About the Industry
Homecare aims to make it possible for people to remain at home rather than use residential, long-term, or institutional-based nursing care. Homecare providers render services in the client's own home. These services may include some combination of professional health care services and life assistance services.
Professional Home Health services could include medical or psychological assessment, wound care, medication teaching, pain management, disease education and management, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy. Homecare is a passion driven industry working to help make everyone's life better.
CellTrak is a leading provider of homecare technology solutions across North America. This includes the homecare, home health care, hospice and private duty markets. The Homecare industry has several important reference points about the industry, technologies in use, the roadmap for improved care and how leading homecare providing companies are leveraging the latest mobile technologies at the point of care to provide improved care.
Compliance, security, HIPAA, HITech and ePHI are all important initiatives to protect personal health information in the homecare industry. Using the industry leading BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) from RIM provides that foundation for a secured and managed foundation for mobile device usage. See more on these key compliance capabilities with the following video from RIM.
Global mHealth Developer Survey report
The smartphone hype has brought some exciting changes to the traditional mobile health industry. The survey reveals that the impact the new smartphone app market has on mHealth is significant. To download the Global mHealth Developer Survey report from research2guidance please click here.
2010 TripleTree Report on mHealth.
"Wireless and mobile deliver is not only redefining healthcare, but is streamlining its delivery and consumption within various settings - making it faster, more accurate and cost effective".
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2010 TripleTree Report on Healthcare Compliance
Report focused on the broad, deep reaches and mounting financial, clinical and legal implications of healthcare compliance.
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VDC Report - Wireless Homecare Solutions
Addressing the quality of service and the performance gap the report looks at the industry through 2015
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Fazzi Study - The National State of the Homecare Industry
Sponsored by BlackBerry and NAHC the study looks at Homecare 2010 and beyond
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TripleTree Report on Wireless & Mobile Health
Applications, devices, services, and infrastructure converge as patients and providers take responsibility for cost, quality, and access to healthcare.
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NAHC - National Association of Homecare and Hospice
Nation's largest trade association representing the interests and concerns of home care agencies, hospices, and home care aide organizations.
Link to site www.nahc.org
CHCA - Canadian Homecare Association
National not-for-profit membership Association dedicated to ensuring the availability of accessible, responsive home care and community supports which enable people to stay in their homes with safety, dignity and quality of life.
Link to site www.cdnhomecare.ca
High Impact Practices
High Impact Practices, as defined by the Canadian Home Care Association (CHCA) are evidence-informed, innovative practices within the home and community care sector that enhance the quality and effectiveness of service and result in improved quality of life for clients and their families. By identifying and sharing High Impact Practices, the CHCA facilitates sharing and transferring of knowledge, expertise and experience. See the StarTrak solution success at WeCare using CellTrak.
Newsletter - Home Health News by Tim Rowan
Industry leading newsletter Tackling the Toughest issues facing Homecare and Hospice
Free Newsletter www.homehealthnews.org
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Workgroup
The mission of the EVV Standards Workgroup for Home Care is to provide education and raise awareness on the merits and advantages of available solutions to stakeholders including payers, back-office software vendors, homecare and hospice providers, and home care recipients. Fraud and abuse costs payers and taxpayers billions of dollars annually and home care’s distributed delivery environment makes accountability of visits and services more challenging than in centralized, facility-based care models. The benefits of home-based care delivery range from both a cost savings and a patient results perspectives. EVV, when combined with manageable policies and procedures and back-office scheduling/billing/payroll software, can significantly improve accountability to assure states that services are being delivered to care recipients when and where providers claim they are and providers are able to manage this service delivery with reasonable, sustainable expense.
Join the EVV Work group at www.evvworkgroup.org
