Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

ADHA names nursing adviser The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has appointed Karen Booth as its first chief clinical adviser for nursing. "I have always been dedicated to enhancing health outcomes for Australians, especially in primary and preventative care settings.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Delivered by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), the free virtualKIDS service connects families with a clinical nurse who helps determine the best care pathway for their children and their non-life-threatening health concerns.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

SeniorBridge is a home-based care organization that offers complex chronic care management for seniors. The organization’s care management team includes nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and caregivers. (NYSE: HUM) plans to close shop at most of its SeniorBridge locations before the end of year.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. The system also allows remote monitoring from a central command centre, nurse stations, and mobile devices.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2023

A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. A digital triage and consultation platform for use across primary and emergency care. A platform that integrates siloed data and automates manual workflows and employs analytics. Hypercare. Rose Health.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2022

For the longest time, home care providers were just trying to gain a foothold in the broader health care sector. Now times have changed, as home care services have proven to be an integral part of the overall system, especially during the public health emergency. Michael Slupecki, CEO of Griswold Home Care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Based on a media release, doctors and nurses at Hervey Bay Hospital are being prepared for the Queensland Telestroke Service pilot happening in the coming weeks. From October, residential aged care providers could start offering verbal or written monthly care statements voluntarily to their residents.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Comfort Keepers, a division of Sodexo, is an in-home care franchise that has over 700 locations across the world. Prior to being named the CEO of Comfort Keepers, Abdine served as the global head of corporate development and asset management with Sodexo Worldwide Home Care. The organization is an affiliate of St.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. Those patients are more likely to be high utilizers of services compared to traditional Medicare home health beneficiaries. It also leverages a cloud-based infrastructure and a fully integrated EMR.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2023

" The company says the HIPAA-compliant system can help patients avoid the skyrocketing costs of assisted living and in-home care and help address caregiver shortages, and claims the virtual caregiver offers better oversight and care coordination. "It's kind of like an extra person in the house. THE LARGER TREND.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Despite the rising cost of home care services, some high-end and concierge home care agencies have been able to maintain their market footholds. After years of increasing costs, the services costs across many senior care sectors have begun to stabilize.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr As technological innovations, AI and challenges in healthcare continue to grow, it’s imperative for healthcare leaders – especially clinical ones – to be digitally competent and step into the forefront of change with skills and expertise to support a better future.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The company oversees, coordinates and supervises care in the home. At the center of all of this is the belief that caregivers are an integral part of health care. During the conversation, Klein also talked about where sees home-based care business opportunities and how the company has been able to expand so rapidly.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. THE PROBLEM Saint Luke’s historically has had positive patient experience scores, but continuously strives to improve.

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

Pennant also acquired the Corpus Christi, Texas-based Nurses on Wheels, a provider of hospice services. “We Family Resource Home Care acquires Specialty Service Solutions The Liberty Lake, Washington-based Family Resource Home Care has acquired Specialty Service Solutions. It has over 3,000 team members.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health. If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of home care, what would it be? Transformative.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Hospital systems are now making a greater effort to collaborate with senior care providers – including those in home-based care – to elevate care delivery. Key players in this larger move to work more closely with senior care providers, or to integrate that care directly, are Kaiser Permanente and Trinity Health.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. We need more creativity around business models.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment. This is really the future of care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership One of the publicity issues home-based care faces is that most people dont even understand the difference between home health care and home care, much to the chagrin of industry veterans in both sectors. Each care type can augment the other, they believe.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Hero — a digital home-based care medication management platform — has teamed up with Henry Ford Health System. Through the partnership, Henry Ford’s in-home care patients will have access to Hero’s platform to help with their medication regimens. Additional reporting by Andrew Donlan.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 6, 2025

These major health systems are reevaluating their home-based care capabilities and partnerships, and leveraging technology and innovative care modelsincluding hospital-at-hometo enable more integrated and cost-efficient services. Thats the work that we’re doing. Maybe we can do three.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2021

health care is having a ‘Back to the Future’ moment, increasingly moving care delivery to where people live, which usually best suits their needs,” Dr. Payam Parvinchiha, SCAN’s vice president and medical director for integrated care, explained.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Meeting the care needs of Medicaid/dual-eligibles now and beyond 2025 will provide opportunities for home care and the health care industry to enhance care services supported by emerging technology and care innovations.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What started out as a very segmented industry is becoming more integrated, as larger companies acquire smaller ones in hopes to have more pieces of the care continuum puzzle in house. McCauley said the specialization of health care in the U.S. has actually helped the home-based care industry. “A

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Researchers at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine conducted a study in mid-2023 comparing 112 primary care clinicians who used Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot clinical documentation software with a control group of 103 clinicians who did not use the tool.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Spanning more than 200 care sites across the state, the organization unifies hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, behavioral health and employer health services. And the emergence of Big Tech is poised to disrupt how consumers find and get care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

That has proven to be the case as weve integrated the Idaho and Washington operations over the previous two quarters. The continued growth of the Avid platform is critical to meeting the rising demand for home care services nationwide, Christopher W. This deal marks Havencrests fifth transaction under Avid.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ryne Natzke, chief revenue officer, TrustCommerce , a Sphere company, a provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payments and security software AI, AI, and more AI! Adam McMullin, CEO, AvaSure , a market leader in virtual care Virtual care remains a hot topic at every healthcare conference I have attended in 2024.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care medicine has expanded significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, with increasing demand from patients and improved payment models – in some cases. Home health organizations have begun creating their own nursing pipelines due to this issue.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There is great opportunity in market growth, as more and more people are in need of home care services. We will look to grow capacity in the market through workforce solutions, efficiency and unique partnerships of care delivery and coordination, all driving more market growth.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Highmark, AHN and Contessa in 2020 announced a partnership to launch a home-based acute care model for Highmark health plan members. Since then, the model has adapted to offer hospitalized patients an alternative to skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities following their discharge.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2021

As COO and founder of Concierge Home Care, Linda Murphy leads an organization dedicated to improving the lives of seniors throughout Florida, assisting with the management of their illnesses while optimizing their healthy behaviors to allow them to remain in their homes for as long as possible. She asked me to come work for her.

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