By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. As of January 13, 2018, home health agencies must comply with new Conditions of Participation (CoPs). Now is the time to review interpretive guidelines and to be prepared to demonstrate compliance during surveys. New Conditions of Participation (CoPs) of the Medicare Program for home health require agencies to have internal […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report DATELINE ORLANDO — A welcome new format by Lincoln Healthcare Leadership treated this year’s Homecare 100 participants to a series of expert panels focused on the issues of greatest concern to Healthcare at Home providers and the vendors that service them. In the past, inspirational, […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report In order to reduce identity theft, especially against senior citizens, Medicare has finally decided to stop using social security numbers on Medicare ID cards. Pursuant to the Social Security Act, which has always banned the use of social security numbers for identification by any […]
Two acquisitions in health -focused software companies are reported on in this week’s HCTR article– 1) Mediware® Acquires MEDTranDirect™; 2) Netsmart Acquires HomeCare Accounting Solutions Mediware® Acquires MEDTranDirect™ LENEXA, Kansas—January 25, 2018 — Mediware Information Systems, Inc., a portfolio company of TPG Capital, and the parent company of Kinnser Software, announced this week that […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report CMS contractor Abt Associates is soliciting nominations for patients with current or past experience with Home Health Agency Services to participate on a Technical Expert Panel. Caregivers of such patients can also be nominated. Abt explains that patients and their caregivers are being sought […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report, and Elizabeth Zink Pearson, Esq. When you look at the entire landscape of Medicare regulations, a cloud parts and regulators’ ultimate goal appears. CMS is trying to push the entire Post-Acute Care sector toward patient-centered care, patient engagement, patient outcomes. According to home health attorney […]
Vendor Watch: Patient Recruitment Tool Boost Connects Agencies to their Inactive Nurses and Caregivers to Address Industry-Wide Recruitment Pains in Home Healthcare (January 23, New York, NY) – Swift Shift, a mobile-first workforce management platform for the home healthcare industry, is launching Boost – a recruitment solution for home healthcare agencies to address the nursing […]
Albuquerque, NM – January 15, 2018 – UnityBPO, a provider of health care IT services, today announced a partnership with The Visiting Nurse Service of New York to assist with the transition and implementation of their Electronic Health Record. UnityBPO will provide clinical application managed services as well as deliver our UnityWithinTM Platform, a comprehensive […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report If you have office PCs that are suddenly unable to boot up, it may be Microsoft’s fault, not yours or that of some hacker in Russia. The software behemoth announced on January 9 that it was canceling its January 8 Windows 10 upgrade because […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar on Review and Correct Reports for Home Health Agencies. [Details in this short news story cover the intended audience involved in the healthcare at home industry, date, time, purpose, and webinar registration information.] […]
