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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May
CareAnyware Home Care and Hospice Software Customers Doing Great Things!
We just love spreading the good news about CareAnyware home health software and hospice software customer stories! Our friends at Fauquier Health Home Care Services in Virginia have been highlighted as “agency of the month” for May 2013 by the Home Health Quality Improvement campaign, a project of CMS. Quality Coordinator Jeanelle Dawson explains their [...]
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May
Patient Engagement to Become Key in Compliance Efforts
Today, on the CareAnyware home health software blog, attorney and home care legal expert Elizabeth C. Hogue shares details about the concept of “patient engagement”. As the screws tighten and CMS looks to cut costs, healthcare providers, including post-acute care and home health, have a responsibility to work with patients in a manner that enables [...]
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May
Should Honest Mistakes be Punished? Palmetto Thinks So
It seems like the financial pressures for post-acute care providers just keep piling up. Consider this… Your patient care is exemplary. Great news! You run a lean, efficient organization and even with rate reductions, you’re in good financial shape. Congratulations! Your census is growing — clearly a product of your hard work and standing in [...]
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May
Efficiency Critical to Survival in Home Health
Comments on MedPAC’s Proposed Plan The Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MedPAC) submitted recommendations to Congress last month that would significantly impact the post-acute industry and the patients we serve. Read the full text here. Major changes to the home health benefit would include accelerated rebasing of Medicare reimbursement rates and per-episode co-pays, asking some of [...]
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Apr
When Your Employees Aren’t Tech Savvy: 3 Tips
Technology-resistant employees can slow down a team and impact the success of your home health software implementation. We’ve compiled a few tips to help you approach this challenge. Get it all out in the open. It may seem like a basic place to begin, but having a conversation with a tech-resistant employee that puts both [...]
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Mar
Spring has Sprung! Software Enhancements are on the Way!
Learn about the Home Health and Hospice Software Enhancements Blooming Looking for more clinical best practices and tools to drive efficiency? In response to your feedback and interests, CareAnyware is excited to announce our latest enhancements to our home health and hospice software to help you manage your business. The spring release will be deployed [...]
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Feb
Top 3 Frequently Asked Questions about the Best Home Care Software
As home care software, automation and efficiency experts, we are passionate about helping organizations find the right technology solution for their team. I like to say, “It’s not what you can do with technology, it’s what the technology can do for you”. Home health software can and should make your every day a little bit [...]
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Jan
Home Health and Hospice News Roundup 1/30
Happy Wednesday! The CareAnyware home health software and hospice software blog news update is here. In this edition, we take a look at a possible cause of some re-hospitalizations, more fraud busts, and the great news the Medicaid care for hospice in LA has been saved. Is ‘Post-Hospital’ Syndrome to Blame for Some Re-hospitalizations? As [...]
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Jan
Home Health and Hospice Software Update: HIPAA Final Rules Issued
Home care industry expert and attorney Elizabeth C. Hogue shares a high level overview of the final rule issued by HHS regarding modifications of the HIPAA rules. As she mentions, the direct impact of this final rule on providers such as home health and hospice remains to be seen. Stay tuned to the CareAnyware home [...]
