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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

PurposeCare — a Lorient Capital-backed provider of home care and home health services — has acquired six agencies. The company purchased Purpose Home Health, Alliance Home Health Services, A1 Home Health Care and A1 Nursing Care, Newsome Home Health Care and Honor Home Health.

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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.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. How has home-based care advanced over the past few years, from your perspective?

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2024

1 spot is Vytalize Health, an accountable care organization (ACO) and value-based care platform that works with physicians and primary care practices. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. It owns Home Instead, one of the largest home care franchises in the country.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Tech-enabled home healthcare provider Speedoc has tied up with Parkway Shenton, the primary care arm of IHH Healthcare Singapore, to expand care options for patients. The company continues to seek collaborations with both private and public healthcare providers to expand its mobile home care model.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 30, 2024

CenterWell President Sanjay Shetty: Its Time To Give Home Health Its Due (March 12) As the head of Humanas (NYSE: HUM) health care services division which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy Dr. Sanjay Shetty has been enthusiastic about the power of home health care.

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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. The demand will be high for a patient care model and a care delivery system that is focused in the patient’s home,” Brown said.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 9, 2024

What You Should Know: – HarmonyCares , a provider of value-based in-home longitudinal care, raises $200M to make its integrated, physician-led in-home care model available to more vulnerable patients nationwide. Interdisciplinary Care Team: Beyond physicians, HarmonyCares offers a comprehensive care team.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2023

As home-based care continues to be the preferred care delivery method, it follows that companies delivering these services, as well as vendors in the space, would see growth as a result. Upward Health — Hauppauge, New York — Rank: 7 — Growth: 30,808% — Upward Health is an in-home primary care and behavioral health care company.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

The interview took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021. Kunu has worked in many different healthcare and home-based health roles. In 2010, he started Senior Solutions Home Care inspired with a motivation to help his own aging grandparents. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2022

But as the home health industry changed, he saw increased opportunity on the non-medical home care side. Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Ballew hopes the private-duty home care provider grows more organically than it has in the previous two years. Now you’re in the non-medical home care world.

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

(NYSE: HUM) has made “substantial progress” toward scaling its value-based home health model, executives say. The advancements have come as the Louisville, Kentucky-based health and wellness company adds to its rapidly growing senior-focused primary care network. Humana is obviously bullish on its in-home care strategy.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2024

“This ensures comprehensive care for the client and involves all parties in the process, maintaining consistency and quality. The GUIDE Model also introduces families and clients to home care, keeping them safer at home and reducing hospital admissions.” Lifespark, headquartered in St.

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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. "On our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Nice Healthcare’s model is not a traditional one, but it does rely heavily on at-home care. The home-based primary care company sells itself directly to businesses. He hates the term “value-based care.” He loves that more companies are adopting primary care at home.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The New Franchise Owners Who Have Made Home Care Their Second Act (Aug. Many of them have been able to use skills from their past to set themselves up for success as home care franchise owners at companies like Home Instead and Seniors Helping Seniors. No one understands this better than VillageMD.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: Included Health announced a new partnership with a national provider of high acuity and complex in-home care, DispatchHealth to launch a new virtual-to-home, care model. Included Health and DispatchHealth will supplement care that begins online with on-demand, in-home support.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Kang: 40 years ago I was a geriatrician up in Boston, and actually did home visits before anyone ever knew what a home visit was. For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. I think that was a big change for home health agencies.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2023

FirstLight Home Care expands franchise support center team, makes leadership changes FirstLight Home Care has made several leadership changes and additions to its franchise support team. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2024

“One thing that the study demonstrates is that being homebound is a very powerful predictor of poor outcomes, whether it’s emergency department visits, or inpatient admissions into the hospital, or skilled-nursing facility admissions or death,” Leff said.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people still consider home health and home care as sectors completely separate from hospital-at-home care. As more care comes into the home, home-based care organizations are finding ways to become involved – whether through partnerships or proprietary programs. Nasdaq: AMED).

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“I am extremely grateful to the entire VHP team for their extensive capital, operational and strategic support, which was instrumental in enhancing the growth and success of AOC during our partnership,” Angels of Care CEO Jessica Riggs said in a statement. It also backs Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But in addition to technology innovations, I’m also hoping we will hear about other people and process topics such as how to set up virtual care teams and how to rethink primary care physician compensation to better align around adoption of automation and team-based care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Care coordination has become a buzzy term in home-based care of late. Generally, care coordination aims to both connect home care to the broader health care ecosystem and close gaps in care for the patients. Help at Home has also put a priority on caregiver empowerment and engagement.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“In support of the launch of Walgreens Health, we continue to make strategic investments in pharmacy and health care solutions that can improve care coordination and health outcomes, while lowering overall costs,” Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer said in a press release. Brewer joined Walgreens from Starbucks in January.

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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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

CVS Health has multiple segments, including retail, pharmacy, insurance through Aetna and health care services. Health care services is where the company took a stab at home-based health care for the first time. Other home-based care is becoming popular too. Home-based care for younger Americans.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2023

(Nasdaq: WBA) has been building out its health care delivery arm – which includes home-based care capabilities – for some time now, just like its retailer competitors. Pairing primary care and home-based care capabilities is a way to drive value-based care moving forward. Under Walgreens’ U.S.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Chronic disease management, mental health, even a lot of acute care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

The company’s communities included nursing homes, assisted living and more. Over the last 10 years, Parker has expanded into the home- and community-based care space. “It’s In order to add another layer of care, Parker partnered with Visiting Nurse Association Health Group in 2022.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Medical Management (USMM) is a home-based management services organization that serves 35,000 patients per month in 35 markets across 11 states. Outside of its primary care assets, its home health asset is Pinnacle Home Health, and it operates hospice through Grace and Comfort. The Michigan-based U.S.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

HUM (NYSE) leaders say the investments they’ve made in value-based payment models and at-home care capabilities continue to pay off. It continues to leverage its home health engine – CenterWell Home Health – to deliver on those value-based care initiatives. “In Humana Inc.

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