The pandemic resulted in a rise of remote patient monitoring (RPM) utilization and a business boon for health care technology companies. Now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, most providers don’t believe it will kill RPM’s home health momentum. Throughout the pandemic, RPM technology was a tool that allowed home health providers to […]
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There are only two options when dealing with a staffing shortage: getting more people or making better use of current people. Lee Teslik, the founder and CEO of Reverence, is particularly interested in the second option. “Making better use of your existing people is a combination of deploying people in the most thoughtful possible way […]
Top home-based care leaders from across the country gathered at the end of March in Washington, D.C. We got to hear from many of them at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event last Thursday. While they are advocating for a better regulatory environment – whether in personal home care or home health care […]
While home-based care is where health care is going, it’s also very behind from a technology standpoint. Even leaders at top-performing home health and home care agencies admit that their respective spaces are not where they should be in that area. It makes sense, then, that private equity and venture capital firms are intrigued by […]
Over the next year, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) expects to grow its Best Buy Health sales faster than its base business as it leans more heavily into its at-home care platform. “The role of technology within health care is becoming more important than ever and our strategy is to enable care at home for everyone,” […]
Home-based care leaders are constantly looking to other industries to find inspiration. Take the airline industry, for example. Despite some of its warts, the convenience of looking up and booking a flight is an immediate process. There is no window of time where a hopeful traveler requests a flight and has to wait a certain […]
Sharecare Inc. (Nasdaq: SHCR) has expanded its home care offerings. The company will now bring its care management and transitional care programs for high-risk populations to more than just Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. “We are going to leverage our homegrown network of around 450,000 caregivers – combined with our technology wrapper – to manage the transition […]
More startups and innovators are being drawn to the home-based scare space. These forward-looking companies offer a new avenue for health plans looking to reach their members and, in turn, improve health outcomes. One such company, DUOS, engages with the seniors through Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and dual-eligible plans in order to aid them in […]
Home health providers can help meet the needs of vulnerable patients that need skilled services in their home through telehealth and virtual partnerships. That’s according to a new study conducted by AccentCare and Sound Physicians, a telehealth and physician service provider. The study also found that when telehealth was offered, there were timely initiations of […]
UCM Digital Health (UCM) and MVP Health Care (MVP) have announced a new program that will give MVP members access to emergency room-level care in the home. The program is dubbed Treatment in Place. “This partnership was really based on the exact concept of keeping people out of the ER, out of the hospital and […]
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