NIH-Funded Study Reveals How Modern Technology Can Be Used to Enforce Clinical Best Practices That Improve Patient Outcomes and Reduce Costs ATLANTA and Research Triangle Park, NC – May 23, 2013 – CareAnyware, a Brightree company and leading provider of home health and hospice software solutions, and Cornell University announced today results of a recent [...]
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Apr
News Roundup – Hospice Software Blog
Happy Friday! The CareAnyware hospice software blog news update is here. In this edition, we focus on EOL and palliative care issues. As Palliative Care Need Grows, Specialists Are Scarce In this piece from NPR, the issue of limited supply of certified palliative care specialists that account for a shortfall of as many as 18,000 [...]
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Jan
The New Era of Acute Hospitalizations
Post-Acute Providers Key to Health System Success In the past, it was not unreasonable to expect that our patients would be discharged from the hospital in a state of improved health. Yet, with recent changes in healthcare reform, we’re increasingly seeing that this is not the case. Home care is now seen as the best [...]
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Jan
From Patient to CEO: Learnings from a Home Health Success Story
It’s always a good rule of thumb to empathize with your clients, but for Rick Collett, the CEO of the franchise branch of BrightStar Care in Chattanooga, Tennessee, empathy has been the major driving force behind his home care agency’s success. From Patient to CEO As a senior in college, Collett was involved in a [...]
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Dec
Home Health and Hospice News Roundup 12/24
On this day before Christmas, we hope that you have a merry holiday with friends and family. Best wishes for a happy new year! Here’s the news roundup for the end of December from our home health and hospice software experts… Family Caregivers Lack Training Resources Where can family members receive training to assist with [...]
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Dec
Step-By-Step Guide to a Winning Hospice Plan of Care
The Hospice Professional’s Step-By-Step Guide to a Winning Plan of Care A sound hospice plan of care spells out the specific activities and services that will meet the patient and family’s needs as specified by the comprehensive assessment. The plan of care must be interdisciplinary; a comprehensive assessment addresses the patient’s physical, psychosocial, emotional, and [...]
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Sep
Building a Winning Home Health Care Plan: Part 1
Part 1: Building a Winning Home Health Care Plan Supporting Documentation for Interventions & Goals As CMS, along with RAC and ZPIC auditors identify increasing trends in deficiencies, proper documentation has never been more important. Having a Care Plan and Assessment that create a visual picture of the patient and the services home care will [...]
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Aug
New Strain of Swine Flu Appears in Eleven States
Home health providers should be aware of a new strain of swine flu that has appeared recently, in order to protect your most fragile patients. The Centers for Disease Control’s Influenza Division announced this week that the strain appeared across eleven states in July and August. So far, the new strain — designated H3N2 — [...]
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Aug
Are you a Top 25 Clinical Informaticist?
I’ll start by saying that I don’t know if “informaticists” is truly a word. I do know that access to clinical information is becoming more and more important in today’s home health and hospice environment. If you are a data lover like me, you may want to check out the following call for entrants from [...]
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Jul
Summer Home Health and Hospice Software Release Coming in 5 days!
Gentle reminder for our customers! We’re heating this summer up with important enhancements for both clinical and administrative functions. Now is the time to dive in and train on these new enhancements! Visit CareAnywareU, click home health or hospice, and scroll down to webinars on the left hand side to access recorded training videos and [...]
