Despite initial challenges, 2025 appears promising for home health providers, as indicated by industry experts in Home Health Care News’s recent webinar, Home Health Outlook 2025. During the discussion, experts addressed several key issues, including Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement rates, labor shortages and improved technology integration. The panel also explored future risk-sharing opportunities and highlighted […]
Category: Technology
When a home health provider is not happy with a business partner or system, making a switch is common sense. But First Choice Home Health & Hospice provides a case study in the benefits that can come from considering other options even if a current system is satisfactory – as well as the potential for […]
The home care provider HouseWorks has launched its “Payor HUB” to enhance its relationship with payers and to improve outcomes. HouseWorks is one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the country. It believes it can blaze a trail with the Payor HUB, which is the next iteration of its “proprietary HouseWorks technology platform.” […]
A recent survey revealed that more than half of home-based care companies have either already invested in artificial intelligence (AI) or plan to do so within the next year. The primary motivation behind this trend is the ongoing staffing shortages in the sector. In August and September 2024, Home Health Care News and Forcura conducted […]
The need for home-based care is drastically increasing. All the while, providers are dealing with an unabated staffing problem. That’s why, in order to succeed in the future, many provider leaders believe that the gap needs to be bridged by the right technology solutions. “We know that most adults want to age in place at […]
Artificial intelligence-powered documentation does not enhance clinician efficiency but may improve their work-life balance, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine conducted a study in mid-2023 comparing 112 primary care clinicians who used Nuance’s […]
Homethrive, a provider of technology-enabled caregiving solutions based in Northbrook, Illinois, recently announced the successful completion of its latest funding round, raising more than $20 million. The company has also appointed Ismat Duckson Aziz to its board of directors. The funds will expand Homethrive’s end-to-end caregiving platform, focusing on personalized support and scaling its AI-driven […]
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Erin Masterson, associate principal and senior […]
As people age, they face various challenges, including a strong desire to maintain their independence, growing feelings of loneliness, and the reality that family members who wish to help are often busy with their own work and home responsibilities. ClearWellness aims to address these issues by using the smallest amount of technology possible to connect […]
If you don’t like change, you’re going to hate extinction. That’s a phrase that should be hung up on home health providers’ walls across the country, according to Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson. There’s traditional Medicare rate cuts, Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration, staffing shortages and regulatory challenges in the home health market. But Donaldson […]
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