Tag: WellSky
WellSky launches ambient AI solution
May 6, 2026HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky says it has launched the first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ambient documentation solution purpose-built for personal care agencies. WellSky Ambient Documentation for Personal Care is embedded directly within the WellSky Personal Care platform to help care teams reduce documentation burden, accelerate client onboarding, and improve the quality and consistency of care plan documentation. “Personal care is often the most consistent...
In brief: Supplies access, WellSky partnership, NHIA awards, Dynarex expansion
April 17, 2026HME News Staff
BIDDEFORD, Maine – The United Ostomy Associations of America, Inc. (UOAA) has launched a nationwide survey for end users of ostomy and urological supplies and has invited providers to share the survey with their customers.
UOAA requests providers use the following language when promoting the survey:
“We have teamed up with UOAA and need your help. Your experience helps protect patient safety and access to the supplies you depend on. United Ostomy Associations of America, Inc. (UOAA)...
WellSky partners with Google Cloud on provider directory data
April 15, 2026HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to embed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into WellSky CarePort solutions with a focus on improving the accuracy and reliability of provider directory data used in post-acute care discharge decisions. WellSky is embedding Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini models, along with BigQuery, to power its data infrastructure. “This marks a major industry shift, with health care moving...
WellSky partners with uMed to expand access to clinical research registries
December 16, 2025HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky and uMed have announced a strategic partnership that expands patient access to national clinical research registries – longitudinal programs that track real-world patient outcomes and experience – by enabling home care patients to participate in clinical studies from their home. By combining the WellSky network of more than 10,000 home-based care organizations with uMed’s automated...
In brief: CQRC on CBP, WellSky on CarePort-Epic integration, Medtronic on new diabetes lead
December 11, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) commends the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for not including supplemental oxygen and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices and supplies in the next round of the competitive bidding program (CBP). Listening to concerns outlined by the CQRC and other oxygen stakeholders, Medicare’s decision to omit the products will lock in previous savings, while protecting patient...
WellSky integrates CarePort network with Epic Toolbox
December 11, 2025HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — WellSky’s CarePort Community Referral Network solution is now part of the Epic Toolbox category for Community Resource Network. Epic users can now initiate, send and secure referrals directly to WellSky’s network of more than 130,000 post-acute and community-based providers from within their existing Epic interface. “Providers today must continually demonstrate high quality performance, and they’re...
Study: Health care workers say technology important factor in job satisfaction
December 8, 2025HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Persistent staffing shortages, high turnover and escalating burnout are intensifying pressures across the care continuum, prompting demand for technology that drives greater efficiency, according to a workforce study released by WellSky. Ninety percent of nurses and health care professionals surveyed identified care coordination technology as valuable to the quality and efficiency of their work. Many also pointed to electronic...
In brief: DASCO’s latest JV, Transfer Master’s brand refresh, Daybreak’s new hire from Apria
November 14, 2025HME News Staff
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – DASCO Home Medical Equipment has formed a joint venture (JV) with Mass General Brigham that it says is designed to simplify the discharge process and improve access to durable medical equipment (DME) for patients transitioning from hospital to home.
Through the JV, MGB-DASCO functions as an integrated DME provider within Mass General Brigham hospitals, combining DASCO’s operational expertise and supply capabilities with MGB’s clinical...
WellSky powers providers to more easily engage with patients
November 13, 2025HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - WellSky has launched WellSky Outreach, a scalable patient engagement platform enabled by QliqSOFT, that it says will help durable medical equipment (DME), home infusion and specialty pharmacy companies reach patients in a timely way. The platform automates outreach, assists with compliance and elevates patient satisfaction – with no software coding required, the company says. "Providers are under pressure to do more with less, and patient communication is one of the...
In brief: DASCO preferred by MetroHealth, Tennr investigates costs, Permobil promotes
October 3, 2025HME News Staff
CLEVELAND – Under a new agreement DASCO Home Medical Equipment is the preferred provider of durable medical equipment (DME) and related post-discharge services for MetroHealth System patients across Northeast Ohio.
As part of the agreement, effective Oct. 1, DASCO will work closely with MetroHealth’s clinical teams to ensure patients leaving the hospital receive essential DME such as oxygen therapy, PAP devices and mobility aids quickly and reliably. The company will also...