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 two very old companies, is betting it will…and soon.
Care Innovations came to life this year as a separate company formed by a joint venture between GE and Intel. (more…)
Live learning session to be conducted next week in Minneapolis.
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. Individuals wishing to attend this session may register for free at (more…)
by Abby Christopher, HCTR staff writer
Select Data (Anaheim, CA) has announced that it will swap out its existing document management system and replace it with the Xerox DocuShare enterprise content management platform. (more…)
— 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 (more…)
June 9, 2011 (Victoria, B.C.) – Procura, a leading provider of home care software in the United States, Canada and Australia, announced today that it has acquired ContinuLink Health Technologies, the Interim Healthcare spinoff based in Tucker, Georgia. (more…)
The practice of building alliances between non-competing software companies benefits both the vendors and their customers by adding functions at the lowest possible cost. Consider home telehealth systems, for example.
When patient vital sign information must be manually transferred from a telehealth system into the patient record in clinical or billing software, time is wasted and errors can creep in. When back office software vendors get together with telehealth software developers and build an interface to exchange data electronically, everything changes, from cost, to time and effort, to accuracy.
Nowhere is the advantage of collaboration so clear as in the case of OASIS analysis. Though a few back office vendors include some OASIS accuracy features within their core product, it would be expensive to develop all of the comprehensive analysis and benchmarking capabilities that are offered
by the six vendors that focus on them exclusively.
Thornberry Ltd. president Tom Peth reiterated that (more…)
Altoona, PA – June 8, 2011 – Delta Health Technologies, LLC (Delta), a leading provider of technology solutions for homecare, hospice and private duty, announced Wednesday that it has added the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)™ assessment to its ClinicalVirtuoso ™ solution. (more…)
Altoona, Pa. – May 31, 2011 – Targeting a pressing and costly issue and its effect on the home health industry, Delta Health Technologies, LLC (Delta) today announced a national study to identify best practices being used by homecare’s most successful agencies in reducing unplanned hospital readmissions. (more…)
According to the March/April issue of “Market Research Letter,” produced by Healthcare Market Resources (HMR), Medicare reimbursements for home health grew 8.4% from 2007 to 2008. Total Medicare payments in 2007 were $15.8 billion; in 2008 they reached $17.2 billion, in spite of a 2.9% payment rate decrease that year. This anomaly has not gone unnoticed at CMS. (more…)
