Ambercare describes itself as a unique home healthcare agency. Founded by Michael and Mary Merrell over 15 years ago, the New Mexico agency is employee-owned, which the Merrells believe enables a superior quality level that the Merrells have dubbed the “Ambercare Standard of Care.”  Details about this company’s range of care services and effective uses […]

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  Again, thanks to everyone who participated in the Home Care Technology Report HIPAA Compliance Survey we ran from February 23 through March 26. The purpose of the survey was to gather information in a manner that would allow us to compare it to the Ponemon Institute Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and […]

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Have you figured out what it means to you that CMS has changed the way it counts your hospital readmissions? We interviewed SHP CEO Barbara Rosenblum to get more detail on her recent blog note on the subject.

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  Among the survival strategies home healthcare agencies are deploying in preparation for the enhanced competitive environment that will be generated by healthcare reform next year, the single most important strategy will be to develop the ability to exchange patient data efficiently, accurately and inexpensively with hospital and practice management EHR software…and do it before […]

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  Suture Health, Inc., provider of SutureSign, the new electronic signature network created by physician Michael Blackstone, announced on May 21 that the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod, a member of Cape Cod Healthcare, has selected SutureSign to streamline care order processing. Details are provided in this article about this home health software’s advantages […]

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  by Scott R. Herrmann Since the inception of social media, access to global information from news sources and from family and friends has become pervasive and instantaneous. Facebook has become the #1 social media application in the world, followed closely by Google + and Twitter. Over 400 million people a day log into their […]

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  by Liz Seegert A strategic commitment to technology is making Senior Home Care, Inc. a leading player in the Sunshine State. They are the first Florida home care agency to join that state’s health information exchange, a network of 22 providers that seamlessly share patient information – extending the continuum of care and lowering […]

  ContinuLink, LLC has announced a new software feature: LinkMail. Designed to help enhance communications within home health care agencies, the Boca Raton, Florida-based company says it has been designed to help improve patient care by eliminating the costly, inefficient games of phone tag and daisy chaining voice mails between office staff and field clinicians.

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  Several scenarios from Complete Home Health Care home health agency in Colorado are presented to illustrate the value of using CORHIO’s PatientCare 360®, a Web-based HIE tool that provides a longitudinal view of each patients’ medical history with information supplied by all of the hospitals, laboratories and public health entities connected to CORHIO, the […]

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  The author provides a personalized letter to his subscribers and readers  in which he sends good wishes for 2013 and a heartfelt reminder to:  “Never forget that the career you have chosen contributes to the entire nation’s well-being. ” And for this feat, he urges each of them to: “Take a moment to pat […]

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