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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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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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