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RGTS launches multi-vendor Healthcare Mobile Technology Roadshow

Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions, Inc., a division of Rockefeller Group International, Inc., today announced the launch of a multi-vendor Healthcare Mobile Technology Roadshow throughout the tri-state region.

5 Nov 2013

Gentiva Health Services third quarter 2013 net revenues decrease 3.3% to $410.5 million

Gentiva Health Services, Inc., the largest provider of home health and hospice services in the United States based on revenue, today reported third quarter 2013 results.

5 Nov 2013

Aerotel to present two new models of hand-held ECG monitors at Medica 2013

Aerotel will present two new models for professional and personal use of the world's most advanced mini sized handheld ECG event recorder-transmitters enabling the transmission of ECG data from any place at any time.

5 Nov 2013

COMMONWELL project established to support health and social care services

Across Europe, providing health and social care services is becoming increasingly complex and costly. An aging population, a multitude of public, private and informal actors, together with a myriad of e-health systems and technologies create numerous hurdles to offering efficient and cost-effective care.

30 Oct 2013

EvergreenHealth named one of America's 100 Best Hospitals in three specialty areas

EvergreenHealth today announced it has earned several distinctions for 2014 across many of the health care system's specialties from Healthgrades, the nation's leading independent provider of information to help consumers make informed decisions about a physician or hospital.

23 Oct 2013

Iowa Medicaid initiative saves more than $86 million in three years

Gov. Terry E. Branstad announced today that an Iowa Medicaid initiative saved taxpayers $41 million in fiscal year 2013. That brings the total three-year savings of the program integrity effort to more than $86 million.

22 Oct 2013

Loyola University MNSON receives two grants to foster education, meet health needs of community

Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) has received two grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to foster interprofessional education and collaboration to better meet the health needs of the community.

17 Oct 2013

US states could save money through home-delivered meals programs

Home-delivered meals bring not only food to seniors but also the opportunity to remain in their homes. A new study by Brown University public health researchers projects that if every U.S. state in the lower 48 expanded the number of seniors receiving meals by just 1 percent, 1,722 more Medicaid recipients avoid living in a nursing home and most states would experience a net annual savings from implementing the expansion.

9 Oct 2013

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Saint Luke's Health System and doxo today announced Saint Luke's Health System has launched doxo across all ten of its hospitals to expand patients' electronic access to their billing information.

9 Oct 2013

Saint Luke's liver transplantation program receives CMS certification

The liver transplantation program at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City has received certification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The certification is an important step in enhancing the hospital's ability to care for Medicare-covered patients suffering from end-stage liver disease, and attract other insurers who base their coverage on the CMS certification.

2 Oct 2013

Looming caregiver shortage for aging America

An aging America means more demand for caregivers who help care for the elderly, but a looming shortage could endanger that care. In the meantime, California stakeholders debate how that state should shape home care in the future.

28 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: GOP's 'charge into the fixed bayonets;' Republican health plan is superior to Obama's; Congressional hypocrisy on its health policy

So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown that could result in a government shutdown. We wish the GOP luck, since we support the policy if not the strategy. But however this charge into the fixed bayonets turns out, we hope the folks who planned it will take responsibility for what happens now (9/23).

25 Sep 2013

Cerebral imaging in patients with early symptoms of AD may have better clinical outcomes

Patients suffering from early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease who were diagnosed sooner than usual using a brain imaging test received Alzheimer-specific medications earlier than those who did not have the brain imaging results available to their doctors or themselves.

25 Sep 2013

New Hampshire seniors favor Medicare home health services, oppose Medicare payment cuts

New Hampshire's home health leaders today released new polling data on New Hampshire seniors' opinions on the value of skilled home healthcare services in the Medicare program and proposed cuts that threaten to reduce Medicare payments by an unprecedented 14 percent. The survey polled 549 New Hampshire registered voters aged 65 and older.

21 Sep 2013

Personality traits can be correlated to health care consumption, study finds

Psychiatrists and psychologists have long understood that an individual's personality can define how he or she views the world around them, reacts to situations, and interacts with others. It now appears that personality traits can be linked to the frequency with which older adults use expensive health care services.

21 Sep 2013

Labor Department mandates overtime pay, minimum wage for home health workers

The Obama administration approved new rules that beginning Jan. 1, 2015, extend minimum wage and overtime payment to nearly 2 million home healthcare workers. Many in the mostly female and minority workforce are paid more than federal minimum wage, now $7.25 an hour, but don't get time-and-a-half when they work more than 40 hours a week.

19 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 18, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Census Bureau's latest figures on the nation's uninsured as well as Congressional Budget Office long-term deficit projections and how that news fits into events in the ongoing Capitol Hill budget battles.

18 Sep 2013

Long-term care panel releases recommendations

Though the panel narrowly approved proposals on Friday, it did not reach a consensus on how to pay for these often expensive services.

17 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 16, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about new polling indicating that the health law still faces an uphill climb.

16 Sep 2013

Performance-based incentive program improves nursing home care in critical areas

A new study from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research has found that nursing home care improves in critical areas -- including falls, quality of life and rehospitalizations -- when state government and nursing homes collaborate in a performance-based incentive program that promotes local solutions to local problems.

11 Sep 2013

Home Care News and Research

RGTS launches multi-vendor Healthcare Mobile Technology Roadshow

Gentiva Health Services third quarter 2013 net revenues decrease 3.3% to $410.5 million

Aerotel to present two new models of hand-held ECG monitors at Medica 2013

COMMONWELL project established to support health and social care services

EvergreenHealth named one of America's 100 Best Hospitals in three specialty areas

Iowa Medicaid initiative saves more than $86 million in three years

Loyola University MNSON receives two grants to foster education, meet health needs of community

US states could save money through home-delivered meals programs

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Saint Luke's liver transplantation program receives CMS certification

Looming caregiver shortage for aging America

Viewpoints: GOP's 'charge into the fixed bayonets;' Republican health plan is superior to Obama's; Congressional hypocrisy on its health policy

Cerebral imaging in patients with early symptoms of AD may have better clinical outcomes

New Hampshire seniors favor Medicare home health services, oppose Medicare payment cuts

Personality traits can be correlated to health care consumption, study finds

Labor Department mandates overtime pay, minimum wage for home health workers

First Edition: September 18, 2013

Long-term care panel releases recommendations

First Edition: September 16, 2013

Performance-based incentive program improves nursing home care in critical areas

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