WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 14, 2020)—NAHC President William A. Dombi told the Senate Special Committee on Aging on Wednesday, Feb. 12th, that while the “Medicare home health benefit is well managed,” it needs to be modernized to improve access to quality care in the home for all Americans, especially those living in rural areas.
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Ensuring patients stay on course with treatment
WALTHAM, Mass. (November 19, 2019)—According to the United States Census Bureau, within a 20-year timeframe, baby boomers will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. By 2034, there will be approximately 77 million people over 65 years old, compared to approximately 76 million people under the age of 18.
NEW YORK (November 8, 2019)—Citus Health, a digital health solutions provider for the post-acute care industry, announced today the availability of its cloud-based platform that enables hospice and palliative care organizations with real-time interdisciplinary and care team communication and collaboration.
How to link seniors to their care teams
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (November 1, 2019)—Life365, a provider of integrated health solutions, announced today that J & B Medical, one of the nation’s fastest-growing health care organizations, and their telehealth solutions subsidiary, HNC Virtual Solutions, has joined the consortium of partners on the Life365 Integrated Health Solution Platform.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (October 8, 2019)—New research published by the Journal of American Geriatrics Society points to telemedicine as a way to improve health outcomes in older adults. The study reviewed current articles and data on telemedicine with a focus on older adults—those who are 65 years or older.
DALLAS, Texas and SAN JOSE, Calif. (September 16, 2019)—Home health care technology provider Axxess is adding resources to help clients succeed under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) by partnering with Connected Home Living, Inc. to provide telehealth and remote care monitoring solutions.
Connect with patients between visits and prevent complications
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (April 10, 2019)—InTouch Health announced the release a fully integrated, end-to-end virtual care platform. Solo by InTouch delivers enterprise solutions to provide scalable, patient-centric telehealth for any use case in any setting—with packages enabling compelling price points for multiple situations.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (January 30, 2019)—In an effort to keep patients safe and healthy in their own homes, the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Hospital at Home team deployed Current, an AI-enabled wearable platform, to remotely monitor patients after being discharged from the hospital.
LAS VEGAS, (January 8, 2019)—Triple W, a provider of connected health devices, announced a new rental program to make DFree, a health tech wearable device for incontinence, more accessible to people who need to manage bladder control issues. DFree continuously monitors the bladder and notifies the patient when it’s full so they know when it’s time to go to the bathroom. Triple W will feature DFree at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Tech West/Sands Expo, Jan. 8–11.
PITTSBURGH (December 5, 2018)—Curavi Health Inc. announced the acquisition of TripleCare, a Long Island City, New York-based provider of telemedicine solutions for the post-acute, long-term care industry, including skilled nursing facilities. This acquisition positions Curavi for growth and will enable the company to care for more patients with its services and technology, according to the company. Together, the combined entity will serve nearly 100 facilities across 14 states.
(December 4, 2018)—On October 26, 2018, CMS issued Contract Year (CY) 2020 Medicare Advantage and Part D Flexibility Proposed Rule CMS-4185-P. The rule updates Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D by promoting flexibility and innovation so that MA and Part D sponsors are empowered with the tools to improve quality of care and provide more choices.
BOSTON (July 10, 2018)—Working to provide a new type of wound care treatment in the home, MyWoundDoctor, LLC, was recognized during the 2018 Northeastern University Nurse Innovation Entrepreneurship Competition and won AARP's audience choice award at the event.
The promise and challenge of community-based care
BOSTON (June 5, 2018)–Orbita, Inc., which provides a technology platform for creating health care specific voice and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, announced a collaboration with AARP to study remote patient monitoring and reduce social isolation.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (June 5, 2018)—Synzi, a virtual care company, has announced that Trilogy Home Healthcare (Trilogy), a Medicare-certified home health care agency, has selected its virtual care communication platform to improve patient management, engagement and care.
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