Tag: Analytics

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - WellSky and Qlik, a data and analytics company, have launched a “heat map” feature for home care providers. The WellSky COVID-19 Tracker allows providers to leverage data to track current outbreaks, anticipate locations with increasing infection rates and distribute valuable PPE based on where it's needed most. “With information changing daily, care providers need up-to-date data on where they should focus their attention and finite resources,” said Bill...

HARTFORD, Conn. - CareCentrix has teamed up with Performant Financial Corporation, the new national RAC for DME, home health and hospice, to deploy specialized analytics and algorithms to better identify and decrease waste and fraud, it announced May 23.“You only need to look at recent headlines to know that the problems of fraud, waste and abuse are only increasing,” said John Driscoll, CareCentrix CEO, in a press release. “CareCentrix is committed to bending the cost curve in...

ST. LOUIS - A brain trust of HME providers met for the HME News Business Summit last week to discuss—not the obstacles of the moment—but the opportunities of the future.One speaker said the way to grab those opportunities by the horns is thinking progressively.“What's going on in Washington, D.C., isn't going to stop,” said Mike Bailey, CEO of Handi Medical Supply, who sat on a panel of HME Excellence Award winners. “The providers who are going to make it—I don't...

I had two super interesting conference calls this week with the speakers for two panel discussions at the HME News Business Summit—one on big data; the other on life after the deal. I'm really wowed by the experience and the knowledge of these speakers, and I think you will be, too. A little bit of background, in case you haven't poured over the education program for this year's Summit like I have. The session on big data will address 1.) the trend of analytics in health care at large and 2.)...