Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Home care franchise giant Seniors Helpers entered this year with big ambitions, partly fueled by its April 2021 acquisition by Advocate Aurora Enterprises. For our latest episode of “Disrupt,” Home Health Care News caught up with Ross to learn more about Senior Helpers’ plans in 2022 and its relationship with Advocate.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2021

ECH Dandelion, a care hotel operated by South Australia-based home care provider Enabling Confidence at Home, has been equipped with a technology platform for aged care communication and delivery from health IT provider Rauland Australia. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ON THE RECORD.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. PORTLAND, ME, June 9, 2022 – LeadingAge , the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, announces the release of the National Healthcare at Home Best Practices and Future Insights Study results. Initial top-line findings from the study include:?.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. High-quality research is needed to advance the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sustainability of our healthcare system was an interesting topic at Day 2 of the 42 nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California, expressed the concern that “[T]he status quo is an existential threat to our healthcare system.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Training has quickly jumped to the forefront as a notable strategy for care providers to stand apart, especially as they look to other industries for talent they can recruit into care positions. Survey respondents included 97 professionals who work for organizations that provide home care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Care Advantage Inc. has acquired the Reston, Virginia-based Lighthouse Healthcare Inc., a private-pay personal care company. Care Advantage CEO Tim Hanold told Home Health Care News that Lighthouse “complements” what the company is already accomplishing in Northern Virginia. “We’ve and North Carolina.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“In an increasingly competitive talent market, the attraction and retention of high performing diverse talent is key, and Adam’s depth of expertise will help us achieve this strategy so we can continue to deliver the highest quality of care to our patients and their families.”. Mission Healthcare appoints chief clinical officer.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2022

Androscoggin announces Care & Comfort acquisition. The Maine-based Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice has announced the acquisition of Care & Comfort, a home and behavioral health care company also based in Maine. It is the home-based care arm of the BayCare Health System. “We

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now, being partners with the large MA plans and large hospital systems, via our Contessa acquisition, we can drive our risk-taking solutions into traditional home health and hospice, as well as increase our market size into high-acuity home care. Consumers expect health care to come to them. Nasdaq: AMED). * * *.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

IBPClin has conducted 160+ industry-sponsored research studies, enrolling over 7000 participants across 12 Brazilian states, and offers telemedicine, remote monitoring, and home care assistance for patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2022

January 2022 marked two years since the outbreak of COVID-19, with the healthcare system still working to adjust to a very challenging new reality. However, these challenges have served as a catalyst for important shifts within the healthcare industry, some of which are poised to be a significant part of the 2022 infusion landscape.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. As a healthcare provider, how can you best ensure that you’re well-equipped to handle expansions in remote care scenarios? .

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients managing cardiology and vascular diseases expressed the highest praise for quality of care using videoconferencing (97%, virtually all patients polled, saying quality care was at least as good or better than face-to-face care. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Abt Associates is currently recruiting a wide range of home health stakeholders—for example, providers, patient advocates, and methodologists/researchers with expertise in areas such as performance measurement, quality of care, and health equity—to participate in a Technical Expert (..)

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shared health data is the connective tissue that brings together patient medical histories with other social determinants of health (SDoH) data, but it must be the right kind of data: That which reflects whole person care and embraces a co-designed approach to deliver high-quality outcomes.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM) “is the medical voice for long term care in California. We stand for quality care in nursing homes. CALTCM’s Board of Directors approved this White Paper.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. The fear of contracting illnesses such as Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs), like sepsis, is a real and legitimate concern. Bringing Hospital-grade Equipment to the Home.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first released its home health proposed payment rule for 2022, its nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model was recognized as a potential game-changer for the home health industry.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Staffing in nursing homes has a substantial impact on the quality of care and outcomes residents experience. The 5-page QSO goes on to address: Weekend Nurse Staffing Nursing Home Staff Turnover. Linking Employee Identifiers.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

2] They found that the home model met the quality of care standards comparable to those expected of in-hospital programs. Also, "On an intention-to-treat basis, patients treated in hospital-at-home had a shorter length of stay (3.2 3] Realizing the potential advantages of hospital-at-home programs, several large U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity asked physicians an important question on trust: that is, whether telemedicine could bolster trust with patients, especially those who have long been under-served by the healthcare system. For the majority of patients, telemedicine is now a part of the new normal in healthcare,” the report asserts.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 11, 2022

David Causby, the president and CEO of Kindred at Home, will be taking the helm of the new standalone company. Gentiva Health Services was the name of a home-based care company that was acquired by Kindred Healthcare in 2015 for $1.8 Kindred at Home, of course, was then later acquired by Humana. “We

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

Through their lens on real estate, JLL wove three themes from the consumer poll: Location and convenience matter most to patients, and health care providers can leverage patient preferences to inform site selection especially for scarce facility types. ” she added.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

He makes the transition from the provider side to private equity geared with decades of health care experience – and years of at-home care experience. Loporcaro led Landmark – an in-home medical care provider – until it was eventually sold to UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum last year.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He also explains why he believes GLP-1 is a once-in-a-century lifechanging drug, the power of AI to lower healthcare costs, and why hiring the right people ‘’makes magic happen.’’ 26:27 The future of AI in healthcare Justin said AI has the potential to lower the cost of healthcare over time.

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Etactics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

You don't need to be in the field to have heard the phrase "healthcare hero" over and over. They were on the front lines through one of the most challenging times to be a healthcare worker. Restaurants like Chipotle were giving away free meals to healthcare workers. via Horizon Home Care and Hospice.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 45% of older people did not feel personally connected to the virtual health care provider. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic. 25% had difficult seeing or hearing the clinicians. 24% had privacy concerns.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Wes Little: I have had the great opportunity to have worked on the provider side and the technology side of home-based care. Data analytics are increasingly important for providers as health care continues to shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based care. Little: Absolutely.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Texas supports the Texas Healthcare Learning Collaborative Portal, an interactive repository of data from Medicaid MCOs and other sources.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Josh explains why telehealth is still stuck in 2020, how technology can strip the humanity from healthcare, and why the missing element in telehealth today is social determinants of health. 10:21 Poorly applied technology can strip the humanity from healthcare Josh said the focus has to be on the patients, not technology.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Jason Banks, VP of Post Acute Business Development at nVoq and Jennifer Maxwell, CEO of Maxwell Healthcare Associates. Home Health Care News: Can you provide a brief background for the audience on yourselves and your company?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2022

There has been increasing interest in the role of AI to support disease diagnosis, improve system efficiency and enable at-home care. Dominic Cushnan, head of AI imaging, NHS AI Lab, said: “Unfair and biased models can lead to inconsistent levels of care, a serious problem in these critical circumstances. WHY IT MATTERS.

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