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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
Today's post is about Networking for Success. It comes from the Private Duty Today newsletter published by Stephen Tweed's Leading Home Care organization. The article was written by Stephen Tweed and [...]
The cost of purchasing and operating “on-premises” applications continues to increase and shows no sign slowing down. Traditionally, servers were purchased and installed at a home care business. Then [...]
A big focus of the Ankota Blog is Home Care Entrepreneurship. We introduced this topic in our post entitled For Home Care, the way forward requires you to think like a start-up, where NAHC's Bill Domb[...]
How did you spend you holiday vacation? Aging in Place expert Laurie Orlov clearly spent hers thinking about what happened in 2010 and what is likely to happen in 2011 in the arena of aging in place. [...]
With the population aging and the ability to treat more diseases, the world is waking up to the fact that health care delivery will need to change. A lot of what we hear in the news is motivated by po[...]
MNCHA, the Maryland National Capital Home Care Association, held their annual meeting on September 15th and 16th at the Turf Valley Resolrt and Conference Center in Ellicott City Maryland. Ankota brou[...]
In the past, if I was having trouble falling asleep at night, thinking about economics might have been the answer (counting sheep is economics), but that all changed after I read a book a few years ag[...]
One of the people who helped to organize last weeks session on the Silver Tsunami was Sherri Dorfman, from Stepping Stone Partners. She shared with me some great insights from her blog and I share the[...]
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