Cosan Group capitalizes on in-home patient monitoring trend
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 14, 2021
The pandemic is driving more care into the home and forcing homebound patients to become more adept at using technology.
More than 80 percent of health systems to expand home care platforms
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 20, 2021
Regulatory flexibility from the pandemic, increased patient satisfaction with telehealth and broadband expansion are prompting health systems to expand the use of remote care technology over the next year.
Rainbow Health launches new tool to help deliver care to patients at home
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Diane Eastabrook
May 24, 2021
Houston, TX-based Rainbow Health has launched a new solution aimed at simplifying the clinical logistics for home healthcare.
Note to providers and payers: Get personal with your patients, study finds
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 18, 2021
The healthcare ecosystem needs to accelerate the shift toward making healthcare more personal, convenient and omnichannel, according to a new report by the business consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
Higher wages, better training and flexibility are keys to growing home care economy, policy makers say
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 04, 2021
Home care workers must be better paid, better trained and more flexible in their skills as they emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
New assessment tool aims to improve dialysis experience for patients
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 31, 2021
A new tool assessing patient experience could encourage more Americans with kidney disease to dialyze at home.
Move to healthcare at home helps to empower patients, former CMS administrator says
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 24, 2021
Moving healthcare into the home is helping shift the balance of power from healthcare systems to patients, former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D., said Monday....
Pendulum for primary care is swinging back to the home, VillageMD co-founder says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jun 23, 2021
VillageMD co-founder Paul Martino predicts the U.S. healthcare system is returning to its roots whereby primary care physicians — not big hospital systems — drive patient care, along with better, more...
Pandemic has revealed ‘what’s possible’ in home care, OSU Wexner Medical Center leader says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 26, 2021
When The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) opened in 1834, physicians traveled to patients’ homes via horse and buggy to make house calls.
Peer-to-Peer: AccordCare, which dropped anchor on East Coast, now has designs on West
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 13, 2021
Starting AccordCare two months before a global pandemic hit was either the best time or the worst time to launch a personal care company with a unique subset in complex clinical care.