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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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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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