John O'Connor

For those unable or unwilling to leave home for a COVID-19 test, Walmart is trying out a unique experiment: bringing the test to customers’ homes, via drone.

When post-acute patients transfer to a home care setting, needed information often can get lost. But by implementing and further developing Continuity of Care Document standard codes, home care operators can greatly reduce this problem, a new study finds.

Getting medications to home care recipients in large metropolitan areas can be a challenge. Especially if the nurse carrying them is delayed. Finland’s largest city has found a way around the problem: robots.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized an alternative payment model for patients with chronic kidney disease.

Many home care operators viewed the looming Patient-Driven Grouping Model with a combination of angst and dread. Nearly a year into Medicare’s new classification and payment system, such concerns hardly seem unjustified. Still, some observers see current conditions as little more than growing pains.

Although the ongoing pandemic has been tough on the elderly, it has been particularly cruel to those with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In fact, deaths linked to this group jumped by more than 20% during the summer months, according to a report from Politico.