Encompass agrees to buy Frontier Home Health and Hospice … Study finds COVID-19 isn’t usually the sole cause of home health deaths … Deutsche Bank issues buy rating on LHC Group … American...
Home Care briefs for Tuesday, Sept. 21
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 21, 2021
Amedisys expands in North Carolina … Home healthcare among fastest-growing jobs … COVID-19 booster cuts infection in those 60 and older … Ochsner Health expands telehealth to all 50 states...
Home Care briefs for Friday, July 2
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 02, 2021
LeadingAge lays out vision for direct care workforce … Telehealth pilot program helps seniors age safely at home … Companion robot to support primary care providers in homes … Ro acquires Kit to...
Geriatrician calls for move to value-based care model for home care
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 19, 2021
Medicare and private insurers must quickly transition to a value-based-care payment model to meet the needs of an aging population, the head of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) told...
Compassus scores Gold in Quality category for tool to reduce hospitalizations
By
Foster Stubbs
Dec 06, 2023
With their home health virtual care product, Compassus aims to reduce rehospitalizations among Medicare recipients. The innovation earned the company Gold in the Quality category in the Home Care track...
Yoga can effectively treat chronic low back pain
Feb 28, 2024
Benefits seen for pain intensity and flexion-relaxation phenomenon
Older adults ‘satisfied’ with telehealth visits, but trust in doctor, care are issues: survey
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 27, 2020
In a new survey on perceptions of virtual doctor appointments, older adults were least likely to cancel doctor appointments and were more satisfied with the experience of virtual visits as compared with...
Five healthcare orgs become inaugural members of TEFCA’s national data exchange network
By
Aaron Dorman
Dec 14, 2023
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, went live this week. It was a project seven years in the making.
$1 billion contract supports veterans’ telehealth, tech-enabled care
By
Aaron Dorman
Jun 23, 2023
AI-giant Iveda, in partnership with Movement Interactive, announced Thursday that it had received an eight-year Veterans Affairs contract worth just over $1 billion to use IvedaCarea and IvedaAI for telehealth...
Majority of adults prefer in-person over telehealth visits
Dec 14, 2021
However, those who prefer video visits are more sensitive to out-of-pocket costs