TORONTO (September 26, 2019)—PointClickCare, the market leader in cloud solutions for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living sectors, recently celebrated the opening of its new office in downtown Toronto. Located at the south west corner of King St. and York St., the new office is expected to add 100 new product developer and engineer positions to the company's 1,500-person strong workforce.
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LOS ANGELES (September 27, 2019)—Arosa+LivHOME has signed an agreement to acquire LifeLinks, a provider of Aging Life Care services in Raleigh, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennesee. This marks Arosa+LivHOME’s sixth acquisition since January and entry into its sixth state, Tennessee.
LOS ANGELES (September 25, 2019)—Frontive, a new digital health company that aims to improve health management for patients and families, today announced the launch of its smart personal health platform, Frontive Health. Frontive combines its patented artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solution with Amazon Echo's intuitive voice assistant to securely connect and organize fragmented pieces of health information to help patients and caregivers more easily adhere to care regimens.
DALLAS and TORONTO (September 24, 2019)—Axxess, a home health care technology company, is partnering with Swift Medical, a provider of wound care technology, to provide thousands of home health agencies access to advanced wound care management.
BOSTON (September 24, 2019)—ResMed has been named the 2019 “Dealmaker of the Year” by Medtech Insight, an award that recognizes the company most adept at advancing its business through investment deals. The award was presented Monday night by Medtech Insight owner Pharma Intelligence, a leading global analyst firm serving the pharmaceutical, medical device, and clinical research industries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 23, 2019)—The House of Representatives Veterans Affairs committee held a hearing on September 11 on H.R. 1527, the Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act, a bill to expand access to homecare for veterans and help keep them out of institutional settings.
Sharing patient data across the care continuum
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 17, 2019)—The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) submitted comments on the 2020 home health prospective payment system rate update proposed rule.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 13, 2019)—The Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report pertaining to home health agencies (HHA), “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Could Use Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Data To Identify High-Risk Home Health Agencies.”
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (September 12, 2019)—The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) and International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) have announced the co-location of their 2020 annual conferences in Denver, Colorado.
NHIA, the voice of the home and specialty infusion industry, will be holding its 2020 Annual Conference April 5-9, 2020, bringing together more than 1,200 industry professionals together for the industry’s leading education and networking event.
NEW YORK (September 12, 2019)—Senior Helpers, a provider of in-home senior care, announced that it has begun deploying the industry's first data-driven client assessment process based on the concept of Micro Social Determinants of Health (MSDOH).
DALLAS (September 12, 2019)—KanTime Healthcare Software, a growing post-acute EMR software and PlayMaker Health, a post-acute data solutions provider, announced that the two companies will work together to bring proven growth solutions to KanTime home health and hospice customers.
LOS ANGELES (September 10, 2019)—Tandem Careplanning, a public benefit corporation led by technology-based business leader Joshua Greer, introduces a new caregiving solution in the Greater Los Angeles area to help clients and caregivers obtain and manage in-home care relationships with full support throughout the process.
HOUSTON (September 10, 2019)—BrightStar Care, a national franchise specializing in providing A Higher Standard of Care in medical and non-medical in-home care services, has announced targeted development plans throughout Texas. The brand has available franchise territories in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, and is seeking qualified franchise partners to operate in each market.
A model for mental health treatment in the hospital & at home
OAKLAND, Calif. (September 9, 2019)—The rate of people starting voluntary at-home peritoneal dialysis rose from 15% to 34% over 10 years at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, providing a convenient and safe way to manage advanced-stage kidney disease compared with center-based hemodialysis, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Using robotic pets to relieve isolation in dementia patients
Putting hospital experience into clinical practice in the home
ATLANTA (September 4, 2019)—Diandra Bankhead, the owner and operator of Elite Homecare (Elite), an Atlanta-based home health care provider, has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid by submitting thousands of fraudulent claims for services that were never provided to medically fragile children under the Georgia Pediatric Program (GAPP).
ATLANTA, Ga. and DALLAS, Texas (September 3, 2019)—Axxess, a home health care technology company, and Trella Health, a source for post-acute performance analytics and outcomes data, have partnered to provide Axxess customers improved benchmark quality performance metrics while strengthening referral relationships to accelerate their growth.