http://www.homehealthnews.org Helping home health care workers thrive Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:32:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following its debut last October, ContinuLink has made headlines more than once. Most recently, the company seems to have beaten its more seasoned colleagues to the punch by offering its 30-plus customers what may have been the first PECOS integration tool for check a physician's eligibility to make home care ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/as-cms-issues-another-ambiguous-pecos-deadline-software-vendors-begin-to-grab-reins/ If your home care agency or hospice is like most, you have already deployed or are seriously considering investing in mobile computers for your clinical staff. In this environment, the tools you have to manage office PCs cannot keep up. It is time to learn from the big boys. What ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/cio-corner-pc-lifecycle-management-in-a-mobile-environment-what-the-pros-do/ The Center for Technology and Aging (CTA) is collaborating with the Administration on Aging (AoA) and CMS to fund innovative care transition projects for older adults and persons with disabilities. Grants are designed to expand use of technologies that promote better patient transitions from hospitals, rehabilitation centers ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/new-grants-announced-to-fund-home-telehealth-systems-improve-care-transitions-for-elderly/ The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, 2010 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT. To participate: 800-837-1935 Conference ID: 89682139 Topic Overview: The August 2010 Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment Open Door Forum will address three unique health care concerns within the ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/cms-news-august-open-door-forum/ July 16, 2010 — CMS Public Affairs Office News Release — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced a number of changes to Medicare home health payments for 2011 that will promote efficiency in payments, implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/complete-text-of-cms-2011-home-health-pps-rate-proposal/ -- Allscripts to help Central Virginia system share patient data with hospital, physicians and home care -- ATA calls for presentation proposals for 2011 meeting Chicago, IL and Lynchburg, VA — July 20, 2010 Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced last week that Centra, a three-hospital system in Central Virginia, has selected the Allscripts Electronic ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/vendor-watch-for-july-26-2010/ Physicians who have not enrolled in the Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) or opted out of Medicare will not be able to order or refer Medicare patients for home health services. PECOS is the electronic enrollment database of Medicare providers and suppliers that ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/vendors-begin-to-build-pecos-alert-systems-to-automatically-identify-unregistered-physicians/ BREAKING NEWS Federal agents charged 94 people in Miami, Florida; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Detroit, Michigan, and the Brooklyn borough of New York Friday with defrauding Medicare, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies said in a joint statement. It is the largest health care fraud takedown since ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/cms-breaking-news-94-arrested-friday-for-medicare-fraud/ Altoona, PA – July 13, 2010 – Delta Health Technologies, LLC (Delta) has announced that it will be joining with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), two of the nation's therapy associates and the industry's leading best practice research firm to create a Forum ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/delta-health-technologies-fazzi-associates-launch-excellence-in-therapy-research-project/ A new study indicates that programs that include home-based automated symptom monitoring and telephone-based care management improve cancer patients' ability to cope with pain and depression. The "Indiana Cancer Pain and Depression Trial" (INCPAD) included patients in 16 community-based urban and rural cancer ... http://www.homehealthnews.org/2010/07/study-shows-home-telehealth-can-help-cancer-patients-pain-depression/