Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Wisconsin Integrated Health Agencies 2 Meet The 2.5 Percent Challenge

With the roll out of Wisconsin's new Family Care IRIS 2.0 the (IHA's) Integrated Health Agencies (insurance plans) will be challenged to assure service with a margin of 2.5 percent.  For this to occur the State will need to support provisions conversion to a value based delivery. 

In 2014 Milliman Inc performed an actuarial analysis of Wisconsin Family Care Long Term Care Services expenditures and capitation rate model.  Since then 2 contracted Care Management Organizations no longer operate due to fiscal (no money) difficulties.  From the existing data the State budgetary committees forecast 5 percent would create unsustainable profits for Integrated Health Agencies. 

The financial structure being brought forward indicates 85 percent of the time Wisconsin capitation payments made to Integrated Health Agencies are expected to be within plus/minus 2.5 percent of the Integrated Health Agencies actual annual service cost for the contracted service.

This communicates the core of establishing (tighter margins) rates within a service agreement.  Acceptable risk then becomes the percentage of program members eligible for service in the absence of adequate provision.

The program is challenged to establish an acceptable (risk tolerance) percentage of program members eligible for help but going through their day with unmet needs. This communicates an essential need for a value based provider network to assure quality and safety.  Lack of provision figures in to the calculation of risk as a participating measure in program success.

Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Wisconsins Elements Of Strategic Edge 4 Tech Start Ups

That Wisconsin is host to this research driven tech health innovation is beyond impressive - it is mind blowing.  The traditional path for a community level intervention of this caliber would flow from a closed university process.  College staff would be engaged in a typical discovery to product fashion.

The College would rapidly connect the work to a pay source like money from the National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation.  This grant money would carry the project till a Small Business Innovations Research Grant can be secured. 

This bulky process does not assure commercialization of the innovation.  The community can be waiting on hold for quite a while before experiencing a benefit.  In Wisconsin's strong start up advice industry the ways a community can begin to experience benefits is varied and many. 

In Wisconsin a dementia platform is being constructed within a well known supportive care provider's pipeline delivery model.  This is a research driven approach designed to strengthen the ability of families who reside in rural hard to serve areas to get the help they need to care for an elder experiencing the undesired symptoms of dementia.

Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.


Saturday, May 28, 2016

Social Commerce Supports Collaboration 2 Transform Public Goods

The new Home Care Path platform supports collaboration and information sharing to strengthen the usefulness of the publicly available goods. This design element reduces risk across the entire network.

Freely sharing https://homecarepath.sharepoint.com/Pages/TrackMemory2Zero.aspx
what was once intellectual property invites users to replicate and improve the utilization within their local setting. 

This expectation for creating and further contributing becomes a standard which enriches the eco system as a whole.  This is a huge shift in which the family is not being sold something by
an expert (salesperson) consultant - but finding the value being communicated directly through the evidence based provision. 

This elevates the senior support partners practice to assure greater access to a means to profit from their important work.  This essentially demonstrates the strategy for mutually beneficial engagement.


Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.


Friday, May 27, 2016

INFECTION PREVENTION IN A GLOBAL GRID



 
Universal precautions involves using supplies to eliminate contact with another’s body fluids .

Microscopic organisms within the body fluids can contribute to the transmission of infection. 

The microscopic organisms continually evolve to interact in new ways and emerge.

Sharing information and technique is a primary means of preventing emerging infection.

The sharing of information is organized in the construct below:

                Centers for Disease Control (Federal) authorizes

The Emerging Infections Program to structure a network for sharing information

               Public Health at the State level communicates across

County Public Health – Research College – Lab – Inpatient Provider – Community Provider

Who get the message out to local community members.

Home Care Path participates in the sharing of timely information and employing new techniques to prevent the transmission of evolved microscopic organisms with increasing appearance in the service population.

Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.
                      

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Seniors Excited US Foods Goes Public NYSE Symbol USFD

Seniors are excited to see the familiar US Foods going public today on the NYSE -New York Stock Exchange with symbol USFD.  This is expected to embolden market investors who understand the underlying mission is to improve access to fresh foods. 

The US Foods Corporation has demonstrated success with implementing a progressive approach to moving products which the community desires due to the ongoing removal of artificial ingredients.  Founded in 1989 and Headquartered in Rosemont Illinois , and leading communication initiatives that seem to make the brands come alive. 

The IPO- initial public stock offering is expected to be about 23.00 per share.  The staff of Home Care Path would like to take this opportunity to wish US Foods continued success. 

Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.


Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Wisconsin Alzheimers Family Caregiver Support Program

The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Family Care Giver Support Program is delivered through the (ADRC) Aging and Disability Resource Centers under the administration of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

If you are home with an elder diagnosed with dementia and have an annual income under 48 thousand dollars you can go to the Aging and Disability Resource Center and ask for a Benefit Specialist to help.  The Benefit Specialist will document:

- you are caring for someone with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or Dementia

- the person you are helping lives in the home setting - not a facility

- your gross income is 48 thousand dollars or less after deducting the costs related to the care of a person with dementia

Part of this benefit is to connect you with greater resources in the community.  Home Care Path is constructing a multisided platform designed to help match families with dementia needs to local support partners who can give the primary care giver a much needed break.

Take a first peek https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about at the open structure designed to strengthen a families access to the help they need in real time.  Families can list their need and support partners can list their availability.  This concise application exists to save families precious time and resources they so desperately need to effectively care for their loved one.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

VA As Partial Secondary Insurance Staab 14-0957 Private Pay Litigation

On April 8, 2016 the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims ruled in favor of Richard W. Staab.  The litigation is titled Richard W. Staab verses Robert A. McDonald (Secretary of Veteran's Affairs).

In, 2009 Congress enacted the Emergency Care Fairness Act which required the VA to step in as a secondary payer where typical health plans (Medicare) only cover a portion of the billed treatment.  Now Veterans who file claims for care outside the VA System in urgent situations can view the VA as a partial secondary insurance. 

From this litigation readers can expect the Department of Veterans Affairs to:

   1. Update (amend) guidelines to meet regulations

   2. Re-train staff on updated guidelines

   3. Evaluate process to assure families receive the reimbursement that they are legally entitled to for emergency medical expenses

This is beneficial for the entire community who understands how Veterans often have to receive urgent medical treatment outside the VA delivery system. 

        Need  Support  For  Elder  With  Dementia Symptoms

This platform is a familiar place for families to list their need and support partners to list their available hours. 
https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about


Monday, May 23, 2016

Leveraging Technology 2 Help Families Experiencing Dementia

This platform is a familiar place for families to list their need and support partners to list their available hours. 
https://www.homecarepathdementiasupport.com/en/infos/about

This provides your community with the opportunity to help families experiencing dementia. This is a community health style intervention designed to improve a families access to needed support when residing in a hard to serve rural area. 

This multisided dementia support platform is embedded with value based strategies expected to help the community providers achieve the national dementia care redesign outcomes.  The outcomes:

1. early engagement
2. crisis prevention
3. keep seniors home longer

Born of a partnership between Home Care Path and Sharetribe this Dementia Support Platform has only begun to foster an application of service to best meet the earliest phase of the undesired symptoms of dementia. 

Contact:   Home Care Path  -successfully serving families since 2010
                 608-432-4286
                 dementiasupport@homecarepath.com