by Scott Herrmann The days of business as usual are quickly coming to an end for health care, including home healthcare, private duty and hospice. All over the world, health care systems struggle with rising costs and inconsistent quality of care. Leaders and policy makers have tried countless fixes to eliminating errors, such as […]
Commentary by Dr. Kevin Doughty When the first results of the English Whole System Demonstrators for telehealth were announced in December 2011, it was assumed that they would quickly lead to the adoption of the technology within health services across the developed world. The headlines were so positive – “if used correctly telehealth can deliver”: […]
This article indicates some of the key predictions for healthcare change in this country by several seminal thinkers, such as Donald Berwick, former CMS administrator. What changes will “work” or not in the next years of the Obama Administration are identified and discussed.
CMS announced the first three participants in a program designed to help consumers get more information regarding their local doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers. The Medicare Data Sharing for Performance Measurement program, made possible by the Affordable Care Act, will make Medicare claims data available, under strict privacy requirements, to groups that […]
by Scott R. Herrmann More and more healthcare technology organizations are developing Patient Portals to improve patient satisfaction and build stronger patient relationships. This fourth and final article in a series explores both health- and cost-savings opportunities that portals present and points out where this technology makes sense for home care agencies and hospices. […]
Faced with capped reimbursements and rising operational costs, Mike Little and Maria Radwanski, RN MSN, CRRN, respectively CEO and President of Health Calls Home Health in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, have found success by staying ahead of the technology wave. At the top of their priority list was making their agency attractive to hospitals and for that […]
According to the not-for-profit research group eHealth Initiative (eHI), clinics in poor neighborhoods can improve patients’ health and cut hospitalizations by using mobile devices, patient Web portals, and social networks to monitor and inform. These findings are based on a recent study, An Issue Brief on eHealth Tools and Diabetes Care for Socially Disadvantaged […]
