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Tips for Marketing Your Home Healthcare Telehealth Solution
There is a growing demand for convenience and innovation as the industry shifts to value-based care, which has resulted in the increased use of telehealth technology. Telehealth services have been associated with a number of benefits such as lowering healthcare costs, eliminating unnecessary travel and reducing hospital readmissions. However, the real challenge for most providers…
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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Home Telehealth (Webinar Recap)
20 years later, why is home care still not sure? On March 17th, 2016 we held our most popular webinar ever, featuring our founder and CEO Adrian Schauer and Tim Rowan of Rowan Consulting Associates and Editor of Home Care Technology Report. The webinar focused on a hot topic for home care agencies this year:…
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10 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Current Home Care Software
Home care software: it’s probably not something you spend too much time thinking about, because after all, you’re busy running your organization and providing quality home care to those in need. But if your home care software solution isn’t working the way it should, you can end up spending more time dealing with process and…
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Telehealth and the Uberization of Home Care
In the past few years, innovative technologies have been sweeping through various industries, lowering costs and increasing convenience to levels we never imagined. Take for example Uber. This highly publicized company infamously transformed the transportation industry by disrupting the traditional taxi service delivery model through client-centric technology. The model shift resulted in more convenient, transparent…
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions: It’s Not Just About the Numbers
According to the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), hospitalizations account for nearly one-third of the total $2 trillion spent on healthcare in the United States, and a substantial portion of these are avoidable patient readmissions. Government reforms such as The Affordable Care Act have been putting increased pressure on hospitals to reduce readmission rates or…
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Top 3 Home Care Client Complaints & How to Address Them
In the past few years the healthcare industry has been pushing hard on new initiatives to reduce the amount of hospital readmissions in order to cut healthcare costs and improve the quality of care. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), hospitals in the US spent roughly $41.3 billion in 2011 to…
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What the Home Healthcare Industry Can Learn from Netflix
Inevitably home and community care providers need a software solution to help them do what is most important – deliver quality care to their clients. There are hundreds of home healthcare software solutions on the market that come in in all shapes, sizes and flavors, which enable nurses, care workers, and/or companions to perform services…
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Video Conferencing: Bringing New Meaning to the Nurse Will See You..Now
Telehealth is an incredible solution for healthcare providers to care for their patients more conveniently and efficiently, while driving down healthcare costs. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) estimates that over 10 million Americans have directly benefited from some kind of telehealth service in the past year. These tools allow patients to stay in the comfort…
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Medicaid Telehealth Reimbursement Guidelines
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