Tag: Outcomes
Encore launches new vent service model
June 7, 2022HME News Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Encore Healthcare has launched a new service line to help HME providers manage ventilator compliance and outcomes by combining its Nexus software with companion tele-respiratory services. The idea for the new service stemmed from the shortage of RTs that providers are facing and the need for clinical oversight in their vent management models. “It’s Essentially Ventilator Management in a Box,” said Ray Gregg, BS, CRT, RPSGT, Encore’s vice president...
Clinical Outcomes: Own the home
April 13, 2022Zach Gantt
Q. How can I leverage my new expertise with outcomes-based models for payer contracts?
A. It’s about continuing to manage goals and broadening outcomes. Payers have members, not patients. That means your perspective in the home has to expand beyond the disease (like COPD) to factors that influence overall health. Are there other factors, such as poorly managed or undiagnosed co-morbidities, that need to be raised to a physician? Are there social factors, such as lack of transportation,...
Draft assessment questions impact of CPAP therapy
April 19, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Published studies mostly do not support that CPAP therapy affects long-term, clinically important outcomes, according to a 155-page draft technology assessment prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Specifically, with low strength of evidence, randomized controlled trials do not demonstrate that CPAP therapy affects all-cause mortality, various cardiovascular outcomes, changes in psychological measures...
Numotion adds chief medical officer
April 5, 2021HME News Staff
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Numotion has appointed Tara Kersten, M.D., as chief medical officer. Kersten will provide Numotion with strategic clinical advice, support advocacy efforts and lend her expertise to outcomes studies. “We are excited to welcome Dr. Kersten at Numotion,” said Mike Swinford, CEO. “She is uniquely positioned to help the company become an ever-more-essential partner to our customers, physicians and referral partners, and we...
U.S. Rehab refreshes FMA dashboard
March 15, 2019HME News Staff
WATERLOO, Iowa - U.S. Rehab is in the final stages of releasing a new dashboard for its Functional Mobility Assessment tool, according to a blog post on its website. The new dashboard will have enhanced ease-of-use, more clearly defined graphics and menu selections, advanced diagnoses choices and more up-to-date demographic selections. U.S. Rehab says more details will be announced soon. More than 2,800 unique U.S. Rehab members and rehab institutions have now participated in the FMA outcomes program,...
Summit snapshots on interoperability, M&A and outcomes
September 23, 2016Liz Beaulieu, Editor
We'll have two stories in our HME Newswire on Monday about different sessions at this week's HME News Business Summit.
(Don't tell anyone, but here are the links to those stories now: http://www.hmenews.com/article/providers-need-be-better and http://www.hmenews.com/article/providers-ask-what-s-next.)
But there was so much good stuff from the Summit (stuff—real technical term, I know), I've also strung together some quotables from other sessions here.
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NHIA finalizes data definitions
February 26, 2016HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Home Infusion Association has released its final set of Standard Definitions for Patient Outcomes Data to establish national benchmarks. The definitions, developed by a volunteer task force, include: adverse drug reaction, emergency department use, unplanned hospitalization, and medication error. "By collecting uniform data, the home and specialty infusion industry will take an important step toward describing and quantifying the value of home infusion as a critical...
Medtrade Spring preview: Seize opportunity to be relevant
February 12, 2016Jeff Rowe
LAS VEGAS-The HME industry certainly provides significant value to the healthcare sector, but some stakeholders argue that more must be done to prove it.At Medtrade Spring in Las Vegas, in a session titled “Monetizing the Value of Outcomes," Dewey Roof, president of LifeH2H, will explain the importance to HME providers of demonstrating financial value to hospitals and providers.HME News: What are the most important outcomes for HME providers to be collecting and why?Dewey Roof: Readmissions...
2016: The year of numbers
January 11, 2016Liz Beaulieu, Editor
The February issue that we kick out the door later this week is the pre-show issue for Medtrade Spring. The March issue that we'll be working on next week: the show issue.
Didn't we just turn the page to 2016? Why are we already talking about the March issue and Medtrade Spring? Ah, the perils of print publishing, which requires you to work months ahead of time.
We'll have Q&As with speakers in the March issue to drum up interest in the educational program at Medtrade Spring. The...
NHIA seeks feedback on outcomes elements
August 14, 2015HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Home Infusion Association is accepting stakeholder comments on newly revised Definitions for Patient Outcomes Data Elements to be used in the collection of data to assess the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of home and specialty infusion care. Providers, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, payers, accreditors and other healthcare professionals can submit feedback on NHIA's website. The revised definitions are part of the association's ongoing efforts to establish...