere technology journal in all of home care. This service to the industry began as an experiment in 1995 by United Communications Group, now known as Decision Health. Tom […]
