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Ken Accardi

Ken is the founder and CEO of Ankota, a company that helps any organization that helps older or disabled people live independently in their home of choice. Having grown up with a disability and a passion for healthcare, this is Ken's mission

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Pharmacist-Led Care Transitions: Good or Bad for Home Health?

By | on 15, Apr 2014 |   Readmissions Care Coordination transitional care Care Transitions

Walgreens Pharmacy has instituted a pharmacist-led care transitions program called WellTransitions® and they are posting impressive results. According to a Business Wire Press Release on April 4th, 20[...]

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Home Care Marketing - Make Your Phone Ring!

By | on 03, Apr 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Marketing Home Care Home Care Best Practices

Home care consultant and my friend, Ginny Kenyon, published a great piece in her blog entitled Home Health Marketing Ideas to Make Your Agency's Phone Ring. What I loved about the article is that it r[...]

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Inappropriate Home Health Referrals and Billing Lead to Convictions

By | on 27, Mar 2014 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Home Healthcare Delivery Management

At Ankota, we believe that home care should play a vital and increasing role in health care reform. Keeping elderly and fragile patients out of the hospital and in their homes can greatly reduce healt[...]

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CMS Readmission Penalties for Dummies

By | on 13, Mar 2014 |   Readmissions Care Coordination Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions

Have you ever seen those books that teach information "for Dummies"? I just went to the official website (www.fordummies.com,) and these were the titles displayed on the home page:

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5 Warning Signs of Home Health Agency Start-up Failure

By | on 10, Mar 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Home Care

We recently published a piece called The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Home Care Agencies that shared our top observations of consistent practices that we see in agencies that are thriving. My mentor [...]

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The Secret to Making Your Home Care Web Site a Great Marketing Tool

By | on 24, Feb 2014 |   Private Duty Home Care Blogs Home Care Blog Home Care Blogs

Pretty much every home care agency has a web site these days, but not all web sites are created equal. One of the key tips in our paper "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Home Care Agencies" is to use[...]

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Home Care Software Geek Browser Update, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari

By | on 13, Aug 2013 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology home care software geek Home Care Technology ACO Technology

The Home Care Software Geek posts in this blog don't talk about Home Care Nursing Software, Private Duty Telephony, DME Delivery Software, Home Infusion Care Management or the other topics we focus on[...]

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A Silver Lining for HME Providers per Dave Cormack, Brightree Chief

By | on 05, Aug 2013 |   HME Delivery Operations HME Delivery Software Elderly Care Health Care Reform HME DME

Brightree is a leading provider of software for DME (Durable Medical Equipment) Providers. Their software manages orders, billing, inventory management, and fulfillment for retail and home delivery DM[...]

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AARP Video: The Lost Generation Views Aging

By | on 05, Jun 2013 |   AARP Aging Elderly Care Home Care Video

The Lost Generation Turns Things Around With a View on Aging The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) held a contest in 2007 called "U@50". They asked for videos to be submitted by people be[...]

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Home Care Inspirational Quotes from Boyd and Nicholas

By | on 21, Sep 2012 |   Home Care Best Practices NAHC

When Ankota first started out, we went to several trade shows to meet people and to learn more about the home care industry. One of the first few people I remember meeting at the NAHC Financial Manage[...]

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Home Care Software Can Learn from the Mars Curiosity Rover

By | on 06, Aug 2012 |   Elderly Care home care software geek Home Care Technology Home Care Home Care Blogs Video

The Home Care Software Geek posts in this blog don't talk about Home Care Nursing Software, Private Duty Telephony, DME Delivery Software, Home Infusion Care Management or the other topics we focus on[...]

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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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