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Employers Look to Direct Contract with Doctors, What about Home Care

By | on 27, May 2012 |   Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Care Care Transitions

I came across a post on the American Medical News web site. Discussing the issue that more self-insured employers are considering direct contracting with healthcare providers. The drive health benefit[...]

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6 Lessons for Home Health Care from Fifty Shades of Gray?!?

By | on 03, May 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Private Duty Home Care Blogs Home Care Industry Elderly Care Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care HME DME Will Hicklen Home Therapy Therapy Software Accountable Care Organizations ACO Home Care Blogs Managing Post Acute Care Home Care Dispatch Learning

Maybe you don't want to give a copy of Fifty Shades of Gray to your elderly home care patients, but you might just learn some valuable things from the block-buster novel. If you are a physical therapi[...]

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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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Firing Home Healthcare Staff: The 10 Worst Things You Can Say

By | on 07, Feb 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Starting a Home Care Business HME Delivery Operations Home Care Industry Private Duty Agency Software Care Coordination thought leadership transitional care Home Healthcare Delivery Management HME DME Checklists Home Care Mobile Solutions Will Hicklen Home Care Home Health Therapy Software Physical Therapy software

Whether you are part of a hospital system like Johns Hopkins Home Care Group in Baltimore or an independent Physical Therapy agency like Rehab Maxx in Chicagoland, Ankota's customers must sometimes fa[...]

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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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Geriatric Care Management: Improving Hospital Discharge

By | on 04, Jan 2012 |   Geriatric Care Management Home Care Industry Care Coordination Aging in Place Technology Home Care Mobile Solutions Will Hicklen Home Care Scheduling Software National Association of Geriatric Care Managers

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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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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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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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Must discharge planners offer Home Health Choices?

By | on 23, Mar 2011 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Accountable Care Organizations ACO Learning

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Telehealth, Home Monitoring and Home Care Business

By | on 07, Jul 2010 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination thought leadership Aging in Place Technology Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care Technology Will Hicklen NPDA Home Care Scheduling Software

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