CareAnyware announced today that the company will be collaborating with Weill Cornell Medical College for a critical study on clinical depression in home care patients sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Telephony increases accuracy, trims costs, and reduces the potential for fraud by allowing clinicians to log crucial visit information while in the field.

1st Choice Home Health Care, headquartered in Commerce, TX, has selected and implemented CareAnyware’s home care software solution to manage their agency, which provides services to patients across roughly 3,500 square miles in Texas. Implementation of CareAnyware’s solution is central to 1st Choice Home Health’s effort to simplify billing and financial processes as well as automate their clinical documentation.

CareAnyware announced today that they are offering fully integrated document scanning functionality as part of their core home care and hospice software.  Document scanning enables CareAnyware’s customers to store patient, employee, and administrative documents in one secure location with document retrieval and access functionality fully integrated throughout the system.  In addition, all documents are indexed by type and date allowing for easy filtering through CareAnyware’s powerful reporting engine.

Caprock Home Health Services Inc., headquartered in Lubbock TX is the most recent home care organization to choose CareAnyware’s web-based software to manage their operations statewide.  With five major offices and five branches employing approximately 2,000 employees servicing virtually every county in Texas, Caprock required a software solution that would automate their existing paper-based system and improve order compliance, while gaining greater control of their business through comprehensive billing and financial reporting capabilities.

Hospice Care of South Carolina (HCSC) is the most recent hospice organization to choose CareAnyware’s web-based software to manage their operations in 25 locations statewide.  Implementation of CareAnyware is a key part of HCSC’s strategy to improve automation at the point-of-care (POC) while gaining greater control of their business through comprehensive scheduling, billing and management reporting.
(February 2010)

CareAnyware announced today that FirstChoice Home Health of Cleveland, Ohio is the most recent home care organization to implement CareAnyware’s web-based software to manage operations in all of their locations statewide.  FirstChoice will use CareAnyware to replace their client/server solution and centralize the management of operations for their six locations across Ohio.
(January 2010)

CareAnyware’s unique web-based delivery platform enables their clients to be among the first home care organizations in the nation to begin using the new “Grouper” functionality for OASIS-C.
(December 2009)

Recent regulatory changes for both home health and hospice drove Douglas County VNA to seek a home care and hospice software solution that would keep pace with new operating requirements, support a variety of services, and improve interdisciplinary team communications while automating clinical data gathering
(November 2009)

The team at Mercy Memorial Hospice of Monroe and HomeCare Connection knew they wanted a technology partner that was a good fit for their business. They considered a wide range of automation options including implementing the existing hospital-wide system from a major vendor. They chose a web-based solution from CareAnyware because it allowed financial oversight by their parent hospital organization without adding to their burden of IT support.
(October 2009)

CareAnyware, Inc. announced that during the past twelve months the Company has doubled the number of hospice organizations using CareAnyware for web-based point-of-care, billing, and administrative automation. With hospice clients now in 17 states, CareAnyware is currently supporting the mission of providing quality palliative and end-of-life-care for home and in-patient facilities, free-standing, hospital-based, for profit, and not-for profit hospice organizations.
(September 2009)

After conducting an extensive technology review, Middle River Hospice, located in Winterset, Iowa, was pleased to discover that an organization with a small average daily census could obtain a software product as complete as CareAnyware thanks to a unique web-based delivery approach. The CareAnyware Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is now key to facilitating improved patient care and automating interdisciplinary team communications at Middle River.
(June 2009)
 

"Managing the impact of continual regulatory and process changes without compromising patient care is the reality of being a hospice organization," says Pam Melbourne, CEO, Hospice of the Upstate. “We are pleased to have selected CareAnyware to help us with this ongoing challenge. The web-based delivery of their solution means we don’t need a data center, and the design of the clinical application is intuitive and easy for our staff to use at the point-of-care. CareAnyware’s comprehensive training approach means that the solution can be implemented quickly with minimal impact on our delivery of services.”
(September 2008)

"To effectively meet the new CoPs, Hospice organizations need clinical automation," explains Susan Bennett, Executive Clinical Director of Spanish Oaks.  "With CareAnyware, Hospice clinicians at the Point-of-Care have the ability to prepare comprehensive assessments, support an efficient IDT process, and meet new visit data collection requirements for billing." 
(August 2008)

"This was our first real Home Health software system and we wanted to ensure that we purchased a system that would be with us for years to come," says Victoria Brown, CFO, Shepherd of the Valley in Youngstown, Ohio.  Brown and her team selected the SaaS solution from CareAnyware after a comprehensive analysis of vendor solutions concluding that CareAnyware's web-based technology offered many advantages and was a better long-term technological investment than a traditional client-server system. 
(June 2008)

"Agencies are looking for ways to improve efficiencies, reduce coding and documentation errors and maximize payment," said Rich Guerin, CEO of CareAnyware. "Pairing the leader in web-based agency management with the leader in web-based decision support and benchmarking gives agencies precisely what they're looking for. They get direct access to high-level and drill-down views of key financial, administrative, and clinical performance metrics."
(June 2008)

"CareAnyware listened to our needs and delivered a true hospice solution," says Marcia McGrew, Director of McDonough Hospital Home Health and Hospice. "Our clinicians like the integrated palliative performance scale, falls risk and comprehensive skin assessments, and simplified hospice care planning. And the CareAnyware team is always available and very knowledgeable, should you need assistance." (December 2007)

We are pleased to welcome two such distinguished agencies to our client roster," said CareAnyware CEO Rich Guerin. "Both Cathleen Naughton and Home Care Advantage are family owned agencies that have provided quality home care for a number of years to the Rhode Island community. Both agencies conducted extensive software searches, evaluating a number of vendors, and we're honored that they've chosen CareAnyware as their technology partner.
(November 2007)

"We are a small but growing agency and we were faced with a decision to invest in software or grow our overhead through additional staffing for data entry and office support," said Melissa Lear, President of Allen Lear Home Care. "With CareAnyware we were able to bring a powerful software management tool and all of its benefits into our agency and continue growing without increasing our in-office staff."
(November 2007)

According to Rebecca Warren, RN BSN Stokes County Home Health Supervisor, "To identify the best long term solution for Stokes County Home Health, our team reviewed systems from both small local vendors as well the leading national vendors in the industry. We concluded that growth in new technology; adoption of electronic medical records at the point of care and rapid regulatory changes in our industry favored a rapidly growing web-based vendor like CareAnyware with a strong implementation & training organization well experienced in rolling out point of care automation successfully to users here in North Carolina."
(September 2007)

According to Larry Smith, Director, "To identify the best solution for Touro at Home, our team reviewed systems from the leading vendors in the industry. Our selection team included nurses with prior experience using other clinical point of care solutions, and based on their feedback we steered away from products with very small screens and complex interfaces."
(May 2007)

"Investing in an agency management solution is an important decision," says Linda Vacon, CEO of Auburn District Nursing. "We decided on the CareAnyware system because of the quality and ease of use of its laptop-based, point-of-care tool. Another deciding factor was that the solution is web-based, which lowers our total cost of ownership and ensures that the software will remain current to protect our investment into the future."
(April 2007)