Healthcare Spending to Reach 19.7% of GDP Within a Decade
The growth over the next decade will largely be driven by economic and demographic factors, including changes in projected income growth, increases in medical prices and a shift in insurance enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare due to the aging U.S. population. (Jeff Byers/Healthcare Dive)
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App allows for management and integration of caregiving team.
LEXINGTON, Mass. (February 14, 2018)—When Logan Wells, then a high school sophomore, watched his parents and aunt care for his grandmother after a dementia diagnosis, he felt helpless. But observing the process gave him an idea for one way he could make improvements: communication. With multiple people including family members and professional caregivers or nursing staff caring for a single individual, the burden remained on one person to coordinate care and communicate amongst the team.
Concerns over cuts and bid limits exist for rural providers.
Via AAHomecare, WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 14, 2018)—The recently released FY 2019 budget proposal from the White House includes several items related to DME. AAHomecare has especially strong concerns about the first item noted below and plans to talk to the Administration for clarification.
Provisions found in the budget proposal and an HHS summary document include:
LARGO, Fla. (February 12, 2018)—Quality Medical announced today the successful completion of the pre-audit assessment for attaining the prestigious quality registration, ISO 9001:2015.
With full certification expected by Q2, 2018, this is the first official step of the stringent ISO-9001: 2015 process.
The company committed itself to ISO compliance in 2017 to ensure its business processes deliver the very consistent quality experience customers expect and deserve.
Act provides transitional payments for therapies.
MCKINNEY, Texas (February 12, 2018)—Soleo Health, an innovative leader in specialty infusion services, announced today it strongly supports Congress’ passing of a transitional payment for home infusion services in H.R. 1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which was signed into law this weeks.
Research in noninvasive ventilation for COPD treatment.
NEW YORK (February 12, 2018)—Jeremy Orr, MD, of University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the new ATS Foundation/ResMed Research Fellowship in Noninvasive Ventilation (NIV) in COPD.
ResMed is a provider of NIV devices for treating COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) in the home and hospital.
Dr. Orr’s $100,000 award will support his research focused on the impact of noninvasive ventilation on cardiovascular biomarkers in COPD.
Jeremy Bloom grants ski wish for 88-year-old.
NASHVILLE (February 8, 2018)—World Champion and Olympic Freestyle skier Jeremy Bloom is used to skiing with some of the world's best skiers, but his most recent skiing partner was equally inspiring. He recently met up with an 88-year-old Brookdale resident who dreamed of skiing one last time. As founder of Wish of a Lifetime, Jeremy spends much of his post-Olympic days granting wishes to deserving seniors like Eleanor "Ellie" Ross.
BOSTON (February 8, 2018)—SoClean, the CPAP sanitizing device company based in Oxford, Massachusetts, is adding a new corporate office in Peterborough, NH. Initially, the new Peterborough location will serve as a call center and home base for top marketing and sales executives as they renovate the current space to eventually house additional business functions.
LAS VEGAS (February 8, 2018)—Ohio-based Invacare Corp recently signed a contract to exhibit at Medtrade Spring, scheduled for March 27–29, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.