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"In the Words" of Home Health Care Leaders

By | on 14, Mar 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care

A former business associate of Leading Home Care's Stephen Tweed went on to build a business that writes books based on the words of various groups of leaders. His most recent book is "In THE WORDS OF[...]

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Home Care Blogging: Why and How

By | on 16, Feb 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Blogging Home Care Industry Home Care

One of our goals in the Ankota blog has been to encourage the use of social media in home care. Usually we share a short topic, but today we're going against the grain and sharing quite a long piece, [...]

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Good Communication in Home Care is about Listening!!!

By | on 06, Feb 2012 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Home Care

I really enjoyed this short but powerful post on the blog at KevinMD.com. It's written by the Reverend George Handzo, a pastor in New York City. In home care nursing and caregiving, we have a great op[...]

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Can Your Home Care Agency Help Prevent Delirium?

By | on 09, Jan 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Alzheimer's Elderly Care Home Care Blogs

Delirium is likely to be the most costly and debilitating disease afflicting the elderly that you never heard of. We focus lots of attention on dementia, alzheimers and fall-related issues, and we sho[...]

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If Home Care Gets Involved in Bundled Payments Does it Work?

By | on 09, Dec 2011 |   Elderly Care Health Care Reform Care Coordination transitional care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in Hea[...]

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ACO's - Final Regulation​s Issued: Home Care Coordination Needed

By | on 21, Oct 2011 |   Home Care Industry Health Care Reform Home Care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

Elizabeth Hogue has shared with us a nice summary of the final regulations defining Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). We include her write-up in its entirety below. The piece that gets us most ex[...]

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Smartphones and Tablets will be the leading Home Care Mobile Devices

By | on 18, Oct 2011 |   Home Health Aide Software Aging in Place Technology home care software geek Home Care Technology Home Care Mobile Solutions Home Health Therapy Software

Last week I heard a presentation by John Halamka, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Brigham and Women's hospital and Harvard Medical School. John and his organizations are always ahead of the cu[...]

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Justification for Care Coordination between Hospitals & Home Care

By | on 22, Sep 2011 |   Elderly Care Care Coordination transitional care Home Care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

We at Ankota strongly believe that care coordination and home care are the keys to improved health care. The math is simple:

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The Best Way to Measure Home Care Quality

By | on 25, Aug 2011 |   Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Home Care

As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]

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Home Care Veteran Launches "Support for Caregivers" Blog

By | on 22, Aug 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care

Veteran Home Care nurse Colleen Lindblad RN has launched a new blog that provides support for caregivers, and is appropriately titled http://supportforcaregiver.blogspot.com/. Although this is a new i[...]

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Elderly Care 101: What options exist for Senior Care?

By | on 15, Aug 2011 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology Home Care BeClose

If you've come to this article, you're likely to have an elder family member or friend who is either temporarily or permanently struggling to live safely on their own and you're wondering what you can[...]

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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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