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NewsDay Tuesday: Verifying Visits at the Point of Care – The Importance of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: May 13, 2014
The benefits of using mobile technology in home health care are numerous.  Among the list of benefits for a home health agency is accountability through Electronic Visit Verification (EVV). Why EVV Matters Accountability is currently a hot button issue in health care, where many advocacy groups, agencies and health care providers are... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: Future of Home Health Project Launched
Author: Emily White
Date: May 6, 2014
The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (the Alliance) – a non-profit, 501(c)(3) foundation committed to research and education about the value of home health care to patients and the U.S. health care system – today launched a research-based strategic planning project on the future of home health care... Keep Reading
ICD-10-CM is BACK in the News
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: May 2, 2014
Late yesterday afternoon, CMS (the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services) broke their silence and announced that the new ICD-10-CM implementation date will be October 1, 2015. This information comes on the heels of passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 on April 1, which delayed the... Keep Reading
Home Health Agencies Prefer Cloud-Based Software Solutions
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: April 30, 2014
In the realm of home health, efficient software is a key factor in running a successful, profitable agency. Even with solid policies in place, near-perfect execution of patient care and documentation processing – there are numerous business aspects to a home health agency – and efficiently managing each one affects... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: Bionics to Track Your Health
Author: Robert Lee Hotz
Date: April 29, 2014
Imagine a digital tattoo that transmits skin temperature; a transparent sensor on a contact lens that tests for glaucoma; a pliable pacemaker wrapped around a beating heart; and an implant that controls pain after surgery, then dissolves harmlessly when it is no longer needed. Each one is an experiment under way... Keep Reading
The Future of Healthcare Delivery is in the Home
Author: John Olajide, Founder and CEO, Axxess
Date: April 24, 2014
Rapid advances in healthcare technology and the economics of healthcare delivery are creating unprecedented opportunities for more healthcare services to be delivered in the comfort of patients’ homes. And not a moment too soon, because all studies point to growing pressures on our healthcare system as... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: Raising the Bar for Elderly Care at Home
Author: Ronan Rooney
Date: April 22, 2014
Thanks to decades of advancements in medicine, humans have a longer life expectancy than ever before. Consider that the oldest living person today – Misawo Okawa at 116 years old – was not expected to see her 45th birthday when she was born in 1898. While super-centenarians like Okawa are... Keep Reading
The Home Health Care Agency Website: A Marketing Necessity
Author: Merrily Orsini, MSSW, Executive Vice President
Date: April 17, 2014
Certainly by now all home health care agencies have a website. But, is your website serving as an effective referral engagement tool? Are you using the website to attract and screen employees? Are you, in fact, up to date on the power of having a good website, and all that... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: Home – The Best Place For Health Care
Author: Joint Commission
Date: April 15, 2014
Home Care is the Patient-Preferred Setting Just about everyone agrees: the home is the best setting for providing health care to increasing numbers of patients. Not only can care be provided less expensively in the home, evidence suggests that home care is a key step toward achieving optimal health outcomes for many... Keep Reading
Mobile Technology for Home Health Reporting is Here
Author: Merrily Orsini, MSSW, Executive Vice President
Date: April 10, 2014
Welcome to the future! Mobile technology for home health reporting is here. This addition to functionality should get you excited about the efficiencies, the better care your patients will receive and the increase in job satisfaction by your nurses and therapists in the field. However, there is cause for more... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: Health Care’s Future is in the Home
Author: Michael Essany
Date: April 8, 2014
Patient care is coming “home” in the U.S., says the team at Axxess Technology. In a new report published this week, the company says rapid advances in technology and new ways health care is provided to patients have created new opportunities to receive care at home. The health... Keep Reading
NewsDay Tuesday: ICD-10-CM Implementation Delayed at Least One Year
Author: Jennifer Gibson Osburn RN, HCS-D ICD-10-CM, COS-C, Senior Clinical Consultant
Date: April 1, 2014
Yesterday the US Senate passed a bill, HR 4302, which delays the implementation of ICD-10 for at least a year. The 64 to 35 Senate vote came on the heels of the US House of Representatives’ passage last Thursday to push the implementation date back to at least October 1,... Keep Reading
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