by Tamar Frumkin, Director of Marketing at Swift Shift, a firm helping early stage startups build meaningful and impactful brands both in the United States and Tel Aviv for recruiting and retaining firms’ new service employees. Everyone is talking about recruitment/staffing and what to do. As our industry faces what could be considered an impending […]

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Acquisition Expands Reach of One of Healthcare at Home’s Original Software Vendors COLUMBUS, Ohio — December 18, 2017 — Salo Solutions, Inc. (Salo), a Columbus-based, healthcare-focused IT consultancy and systems integrator, today announced their purchase of Delta Health Technologies (Delta), an Altoona, Pa.-based leading software provider for home health, hospice and private duty agencies. A […]

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By  FacebookTwitterGoogle+Email By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report   Acquisitions do not usually unfold like this. For weeks, the staff at Delta Health Technologies‘ Altoona, Pennsylvania headquarters had known, thanks to the transparency policy of President and CEO Keith Crownover, that some sort of recapitalization plan was in the works. They […]

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By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the fifth open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Exchange was the most cost effective and smooth enrollment experience for consumers, releasing data that shows the highest rates of consumer satisfaction to date […]

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ATLANTA – December 20, 2017 – Brightree Home Health & Hospice LLC has released “Integrated Alerting” between its software platform and that of Strategic Healthcare Programs. A Brightree announcement describes the collaboration as a way to provide more efficient and accurate reporting to home health agencies. “This seamless transfer of data between Brightree and SHP’s […]

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By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Ho,e Care Technology Report For years, we have been wanting hard data to lay at the feet of MedPAC and CMS, Anthem and UnitedHealth, to show what we have always known. Healthcare at Home saves more than it costs. When in-home care follows — or precedes — a […]

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  FacebookTwitterGoogle+Email   Dr. Grey, who is the Chief Science Officer at SENS Research Foundation and VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, coined the phrase, “From Aging in Place to Thriving in Motion” during his presentation, titled “Rejuvenation Biotechnology: Why Age May Soon Cease to Imply Aging.” Dr. Kvedar took a different road […]

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By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon appears to be on a mission to send a message to would-be Medicare frauds. Last week, the judge for the Southern District of Texas sentenced a woman with stage IV metastatic breast cancer, and 7-year old twin boys at […]

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By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Two weeks ago, we printed the testimony of Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice Executive Director Joe Russell regarding his state’s chosen model to implement Electronic Visit Verification as mandated by the 21st Century CURES Act (see sidebar below). Ohio’s model is controversial […]

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Facebook Twitter Google+ Email Rhonda is the company’s Regulatory Analyst and a certified hospice and palliative nurse. She told us, “I determined there are a lot of interdisciplinary, holistic process via twice-monthly es within home health that are similar to hospice.” Ms. Whitehurst decided to make her expertise available to customers as early as April. […]

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