Home Care Pulse — one of the home care industry’s top research and education firms — has purchased Activated Insights and Pinnacle Quality Insight, in two separate acquisitions. Financial terms were undisclosed. Activated Insights is an analytics platform designed to help senior care providers to collect data from both employees and the individuals receiving that […]
Three years ago, Senior Helpers rolled out its Life, Independence, Function, Evaluation (LIFE) Profile assessment tool. The hope was to break the unfortunate – but typical – cycle of injury, hospitalization and rehospitalization. Since its implementation, Senior Helpers has seen success utilizing its LIFE Profile tool to stop what the company refers to as the […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed home health payment rule for 2023 reasonably ruffled feathers across the industry. When given the opportunity to respond, interested parties pointed out some of the potential effects of the proposal, if finalized. Among them: reduced access to care and a worsening patient-to-clinician ratio. One of […]
Like many home care agencies, Home Helpers saw substantial growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the company is focused on sustaining that growth, specifically through honing in on the retention of its caregivers. “That’s been a big focus for us, especially looking at the first 90 days,” Home Helpers President and CEO Emma Dickison told […]
As a self-described data junkie, Stephen Tweed has lived by many mantras throughout his career in home care. When talking with Home Health Care News this week about how home care agencies can use and leverage data in order to grow, one of those mantras came to mind. “What gets measured, gets managed,” Tweed, the […]
This article is sponsored by Select Data. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ed Buckley, CEO of Select Data, to learn how Buckley and his team are redefining the capabilities of artificial intelligence solutions to empower care teams to overcome today’s greatest home health challenges. He explains how Select Data […]
The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). Andy Friedell, the company’s founder and CEO, has always been bullish on home care’s growing prevalence in MA, even when providers began to shy away from it a bit after initial excitement over supplemental-benefit updates […]
You don’t know what you don’t know. This saying rings true for many home-based health care organizations working toward Joint Commission accreditation. Previously, these organizations could only capture their information by manually collecting, organizing and analyzing their own data. Even after completing belaboring manual work, they still had difficulty understanding the totality of the data […]
Almost all home-based care providers are trying to move toward value- and risk-based care, either because they want to or have to. In order for the home health care industry to move toward risk, it will need the right collective data to bring to the table. And in order for individual providers to move toward […]
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