by H. Carol Saul Almost fifteen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted a final rule requiring home health agencies (HHAs) to post surety bonds in the amount of $50,000, or 15% of the annual amount received from Medicare, whichever was greater. That regulation quickly faced opposition by Congress and by […]
HomecareCRM has announced that it will demonstrate new software features at next week’s NAHC Annual Meeting and will discuss an upcoming release of a native mobile app, for iOS and Android, for its customer relationship management software product. The company says the new app will complement its existing HTML 5 mobile offering. New features are indicated in […]
Aiming to help its customers produce better patient outcomes, Thornberry LTD has launched further enhancements to its automated care plan software. These latest additions to the documentation options within NDoc Care Pilot™ offer clinicians the ability to further customize patient care plans with specific statements tailored to an individual’s unique care needs, the company announced […]
Schaumburg, IL and Springfield, MO – CellTrak Technologies Inc. announced this week that they have executed a new patent licensing agreement for mobile applications with HEALTHCAREfirst. This article touches on the two companies’ relationships and plans to improve new applications for serving home health and hospice market and service needs.
According to Health Data Management, Allscripts is actively entertaining offers from private-equity firms for a leveraged buyout to take the healthcare IT company private. The Chicago-based hospital, physician practice and home healthcare software developer’s unexpected move followed two recent negative events–strife within the Board of Directors and failure to win a $302 million contract. Details […]
We asked HCTR readers last week to tell us whether their recent change from paper documentation to a clinical point-of-care system improved documentation time, left it about the same or lengthened it. The numbers are interesting (37.5% said shorter time; 50% said longer time; 12.5% said about the same) but the details you offered in the questionnaire’s comments section tell the whole story. Here are your quotes, without comment, editing only for grammar and clarity.
With mobile technology continuing to become more pervasive and relevant within the healthcare continuum, put Booth #1528 on your dance card for this month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Schaumburg (Chicago), Illinois-based CellTrak will be demonstrating new cell-based product releases and enhancements for teams of mobile clinicians and home health aides. Details are provided in this […]
by Audrey Kinsella The upcoming Connected Health Symposium, sponsored by Boston’s Partners HealthCare, may inadvertently go unnoticed because it is scheduled concurrently with the NAHC Annual Meeting, but that would be unfortunate. Titled “Innovations to Build Value, Accountable Care, and Patient Engagement,” the October 25/26 confab will present dozens of high-level talks and presentations on […]
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 […]
Procura announced Wednesday that Procura Mobile, described as a multi-platform mobile application, is now available on BlackBerry OS7 and Android. Support for Apple iOS is planned for late 2012. Details about this application’s capabilities and uses as a home healthcare mobile app are discussed in this article.
