Technology

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 [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has many of us taking an unexpected hiatus from the office for a TBD period of time. While many in healthcare and senior care aren’t afforded the luxury of working remotely [...]

COVID-19 has had tremendous impacts on life in America. Social distancing has changed the very nature of how we interact. Deeper layers of PPE and denials of access separate caregivers and [...]

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. [...]

This is the third post in our series exploring the keys to success in social media for healthcare providers, specifically senior care, home health, palliative care and hospice. We began the [...]

Last month, we kicked off a series of blog posts focused on ways to approach your social media efforts with purpose and intent. The first post, “Avoid the 7 ‘deadly sins’ of social media,” took a [...]