Sharecare’s New CEO Touts CareLinx, At-Home Care Capabilities

Sharecare CEO Brent Layton took on his role at the company less than two weeks ago. He’s already touting the company’s post-acute care capabilities. “The assets that are at Sharecare today, like CareLinx, give us the ability to truly impact the post-acute care space,” Layton said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Wednesday. “To work […]

Top Home Care Trends For 2024

The rising costs of home care were a trend in 2022 and 2023. They will remain one in 2024, and could finally come to a head. That’s only one trend, of many, that will impact home care providers in the new year. But it alone will also lead to other trends, such as increased M&A, […]

Compassus Looking For More AI Use Cases, Risk-Bearing Partners In Near-Term Future

As artificial intelligence becomes more applicable in health care, home-based care providers are finally diving into use cases that may work for them. The Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus is a prime example of that. A forward-thinking provider, it has been utilizing RPM and telehealth for years, even prior to COVID-19. Now, it’s looking at ways it […]

Private Equity, AI Likely To Power Home-Based Care in 2024

Home-based care providers have been waiting for the other shoe to drop on dealmaking for a year now. As 2024 nears, that shoe may be finally landing. And, in addition to M&A, genuine AI application in both home health care and home care appears to be right around the corner. Those were two of my […]

Lawsuit Over UnitedHealth Group’s AI Strategy Corroborates Home Health Providers’ Convener Claims

A class action lawsuit has been filed against UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) in Minnesota. That lawsuit pertains to two issues that home health providers have long griped over: algorithms dictating care, and conveners’ role in between payers and providers. The lawsuit follows an investigation from STAT News, which alleged that UnitedHealth Group – through naviHealth […]

Best Buy Health Partners With Mass General Brigham, Enters Into Medicare-Certified Home Health Care

Best Buy Health is teaming up with yet another health system to help augment home-based care services. What’s of note, however, is that in Best Buy Health’s partnership with Mass General Brigham, it will also be aiding in the Medicare-certified home health arena. The two organizations announced the collaboration Wednesday. In addition to a home […]

How Modivcare Plans To ‘Outgrow’ The Personal Care Market

Modivcare Inc. (Nasdaq: MODV) leaders believe the company’s access to the home will be what separates it from others in the eyes of payers. “The people that take risk, whether that’s a payer or somebody that the payer has offloaded risk to, those are our customers,” Modivcare CEO L. Heath Sampson said during the company’s […]

‘Too Much, Too Fast’: Home Care Providers Still Face Uphill Battle In Becoming Tech-Enabled

When home-based care provider leaders discuss implementing new technologies in the home, they often talk about how those technologies can improve efficiency and lower costs. However, getting buy-in from clients and patients in the home is a lot easier said than done. Having patients use technologies like wearable devices, remote patient monitoring software and tablets […]

Resilient Healthcare’s Successful Jump From Home Health Startup To Nationwide Home-Based Care Enabler

Resilient Healthcare has gone through a major transformation as a company. It has essentially gone from being a home health provider to a technology company that enables health systems and hospitals to deliver higher-acuity care in the home. One thing that hasn’t changed is Resilient’s focus on increasing access to care. Most recently, the company […]