Remote monitoring of home care patients is set to become more “plug and play” as Independa, remote health monitoring provider, and Ideal Life, medical monitoring device supplier, collaborate on a wireless monitoring and data cloud storage program. Ideal Life’s monitoring devices including scales, glucometers, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure cuffs will be equipped with Independa’s […]
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The owner and operator of a Miami, Fla. health care agency pleaded guilty on Thursday, Aug. 2, for his participation in a $42 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice in conjunction with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services. Eulises Escalona pleaded guilty to one count of […]
The value of the U.S. market for remote patient monitoring more than doubled between 2007 and 2011, and is expected to continue growth through 2016 as efforts to reduce the burden on hospitals and their resources progress, a report by medical market research company, Kalorama, finds. The report titled Remote & Wireless Patient Monitoring Markets […]
In an effort to expand to the U.S. home care market, Canadian home health franchise, Nurse Next Door, opened its first U.S. location in Mission Viejo, Calif., last week. The franchise currently has more than 50 locations in North America and has its eyes on further U.S. home health market expansion as it expects to […]
Home care and other senior care services connector Care.com announced on Tuesday the closing of $50 million in new funding that’s slated to assist the company’s efforts to acquire similar online care destination services and expand to new locations. Care.com plans to use the financing to continue investing in building its business, both through the […]
Aging baby boomers will face a challenge in the demands that are now putting increasing pressure on providers of home health care, writes an Associated Press article. The home health care industry is expected to see a boom in coming years, adding 1.3 million jobs, according to the U.S. Labor Department. “If those jobs can’t […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an digital sensor that can be embedded in a pill and ingested to track health data from within the body, reports Medical News Today. The ingestible sensor is about the size of a grain of sand and is made mostly of silicon. The idea is that […]
Home Health International (PINKSHEETS: HHII) will begin offering a wider breadth of products that are frequently used in home health care administration, the company announced Tuesday. The new products and services will span mobility aids, diabetic supplies, resident monitoring and fall alarms, diagnostics, and therapy aids across business segments including home health care and durable […]
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of the new Program Integrity Command Center, meant to speed up the process of identifying fraud and stopping criminals from defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The announcement came shortly after Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), both part […]
New assessments by Healthcare Market Resources (HMR) using 2009 Medicare claims data has disproved the myth that hospital-affiliated home health agencies (HHA’s) hold a monopoly over post-acute home health referrals. By tracking and comparing hospital inpatient claims to home health admissions, HMR examined which home health agencies patients used after leaving each hospital. HMR concludes […]
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