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For agencies struggling with revenue problems from the PPS reform changes, it's crucial that you find every dollar of savings and efficiency. This means going back to your back-office systems. They aren’t as exciting as your point of care or wireless platforms, but new tools and functions can offer major savings each year. Learn how agencies are saving big with payroll interfaces, scheduling system enhancements and even simple solutions such as online banking. Also don't miss the rest of this jam-packed issue including vendor coverage on both Healthwyse and PtCT, how to help your nurses overcome laptop prejudices, why you want to switch to MLPS and great information on winning and keeping IT staff. Read more...
Home Care Innovations, May/June 2008Think you are on the brink of the once-elusive electronic medical record? Are you on the cusp of a paperless office? You can’t relax yet! Now you have to dig in and do the hard work of linking all those systems and fully integrating them. Valley Home Care of Paramus, NJ is tantalizingly close. Their forward thinking crew has implemented more than ten software systems and created links between with of them (with interfacing for the others on the way). Read about how integrated your agency can be and how you can use these connections to improve efficiency, growth and even employee satisfaction. Read more...
Home Health Technology GuideThe 2008 PPS updates set in motion a tidal wave of change. Not only critical software updates, but it pushed capital investments and technology purchases into 2009. The typical 3-year buying cycle had become a 4 or even 5-year cycle. Home Health Line and Home Care Innovations have fielded and unusually high number of requests about the industry’s IT vendors and software solution partners. So we created the Home Care Technology Guide. It’s intended to be a referral guide and resource as you select your next technology partner. Inside you will find the results of our Home Health Technology Survey as well as stories about the most popular home health IT systems, and listings of dozens of vendors. Read more...
Home Care Innovations, March/April 2008Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during one of your competitor’s strategic planning meetings? The March/April 2008 issue gives you an inside look at the innovative new business model powering the VNA of Boston’s virtual revolution. You’ll also get some insight into the newly renamed vendor CareVoyant. CEO Kandasamy Pasupathy reveals his R&D plans for the coming two years and talks candidly about past setbacks, current challenges and why he’s proud to call himself an “IT geek.” Read more...
Home Care Innovations, January/February, 2008Home Care Innovations is the home care industry’s only print magazine dedicated to helping CEOs and owners successfully adopt technology to build their businesses. Because it focuses on the strategic challenges and opportunities of technological innovation, the magazine is a must-read for high-level decision makers. In this issue: "HHA Innovator: Talking Telehealth with Karen Thomas". Read more...
