News

2012-05-08

New CMS Rule Encourages Home and Community-Based Care for the Elderly and Disabled. Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-cms-rule-encourages-home-and-community-based-care-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-2012-05-03

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2012-04-25

Nearly three out of four Americans who provide care for a family member or friend who is disabled, elderly or has physical or mental limitations said caregiving had at least some impact on their health, and six in 10 said caregiving caused them to lose sleep sometimes, according to a recent national survey. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/24/4438303/caregiving-affects-health-of-three.html#storylink=cpy

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2012-04-04

Baby Boomers Aware of Aging Parents' Needs, Yet Lack Vital Care Resources and Tools According to a Care.com Survey. Read more at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/baby-boomers-aware-of-aging-parents-needs-yet-lack-vital-care-resources-and-tools-according-to-a-carecom-survey-2012-04-04

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2012-03-16

CarCheq staff will be on hand as the Washtenaw County Consortium on Aging holds its first annual Washtenaw County Caregiver Fair Saturday March 17 at the Kensington Court Hotel on Hilton Boulevard in Ann Arbor. The fair is a free event, open to the public, and will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. For more information, visit: http://www.micentral.com/events/supercali/show_event.php?id=13069&o=1&c=1&m=03&a=09&y=2012&w=10

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2012-03-08

CareCheq's early adopter program continues to gain support as two more Michigan based home health agencies sign up. The early adopter program provides home health agencies with an opportunity to help shape the product experience and in return is provided with free use of the system for 6 months and an additional 6 months of use at a significant discount. To learn more about how CareCheq can increase your competitive advantage and create new revenues for your business, view the presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/carecheq/carecheq-someone-you-love

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2012-03-07

CareCheq plans to double staff as its online community grows. The co-founders of CareCheq know firsthand the challenges of taking care of elderly family members who are strong enough to still live at home but not healthy enough to live independently. Those experiences led them to create a start-up that provides an online portal for family members and caregivers to connect. To read more, go to: http://www.concentratemedia.com/innovationnews/carecheqannarbor0185.aspx

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2012-02-25

CareCheq just launched it's Use-It-For-Free, Early Adopter Program (EAP) and is looking for innovative businesses willing to field test the product. There is no charge for participation and you'll have free access to the software for the next 6 months with an additional 6 months of access at a reduced fee for participating in the program. For more information, go to our site at CareCheq.com OR check out our presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/carecheq

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2012-02-20

CareCheq Issues New HIPAA Statement: CareCheq is committed to identifying meaningful solutions to the challenges our customers face on various fronts. This customer commitment requires that we keep in step with industry legislative and regulatory initiatives such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). HIPAA's privacy and security regulations require our customers to monitor and limit the ways in which patients' confidential information is accessed, utilized, stored, transmitted, and disposed. We realize our customers must comply with HIPAA's complex privacy and security standards, and, that their compliance activities may include seeking assistance from CareCheq in those cases where CareCheq has access to patients' confidential information when it comes out of activities on behalf of customers and when conducting their security risk assessments. To that end, CAreCheq has established processes to facilitate our customers' compliance to HIPAA privacy and security requirements. CareCheq has implemented the Administrative Simplification requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 as described below: The Electronic Transactions and Code Set Standards have been implemented. The requirements of the HIPAA Privacy rule have been implemented. CareCheq meets HIPAA security rule requirements. Changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) have been included in the Economic Stimulus Bill signed on February 17, 2009. CareCheq is aware of the new requirements and efforts are underway to implement the new HIPAA requirements as mandated.

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2012-02-11

Alzheimer's Families Clamor for Drug: By SHIRLEY S. WANG: A study published Thursday in the journal Science, was conducted in mice, and the road to an effective Alzheimer's treatment is littered with failures that looked promising early on in animals. "The Alzheimer's community is very desperate for anything that shows any sign of hope or promise," said Eric Hall, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, a New York-based advocacy organization that started to field calls from consumers as soon as the paper was published. While Mr. Hall said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the drug, which appears to clear a sticky substance called amyloid from the brains of Alzheimer's mice, "I don't think people should be taking this in their own hands or running to it," he said. Sam Gandy, a neurology professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and associate director of its Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, said he wasn't surprised to get inquiries from patients about bexarotene, as they also often ask for off-label use of another treatment on the market, intravenous immunoglobulin, which costs about $50,000 a year and is given in time-consuming infusions. "To patients and families who are this motivated, the idea of an off-label pill is not a major leap," he said. The cost would be $1,200 or more a month and unlikely to be covered by insurance, Dr. Gandy said.

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2012-02-06

Seniors and Caregivers Connect Online By Ryan Malone There’s a pervasive notion out there that older people can’t, or don’t want to, use computers. Facebook fan pages like I Hate Teaching Old People How To Use Computers, boasting over 200 members, Yahoo! chat forums, the Lifestyle section of some newspapers and guests at cocktail parties can all be counted on for stories of someone’s mother/grandfather/elderly neighbor messing up when it comes to computers and getting online. These anecdotes spread and grow and eventually morph into a general perception that seniors and technology don’t mix. The reality, however, isn’t so clear-cut. Read more at: http://www.insideeldercare.com/family-life/seniors-and-caregivers-connect-online/

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2011-12-28

Harvard study focuses on hospital readmission rates. The increasing use of hospital services may be contributing more to high readmission rates than the severity of patients' conditions or the care they receive after being discharged, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The study, which appears in the Dec. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is the latest research on a hot-button health care issue related to cost and quality of care. Avoidable readmissions cost Medicare an estimated $12 billion annually, said Karen Southard, program manager for Patient Safety/Care Transitions at the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence.

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2011-10-16

CareCheq unveiled its home health care solution at the 12th annual Solutions for Family Caregivers Expo in Novi, MI. Company representatives met with more than 35 potential business partners and conducted more than 50 demonstrations during the Expo, marking a successful and significant step in establishing CareCheq as a viable product in the home health (B2B) and family (B2C) caregiver markets.

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2011-10-10

CareCheq is now serving Unlimited Home Care, a home-help service administered by the Michigan Department of Human Services. Unlimited Home Care provides services in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Kent counties.

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2011-10-06

CareCheq will unveil its new health care focused social media platform at the 12th Annual Solutions for Family Caregiver Expo, held in the Diamond Center at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI. (Saturday Oct 15th, 9am-2pm). Please stop by at the CareCheq booth to learn how this cloud based, innovative product can help your family stay involved in the care of a loved one, or help your business enhance the quality and delivery of services, increase referrals, retention rates and create new revenue opportunities.

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2011-10-04

CareCheq executives attended the 30th Annual NAHC conference in Las Vegas, NV. The goals for many of the exhibited products were to improve outcomes, reduce hospitalizations and to strengthen referral relationships. As a new entry in the Caregiver Solutions space, the conference offered an incredible learing and networking opportunity for the CareCheq team.