WATERLOO, IOWA (February 18, 2016)—Planning is well underway for Essentially Women’s annual education conference and trade show.
Focus: The EW Conference, will take place September 25-26 at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 18, 2016)—Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for the first time, on core measures primarily for physician quality programs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 18, 2016—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a final rule that requires Medicare Parts A and B health care providers and suppliers to report and return overpayments by the later of the date that is 60 days after the date an overpayment was identified, or the due date of any corresponding cost report, if applicable.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (February 17, 2016)—More than one-quarter of the U.S. population report occasionally not getting enough sleep, while nearly 10 percent experience chronic insomnia.
WATERLOO, IOWA, (February 17, 2016)—During their February meeting, VGM Group, Inc.’s board of directors voted unanimously to appoint Mike Mallaro to serve as the company’s new chief executive officer.
Mallaro will fill the role that was vacated with the sudden passing of VGM’s founder, Van G. Miller, this past October. Jim Walsh, VGM’s interim CEO, will transition to chairman of the board and continue to serve as general counsel.
SAN DIEGO (February 17, 2016)—GreatCall Inc., the leader in connected health for active aging, adds a new level of health and safety awareness for family caregivers with the launch of Link Check-Ins. Using simple, unobtrusive questions, caregivers are kept abreast of the family member’s wellbeing--giving them peace of mind and providing early warning to health issues.
A simple contraption to help the sick, frail and elderly get out of bed is set to take off on the lucrative American mobility aid market.
Allan Perriam worked as a nurse for 10 years in Australia where expensive hoists were used to lift patients off of beds.
“I just saw that as undermining the rehabilitation process and undermining the independence of the patient so I thought ‘there’s got to be a better way’,” he said.
Perriam set up his own company, Innovo Health Care, and moved to South Australia in 2014 to manufacture his simple device, the U-stand Frame.
