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Care Coordination and Checklists are How We Heal Health Care

By | on 09, Jul 2012 |   Health Care Reform Care Coordination Checklists Video Learning

One of the people I've come to greatly respect is Atul Gawande. He's a doctor and an author and we've featured him numerous times on the Ankota blog including as the author of Ankota's book of the yea[...]

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Firing Home Healthcare Staff: The 10 Worst Things You Can Say

By | on 07, Feb 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Starting a Home Care Business HME Delivery Operations Home Care Industry Private Duty Agency Software Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Healthcare Delivery Management HME DME Checklists Home Care Mobile Solutions Will Hicklen Home Care Home Health Therapy Software Physical Therapy software

Whether you are part of a hospital system like Johns Hopkins Home Care Group in Baltimore or an independent Physical Therapy agency like Rehab Maxx in Chicagoland, Ankota's customers must sometimes fa[...]

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5 Percent of the Population Accounts for 50% of Health care costs

By | on 09, Aug 2011 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Care Coordination HME Checklists

Only 5 percent of Americans accounted for roughly half of all U.S. health care spending in 2009, according to a report from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. Conversely, th[...]

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Operational Excellence Home Care Agency? - 1st of 6 parts

By | on 09, Jul 2010 |   Recommended Reading Home Care Industry Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care Technology Checklists Home Care Scheduling Software

Having worked in logistics for approximately fifteen years one of the industry rags I pick up on a regular basis is Logistics Management. Recently there was an article titled “The Five Hallmarks of Op[...]

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Home Care and Checklists: The Full Story from Johns Hopkins

By | on 15, Jun 2010 |   Home Health Aide Software Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Checklists

We've recently posted a few stories about the power of checklists. As we know, checklists are a best practice that nurses have embraced for a long time. We also use Home Care Telephony (using checklis[...]

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Checklists Improve Home Care Quality - Mini Case Study

By | on 02, Jun 2010 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Health Aide Software Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Checklists New York State HCP

Last month on this blog, we reviewed the book "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. It's a fascinating and riveting read that people both in and out of healthcare will connect with. Our initial p[...]

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