Last week we reported that longtime home care and home medical equipment software vendor CareCentric had been acquired by Mediware. Knowing many readers are likely to be unfamiliar with both names, we spoke with division leader Ken Pereira to gather additional insights into the meaning of the acquisition.

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On June 8, we received an unsigned email from “HomeCareNews@vistomail.com,” an apparently phony email address from a non-existent publication. It included a link to a Pennsylvania court document, a lawsuit filed against Atlanta-based software company HomecareCRM. Our attempts to contact the plaintiff, Health Market Science, Inc., both directly and through the suspect email address, have been unsuccessful. Wednesday we received this official statement from HomecareCRM…

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One of the oldest home care software companies — and clearly the one with the most complicated and interesting history — is now a part of the growing Mediware Information Systems empire, which already included Healthcare Automation Inc., Advantage Reimbursement Inc. and Hann’s On Software.

Will proprietary home telehealth devices, manufactured to work with patented home telehealth software and approved by the FDA, one day be an obsolete technology? A new telehealth company, the offspring of one old company and one very old company, is betting it will…and soon. Exclusive interview with Aaron Duerksen, General Manager of Disease Management for Care Innovations.

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There is still time to register for CMS-sponsored, free ACO Learning Sessions, set for Monday, June 20 through Wednesday, June 22, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The Anaheim, California home care software vendor timed this Xerox partnership announcement with the release of its new point-of-care data capture system that can be used with laptops, netbooks, tablets and the iPad, plus paper document scanning systems.

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— Approximately $40 million in Affordable Care Act funds for statewide chronic disease prevention programs. State and territorial health departments may submit grant applications.
— CMS Announces National Version 5010 Testing Days
— CMS Seeks Comments on Vascular Readmissions Measure

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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.

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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.

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