— National private duty franchise corporation “Seniors Helping Seniors” has selected ClearCare Online as its EMR, scheduling, and billing application. — Care at Hand introduces new Chief Nursing and Quality Officer

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By Tim Rowan Consolo Services Group, the Lexington, Kentucky-based provider of fully-integrated, SaaS-based health IT solutions for the hospice and palliative care industry, announced in July that it has completed a $12.6 million financing through private equity firm Bluff Point Associates.

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By Tim Rowan Healthcare analytics company Care at Hand announced this week that it has raised $560,000.

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The 2016 final rule establishing a new hospice payment system is now law. We asked a 20-year hospice veteran nurse exactly what it means to providers.

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  New kinds of complaints from field clinicians have been coming in almost daily to Natick Visiting Nurse Association management ever since the Boston area non-profit home health agency implemented a new point-of-care software system from Brightree. Nurses and therapists have told CIO Wendy Cofran, “I can no longer use work as an excuse to […]

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  People at the NAHC meeting were wondering why only a few sales people were left in the exhibit hall booth Tuesday after top executives of Relias Learning rushed back to headquarters in Cary, North Carolina on Monday evening. The answer came Tuesday morning when HCTR received the following press release. October 21, 2014 – […]

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A range of vendors and new products are spotlighted in this article, as a preview to their presence and activity at the upcoming NAHC Annual Meeting, Oct. 19-22, 2014, in Phoenix, AZ. Companies represented include Brightree, Philips, and the Procura Group of Companies. Brightree will demonstrate a new point-of-care app for the iPad that has […]

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. Oct. 14, 2014 – PlayMaker CRM, the nation’s leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software for  the  post-acute care industry, announced today it has secured a significant growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners. The capital will be used to further expand development of PlayMaker’s CRM product with a continued emphasis on mobile functionality […]

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Everyone knows that sending an email is as secure as sending a postcard through the mail. Anyone who wants to read your “Having a great time, wish you were here” message can do so with impunity and anonymity. In healthcare, however, the content of email messages is usually more personal, more revealing, and more, well, […]

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According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets, Kindred Healthcare Inc. (KND:NYSE) finally found a big enough diamond to convince Gentiva Health Services Inc. (NASDAQ: GTIV) to put the ring on its finger. It will not be a long engagement; Gentiva shareholders are expected to approve the proposal in time for […]

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