technology

ONTARIO (July 29, 2020)—PointClickCare Technologies, acloud-based software platform for the senior care market, announces it has strengthened its board of directors with the appointment of Betsy Atkins. Atkins brings to the PointClickCare board more than 30 years of experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. A three-time CEO and entrepreneur, she has co-founded enterprise software companies in multiple industries, including technology and health care.
 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 29, 2020)—Forcura, a health care technology company that enables safer patient care transitions along the care continuum, announced that its new artificial intelligence-enabled technology, Referral Automation with IQ, will help users rapidly identify and accept new patient referrals, eliminating an estimated two hours from clients’ typical referral workflows.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 24, 2020)—Forcura, a health technology company that enables safer patient care transitions along the care continuum, announces its first-ever user conference, taking place as a key component of the Forcura CONNECT Summit on Aug. 28, 2020.

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (July 22, 2020)—Casamba, a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for contract therapy providers, skilled nursing facilities, home health and hospice agencies and outpatient therapy, announced it has added Relatient, a leading software as a service (SaaS)-based patient engagement company and award-winning No. 1 KLAS Category Leader for “Patient Outreach” in 2020, to its partner network. 
 

DALLAS (July 15, 2020)—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software for home health and hospice, is partnering with global digital wound care provider Swift Medical to provide high-quality, cost efficient care through an integrated solution.

AMSTERDAM (July 9, 2020)—Royal Philips, a provider of health technology, announced the launch of the Philips Respironics Mask Selector, a clinically validated, 3D facial scanning solution that helps providers to fit 9 out of 10 patients with the right mask from the start. The proprietary Mask Selector algorithm offers a novel solution in the shift toward digitization of health care, helping to improve business efficiencies by reducing costs associated with fitting time and mask waste.

AMSTERDAM (July 9, 2020)— Royal Philips, a provider of health technology, announced it has formed a strategic collaboration with BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company, to integrate its BioSticker medical device into Philips’ remote patient monitoring (RPM) offering to help monitor at-risk patients from the hospital into the home.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (July 9, 2020)—PointClickCare, a cloud-based software platform for the senior care market has been selected by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) to provide de-identified patient data for the Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS) COVID-19 Registry.

DALLAS, Texas (July 1, 2020)—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software provider for home-based care, has announced a new partnership with CipherHealth, a provider of health care engagement software, to offer exceptional patient outreach for the growing home health and hospice industry.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 20, 2020)—The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish permanent flexibilities allowing hospices to utilize telecommunications to deliver multi-disciplinary, patient-centered care, and to ensure that such services can be recorded and monitored for their impact on quality of care.

SAN DIEGO (May 18, 2020)— ResMed  has launched ResMed MaskSelector, a digital tool to make remote patient mask selection and sizing easier and more effective, helping patients receive the care they need from home.
 

MIRAMAR, Fla. (May 20, 2020)—Vohra Wound Physicians, a wound care physician group, announced the launch of its new Vohra@Home Patient Care Program, introducing telehealth wound care service to patients who are managing their wounds at home. Since mid-March, Vohra’s telemedicine encounters for patients in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have increased by more than 8,000%, demonstrating the receptivity and strong demand for real-time video consultations.
 

DALLAS (May 13, 2020)—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software for home health and hospice, has partnered with MUSE Healthcare of St. Paul to offer enhanced hospice care during the most critical times of a patient’s care journey. The new product uses sophisticated modeling and machine learning to better predict, prepare and provide for hospice patients in the last seven to 12 days of life.

VENICE, Fla. (May 8, 2020)—Marrelli & Associates, Inc. announced the availability of the Home Health Care Planning App. This app supports simple, comprehensive, on-the-go development of care plans to help clinicians care for home care patients and their caregivers.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (May 7, 20200—Empath Health announced, through its Mission Services Organization, it is partnering with Catholic Health Services in Miami, Florida, on a large technology project that will benefit Catholic Hospice. As a long-term technology collaborator with Empath Health, Vology will also be heavily involved in this partnership.

DALLAS, Texas (May 6, 2020)—Axxess, a technology provider for health care at home, is partnering with Hospice Pharmacy Solutions to provide Axxess Hospice clients a solution to streamline pharmacy benefit management and ensure compliance.

NEW YORK, (April 29, 2020)—AMC Health, a provider of telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology, announced its expanded relationship with long-term client Geisinger, utilizing AMC's telehealth capabilities to help assess, monitor and triage patients at-home who are chronically ill and at high risk; those living with heart failure, COPD, hypertension and diabetes.

Forcura’s tools for home health agencies include a web-based workflow application focused on handling discharge referrals (whether for in-home care or facilities); tools for getting physician signatures; and a mobile care platform with secure messaging, documentation, wound measurement and live video recording, all integrated with third party electronic health records. Mandeville, who founded the company in 2012, is on the board of the National Association of Home Care & Hospice.