Caregivers
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Who is Supporting Family Caregivers?
The role of the family caregiver is considered part of the cycle of life. But it can be time consuming and stressful, especially if caregivers have to balance their role with a job, raising children, and other aspects of family life. The topic will be one of many discussed at the HLTH event in Las Vegas from October 8-11.
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Why Tomorrow Health’s CEO Is Calling for More Caregiver Reimbursement
To address the burden faced by family caregivers across the country, Tomorrow Health CEO Vijay Kedar argues that the U.S. healthcare system should expand its reimbursement for the care they provide. Not only is caregiving physically and emotionally taxing, but it can also cause severe financial strain —many caregivers take time off work and spend their own money to support their loved ones’ care, he explained.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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This Startup is Proving that Family Caregivers Have the Power to Lower Admissions and Reduce Costs
Reducing hospitalizations for frail elderly members is a major challenge for Medicare Advantage payers and providers. The key to avoiding any hospitalization is to detect and address a change in condition before it worsens. Ceresti Co-founder and CEO Dirk Soenksen talks about how his company is addressing these needs.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer, Patient Engagement
Building and mobilizing your community: Addressing challenges in engaging patients and caregivers
Some of the challenges patient advocacy organizations face include engaging diverse, hard-to-reach communities, reaching patients at the point of diagnosis, and providing meaningful resources, value and consistent engagement.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
When even a doctor feels abandoned after a procedure, it’s time to re-invent recovery
By creating a focused approach to the transition to the home and often prolonged recovery journey, while taking each person’s life context into account, we can make sure that no patient feels abandoned by the health care system once they leave the hospital.
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Sharecare buys online caregiver marketplace CareLinx for $65M
The home care platform brought in $5 million in revenue last year. Sharecare plans to sell the service to its health plans and provider customers.
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Working 9-to-3: Addressing the social determinants of aging
A new home-support model is needed to enable the growing 65+ generation to maintain their independence.
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CareTribe finds caregivers need support, too
The Palo Alto-based startup provides tools to support family caregivers, and uses predictive analytics to help them develop personalized action plans.
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Village Capital report zeroes in on reimagining senior care
The report from the venture capital firm looks at how startups are innovating within the senior care space, particularly when it comes to caregiving, clinical insights and financial planning.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Kindly Care wraps up $5.4M round to bring on additional caregivers
The San Francisco startup, which helps families find caregivers for their aging loved ones, will use the money from the round led by Javelin Venture Partners to expand and onboard additional caregivers.
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Honor raises $50M to expand caregiver support as CMS adds flexibility for home care services coverage (Updated)
Honor’s fundraise paves the way for further expansion following a decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to enable Medicare Advantage plans to cover non-medical home care services as a supplemental benefit starting in 2019.
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Kaiser Permanente, Village Capital unveil 10 startups in Health: US 2018 program
The 10 startups that made the cut for Health: US 2018, the venture development program headed up by Village Capital and Kaiser Permanente, seek to address the needs of America’s aging population.
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Functionality, usability cited as barriers to adoption of caregiver digital health tools in AARP report
HITLAB carried out three studies between May 2016 through January 2017 in which caregivers assessed care coordination tools, personal emergency response devices, and home care aide hiring tools and provided feedback on their experience.
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Bringing the caregiver’s voice to the forefront
A panel discussion on family caregivers raised questions of how they balance those responsibilities with their jobs at the sixth annual BIO Patient and Health Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C.
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HIMSS releases interoperability call to action
Stating that now is the time for “bold action,” the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has issued a six-pronged call focused on interoperability.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
