Tag: Home Care
Advocacy: Time to get started
April 13, 2023Ryan Bullock
Q. What’s next for health care advocacy?
A. As discussed throughout this series, health care providers – experts and those with direct access to patients – have the responsibility to push and endorse policies that promote equitable care and remove the current barriers that are still found throughout our health care system.
However, our organization recognizes that true change and legislative success for health care access does not occur in a vacuum. We are...
Advocacy: Dive into patient needs
March 6, 2023Ryan Bullock
Q. What is the impact of advocacy in health care?
A. As a nation with the highest health care spend per capita, there’s no shortage of discussions regarding innovation and cost reduction. As health care providers, we’re uniquely positioned to see the impact on patient lives. Our position allows us to moderate proposed solutions and our voice has the power to impact change.
Whether insurance plans have developed innovative solutions to reduce costs immediately or have...
CitusHealth co-founder recognized by Crain’s
August 25, 2022HME News Staff
NEW YORK – Melissa Kozak, co-founder and president of CitusHealth, a digital health solutions provider for the home-based care industry, has been recognized as one of Crain’s New York Business’ 2022 Notable Healthcare Leaders. Kozak, a registered nurse, founded CitusHealth to enable better communication methods in health care. “CitusHealth is a reflection of the belief my team and I share that better tools are needed to provide comprehensive support to patients receiving care...
Reps push for more care in home
November 16, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and James Comer, R-Ky., have introduced the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 to give medically appropriate patients the option to leave the hospital and recover at home rather than being discharged to a skilled nursing facility, the only current option under Medicare. H.R. 5514 would provide a time-limited, cost-effective benefit that combines Medicare-covered skilled nursing and therapy with essential personal care, transportation, meal supports,...
Highmark Health taps into stay-at-home preferences
September 18, 2020Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
PITTSBURGH - Highmark Health recently expanded its Home Recovery Care program to two more hospitals in its network, boosted by the ongoing public health emergency that has increased the value of home care.
HRC originally launched at Allegheny Health Network in late 2019 as part of a joint venture between the payer and Contessa; it provides inpatient care in the home through telemedicine, providers and Contessa's technology for coordinating care.
“HRC gives us the opportunity...
Let's not wait until next time
March 27, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
I saw some back-and-forth on twitter between HME providers asking what the HME industry is like in Italy and the role it is playing in responding to the coronavirus pandemic there. So it was timely that I also saw an article in STAT about a paper published in NEJM Catalyst by a group of physicians at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo about what they've learned during this pandemic, and it reads like a warning.
“Western health care systems have been built around the concept...
HIDA launches homecare council
October 6, 2017HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Health Industry Distributors Association has formed a Home Care Channel Council, a new networking group in the home healthcare market. “The new council recognizes the importance of the home setting in health care,” said Mike Orscheln, 2017 HIDA chairman and CEO of Performance Health. “Our goal is to provide a forum for distributors and manufacturers to build and improve their channel strategies in the home care market.” Members of the council are Jackie...
24-Hour Care: Bridge the gap
June 26, 2017Brad Peterson
A. Providers play a vital role in the partnership of 24-hour care. By being a knowledgeable equipment resource, you can bridge the gap by providing input and training on equipment used over the 24-hour care period to stakeholders in an individual's care plan.Most of us have a level of awareness and knowledge about benefits associated with good care and the effects on an individual's respiration, pressure care, safe patient handling, posture and the various equipment solutions associated with undertaking...
24-Hour Care: Consider interlinked needs
May 23, 2017Brad Peterson
A. Tick, Tock, Tick. Consider all the pressure care, mobility, respiratory and positioning equipment available to your business. While many times we may only focus on pressure and posture care for a small portion of the day, gravity is on duty 24/7, 365, and your product offerings must consider the round-the-clock positioning and skin protection needs of the consumer.It's vital that pressure care is addressed both during lying and sitting over the 24-hour period, hence 24-hour care. Whether lying...
Post-acute care: The Internet of the 90s
March 17, 2016Liz Beaulieu, Editor
We hosted the Home Health Technology Summit earlier this week in New Orleans, and I had the event in the back of my mind when I was reading a New York Times article yesterday about South by Southwest, an “annual festival of tech, music, film, barbeque and tacos,” according to the newspaper. But mostly, tech.
If you're not familiar with the Technology Summit—we gathered a group of C-level execs in home care (home health, hospice, visiting nurse and HME) to examine the opportunities...