“The Best of 2020” sounds like an oxymoron. In a year dominated by a global pandemic that’s still in full force – and the many challenges it has brought to people’s physical health, mental [...]
As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. When looking at a photograph, painting or graphic, people interpret an image in a variety of ways. Some people take a literal view and see the [...]
You’re likely familiar with Plato’s famous quote, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” COVID-19 has created new necessities in healthcare delivery – and has jump-started some waves of [...]
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic evoked tremendous change to nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Once shelter-in-place orders were implemented in communities across the country, the [...]
Telehealth is here to stay. COVID-19’s no-contact demands helped spring the telehealth genie from the bottle, and there’s no going back now. Patients and families love having the option. [...]
The first full quarter of using the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is in the books for home health providers – but those books were full of unexpected twists and turns due to COVID-19. [...]
We are continuing our series exploring the keys to success in social media for healthcare providers, specifically senior care, home health, palliative care and hospice. Our first post examined [...]
In a recent post, this blog space explored just some of the impressive performance and potential emerging through the use of telehealth and other remote care tools. Transcend’s latest podcast [...]
As COVID-19 created the need to avoid person-to-person contact, telehealth finally started to emerge as an essential tool for staying in touch with patients and families. CMS began to relax [...]
A recent conversation with Christian Sinclair, MD, AAHPM, regarding prognoses was a real eye-opener for me. Each patient’s prognosis is obviously critical to their plan of care. I had asked Dr. [...]