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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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Telehealth, Home Monitoring and Home Care Business - Part II

By | on 02, Aug 2010 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology Product Information

Will Hicklen's blog article "Telehealth, Home Monitoring and Home Care Business" from July 7th attracted a lot of attention as he shared compelling results from a 4.5 year unbiased Veteran's Administr[...]

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Expert Nutrition Advice from KC Hayes: Home Care Bonus

By | on 19, Jul 2010 |   Healthy Caregivers Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices thought leadership

Over the past few years, I've gotten to know a very nice and interesting gentleman named KC Hayes. KC is a PHD Nutritionist and a professor at Brandeis University. One of KC's claims to fame is that h[...]

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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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Book Review: Reengineering Health Care: A Good Primer

By | on 25, May 2010 |   Recommended Reading Home Care Best Practices Health Care Reform thought leadership Aging in Place Technology

Last week I attended a seminar on the subject of Patient-Centered Design, which included a key note address by Jim Champy, the author of the new book Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radical[...]

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Improve Elder Care: Patients are Happier when their Doctor Sits Down

By | on 29, Apr 2010 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management

I live very close to Babson College, the school where I earned my MBA. The close proximity gives me a chance to participate in certain campus activities. Although I don't go very often, I especially l[...]

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The Magic of Maple Syrup for Preventing Cancer and Diabetes

By | on 07, Apr 2010 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices thought leadership

The vision for this blog was not to talk about the home care software that we make, but rather to share information of interest to the broader home care, hospice, private duty care and general elder c[...]

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Twitter Lists created for Home Care and Private Duty

By | on 08, Mar 2010 |   home care software geek NPDA

Back in October, we introduced twitter on this blog. If you don't know what twitter is, you can see the original post here. Those short five months ago there wasn't a lot of conversation occuring abou[...]

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The Wireless Future of Medicine - Video

By | on 05, Mar 2010 |   thought leadership Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology Home Care Mobile Solutions Video

Many of the people interested in this blog want to be pioneers in changing the delivery of healthcare. This entertaining and informative video is a "must see". It features Eric Topol, MD who is a card[...]

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Home Care Software Geek explains SEO and Inbound Marketing

By | on 03, Mar 2010 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care home care software geek

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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Home Care Nursing to Embrace the Tablet PC - Here's Why!

By | on 23, Feb 2010 |   home care software geek Home Care Technology Home Care Mobile Solutions

As a technology provider, we need to "place bets" on which technologies our potential customers will most want to use, and today's post shares some of our strategic thinking in that regard. Today we l[...]

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Medication Adherence is a Huge Drug Problem in America

By | on 18, Feb 2010 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices transitional care

Patients don't take their meds... and this is not only a huge problem for elderly care but is a broad issue across all ages and demographics. According to an article attached here from Pharmaceutical [...]

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