Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement
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APRIL 24, 2023
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The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home
Health Populi
AUGUST 5, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated many trends and new workflows for patients and consumers, and health care providers, too. The convergence of basic needs like hygiene and safety, financial and health security, and living-working-learning-and-cooking-at-home has turbocharged a migration of more acute care delivered at home.
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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI
Health Populi
MAY 5, 2022
In this Health Populi post, I’ll discuss the research group’s assessment of CPG shifts of consumer packaged goods through my lens on health/care, everywhere — especially, in this case, the home. IRI has identified eight key CPG shifts forecasted to persist in 2023…these include, Increased at-home consumption.
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No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JULY 19, 2023
For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Note its 2015 $72.5 Market fragmentation, for one.
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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2020
I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. In that initial vision, Philips already envisioned care settings outside of hospitals.
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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Expanding value-based care, nationally. is getting fuzzier by the day.
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Irrational Exuberance for Hospital-To-Home? Care About the Caregivers, the House, the Fridge.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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Key industry partners funnel Medically Home another $110M to deliver acute care at home
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2022
Key industry partners funnel Medically Home another $110M to deliver acute care at home. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 16:29.
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Time To Travel And Wait In Health Care: The Opportunity For Self-Care At Home
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
What industry compels its “consumers” to wait longer and travel further for services more than any other in a person’s daily life? That would be health care, a report from Altarum notes. The annual opportunity cost for travel and wait time in health care is $89 billion, Altarum estimated.
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Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "The Advanced Care at Home Program does not limit the role of nurses in hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Technology transformation in home care must and will accelerate
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 10, 2022
The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. And last, but not least, the worsening staffing shortage, noted for years throughout the older adult service industry, is now a full-blown crisis. The inefficient business model of home care needs to end. And that's just today.
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Mayo Clinic, Kaiser put $100M toward hospital-at-home care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 14, 2021
Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente announced this week that they will collaborate to build capacity for hospital-at-home care. Medically Home's medical command center is staffed by clinicians and community-based care teams integrated with a patient's electronic health record. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Industry Voices—Recognizing the mental health medical home in addiction care
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 1, 2021
Industry Voices—Recognizing the mental health medical home in addiction care. Thu, 04/01/2021 - 10:23.
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More than a decade ago -- a look at the Future of Home Care Technology
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 13, 2023
An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. As seen in 2012, the future of home care would transform, supported by software.
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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini
Health Populi
JULY 27, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for patients-as-consumers, seeking lower-touch health care services at home or closer-to-home in community health hubs. This graph compares consumers’ demands by digital health channels for accessing various points of care across personal health care life-flows.
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More Consumers Expect Health/Care Companies to Be Purpose-Ful Versus All Other Industries
Health Populi
APRIL 5, 2023
In the latest Ipsos look into the future of “Purpose,” we find that consumers look most to health and pharmacy companies for shared values, compared with other industries people patronize such as food and grocery, technology and banks. In the diagram, Ipsos calls out “AI and disinformation” and “Communication.”
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Maribel Health Raises $25M Series A to Create the Future of Advanced Care at Home
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 24, 2023
Maribel combines deep operating expertise with novel technology to help its partners design, build, and operate advanced clinical care capabilities in the home and community, including hospital-at-home, to sustainably expand total system capacity. Maribel launched in late 2021 as part of General Catalyst’s “hatch” program.
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Tech-enabled home care 2012-2021 -- are we there yet?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations.
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Manatt Deepens Home-Based and Long-Term Care Capabilities With Prominent Health Leader in D.C.
Digital Health Global
MAY 4, 2023
A seasoned health care leader with a record of success in both the public and private sectors, Banach leverages his deep understanding of home-based, hospice and palliative care; Medicare and Medicaid law and policy; and health care delivery to increase access to care and create a more equitable health system for communities throughout the country.
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Careficient Acquires Home Health, Hospice, Home Care, Palliative and RCM Solutions from Net Health
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 12, 2023
a leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Net Health ’s EMR line of home health, hospice, home care, and palliative solutions and RCM services (collectively, “home health and hospice”). Careficient Inc. , About Careficient. About Net Health .
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Industry news in brief
DigitalHealth
JANUARY 13, 2023
This Digital Health News industry roundup covers a care home admin platform saving time and money and a LifeStart resuscitator trolley for Lister Hospital.
Home-Based Care for the Baby Boom is at Risk – But Operating Changes Can Shore up the Industry’s Economic Model
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 16, 2022
And, naturally, such a significant generation will demand significant care as they age—with a resounding preference for support in the comfort of their own homes. But will high-quality in-home care be an option? This dynamic leaves the industry with a herculean task. And Bradford isn’t alone in this sentiment.
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The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 26, 2020
Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. "Our research staff traveled directly to patients' homes for the initial connection," explained Spooner.
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InterSystems Helps Pria Improve Patient Outcomes and Streamline At-Home Care Delivery with Health Connect Cloud
Digital Health Global
APRIL 11, 2023
Cloud-based patient-centric care platform integrates with electronic medical records to manage chronic care CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS With Pria, providers, patients, and family caregivers can access a suite of health management tools to help them monitor and manage all aspects of their prescribed care plans.
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery.
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MedArrive Raises $8 Million Investment to Bring More Care Into the Home
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 24, 2023
New funding led by Cobalt Ventures will support continued business growth and expansion of health plan relationships Mobile-integrated care management platform company, MedArrive, today announced $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures , a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC).
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Epic, Zoom and mobile app help at-risk clinic volunteers deliver care from home
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 30, 2020
There are around 200 volunteers at the clinic who care for an uninsured population of primarily Latinx patients. The ripples of COVID-19 hit especially hard in this community, where many lost jobs in the hospitality and tourism industries. ” VIM staff decided to implement work from home with their clinical volunteers.
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Choosing the Right Electronic Visit Verification Solution for Your Home Care Agency
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 3, 2019
On December 2016, the 21st Century CURES Act was signed into law, resulting in new regulations for the home health industry. The CURES Act mandates the use of electronic visit verification, or EVV, for all Medicaid-funded personal care services.
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Whatever Happened to Tech-Enabled Home Care?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Past venture capital investment in home care technology boggles the mind. It seems only yesterday that Tech-Enabled Home Care was published – with that wonderful Forbes graphic “Why VCs Care More About Home Care”. They cared, all right – if that money was an indicator. But were they smart?
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United States Patient at Home Testing Kits Market Report 2023-2031: Empowering Self-Care Revitalizing Health Management – ResearchAndMarkets.com
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 17, 2023
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “United States Patient at Home Testing Kits Market Report and Forecast 2023-2031” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The comprehensive ensemble might encompass testing devices, sample collection instruments, reagents, and precise usage guidelines.
Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience
Health Populi
JULY 7, 2023
. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” See my Hot Points below, discussing my views on the morphing of health care real estate from Pill Hill and inpatient hospitals to the home and closer-to-home sites. ” you might ask.
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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2021
Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints. “Self-care is a pandemic priority,” NCS intuited from their data. The pandemic pantry also finds most U.S. consumers).
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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.
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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 27, 2022
Home health care fills an important niche in ensuring quality, affordable care for a wide range of patients. While these are two large factors behind the increased demand, other factors are driving the increase, including the technological advances that enable better remote care.
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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2022
However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S. Consumer Technology One-Year Industry Forecast, 2018-2023. Underneath the overall industry spend of $503 billion, a 0.2%
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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time
Health Populi
DECEMBER 27, 2021
In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.
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U.S. Healthcare Industry Races Toward Digital Future
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
finds that healthcare providers and health insurance companies are increasing their use of digital health tools to enhance the efficiency, accessibility and quality of care. healthcare industry,” said Bob Krohn, partner, Healthcare, for ISG. The 2023 ISG Provider Lens Healthcare Digital Services report for the U.S.
How Business Can Bolster Determinants of Health: The Marmot Review for Industry
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2022
It is time this changed,” asserts the report, The Business of Health Equity: The Marmot Review for Industry , sponsored by Legal & General in collaboration with University College London (UCL) Institute of Health Equity, led by Sir Michael Marmot. They coin the acronym for this ESHG.
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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, will give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times. THINK: cars, comms, and care.
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Spencer Health Solutions and Perigon Pharmacy 360 Announce Collaboration to Bring Innovative, In-Home Engagement Technology to High-Touch Pharmacy Care
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
This agreement will expand the reach of its innovative, in-home digital medication adherence-promoting technology with the help of Perigon’s existing end-to-end, specialty pharmacy support programs for patients living with rare, chronic, and complex conditions. For more information, visit www.perigonpharmacy.com.
We Are Stuck On Band-Aids, Hygiene, and Self-Care: Morning Consult’s Most Trusted Brands 2022
Health Populi
JUNE 20, 2022
We are stuck on Band-Aids and hooked on hygiene and self-care according to the Most Trusted Brands 2022 study from Morning Consult. Home Depot. A particularly interesting brand-trust story in our health/care ecosystem is for Band-Aid. In 2022, the most trusted brands in the United States were. CVS Health (pharmacy).
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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
COVID-19 is re-shaping all industries, especially health care. And the pharma industry is challenged along with other health care sectors. Expanding support services, especially as more care moves into patients’ hands as self-care in the home. in May and June 2020.
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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health
Health Populi
MARCH 9, 2021
Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.
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WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 30, 2023
By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas. As we looked to strengthen our services offerings, Corridor emerged as an ideal partner.
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