CellTrak Mobile Technology Improves Client Care in Vancouver for the Community Home Support Services Association.
Medline and SHP partner to create reporting and benchmarking system to help providers select optimum wound care treatment.CellTrak Mobile Technology Improves Client Care in Vancouver for the Community Home Support Services Association.
Schaumburg, IL — July 5, 2010 — Community Home Support Services Association (CHSSA), a not-for-profit provider of in-home health care services to the elderly and individuals with physical and/or developmental disabilities in Western Canada, has deployed CellTrak’s communication system on BlackBerry® devices to improve patient care.
Previously, visits were recorded on paper and communications were achieved with voicemail, document copies and faxing. Keeping schedule and care plan changes up to date had became a problem for administrative and field staff. A time-consuming and inefficient way to exchange information, this practice led to communication breakdowns and missed appointments.
CHSSA and software partner Procura turned to CellTrak running on BlackBerry devices on the Rogers Wireless network and replaced most of their paper and manual processes. Community health workers now have all their daily information delivered in real time to their BlackBerry.
CHSSA reduced its paperwork and has seen a measurable improvement in data accuracy and visit compliance. Supervisors know the whereabouts of community health workers through GPS mapping, which helps ensure that the CHWs safely arrive at, and depart from, each appointment.
Isabel Sum, Director of Home Support Operations at CHSSA said, “CellTrak, Procura and Rogers worked very closely with us to understand the needs of our organization. Our employees now spend less time completing administrative tasks and more time caring for our community.”
CHSSA employs over 600 community health workers who provide service in over 40 languages to approximately 2,200 clients in Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia.
Medline and SHP partner to create reporting and benchmarking system to help providers select optimum wound care treatment.
Mundelein, IL, June 30, 2010
– To help home health care providers improve patient outcomes and comply with new federal regulations on data collection and best practices implementation, Medline Industries, Inc., and Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) are joining forces to provide a new reporting and benchmarking system that the companies describe as state-of-the-art. The automated program recognizes specific diagnosis codes in patient records and suggests best-practices supplies and interventions to achieve improved patient outcomes.Medline and SHP developed the best practices technology to help home care providers comply with OASIS-C and to improve Home Health Compare scores.
“We have developed a program that not only shows home health agencies where their problems exist, but how to fix them with the right products and treatment,” said Mike Lee, president of Medline’s Homecare Division. “Patients reap the benefit of better treatment, decreased wound healing time, and reduction in pain. All of these, in turn, improve provider scores while decreasing costs.”
Medline leverages SHP’s real-time reporting capabilities and automated data interfaces with the industry’s software vendors and transmits its patient-specific medical supply order data to SHP. Home health agencies receive SHP’s real-time email notifications alerting them to issues that require immediate attention. If the supply orders do not match best practice recommendations, action can be taken. SHP drill-down reports also identify the specific clinician delivering care, enabling targeted education and increased accountability.
“Our data indicate that proper wound management continues to be both a clinical and financial challenge to healthcare providers. Evidence-based best practices programs such as this are the solution to improving the situation. The patient, provider and payer all benefit in this scenario. This is disease management at its best,” commented Barbara Rosenblum, Founder and CEO of SHP.
Braff Group expands into behavioral health and social services.
Pittsburgh, PA, July 8, 2010 – The Braff Group announced last week that Ted Jordan and Nancy Weisling have joined the firm to head up its new Behavioral Health and Social Services merger and acquisition advisory team.
Jordan and Weisling have more than 30 years combined experience in business development and M&A at The Mentor Network, one of the nation’s leading behavioral health and social services providers.
“As an investment banking firm focused on post-acute health care services typically reimbursed by third party payors, we have long been drawn to behavioral health and social services and its similar market dynamics,” said The Braff Group president Dexter W. Braff. “With Ted and Nancy anchoring our team, we can now take a leadership position in this exciting sector and leverage our strengths in health care services.”
Jordan and Weisling will be based in Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL respectively.
