Greetings everyone! It's been a while since I provided a snapshot of what's going on with MEDITECH Home Care. Our market has been extremely active throughout 2010, and I'm excited to report that our first two quarters were among our largest ever for Home Care bookings. The industry is recognizing the value of home care in the health care continuum, and is taking note of the integration between our Home Care solutions and HCIS.    ::more::

MEDITECH is delighted to announce that the following sites have recently joined our 6.0 Home Care Community.   ::more::

CFOs, home health agency directors, and I.T leaders from across the country recently met for one of the largest national home care trade shows, the 2010 Financial Management Conference & Exposition. Sponsored by NAHC and HHFMA, the event enabled home care professionals to share their views on using new technologies to help improve their bottom lines.    ::more::

Citizens Memorial Healthcare is an enterprise known for its extraordinary achievements. As the first rural health system and nonacademic medical center to receive the Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence in 2005, and the first MEDITECH customer to achieve Stage 7 EMR Adoption recognition from HIMSS Analytics, Citizens Memorial is always raising the bar on quality health care.   ::more::

There's no question that amidst mounting pressures being placed on home care agencies—including Medicare reimbursement changes, the threat of Recovery Auditor Contractors (RAC) audits, and of course, health care reform—it can be very overwhelming to juggle the daily responsibilities of running a business.  ::more::

Back in 1968, back when LeAnn Thieman graduated from nursing school, a typical workload for nurses working in a post-operative surgical unit involved monitoring perhaps only four patients at one time. Today, the former nurse and author of the book Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul marvels at how demands placed on her profession have dramatically increased over the years. ::more::

MEDITECH is delighted to announce that the following sites have recently joined our Home Care Community: East Tennessee Children's Hospital (Knoxville, TN), Freeman Health System (Joplin, MO), and Hi-Desert Medical Center (Joshua Tree, CA).   ::more::

MEDITECH will feature its Telehealth product during this year's 15th Annual International Meeting of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) in San Antonio, Texas. The event occurs during May 16-18, and we'll be exhibiting at show booth number 1020.   ::more::

MEDITECH is currently working on a solution for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Home Health Care Survey, both for regulatory requirements and vendor-specific field requirements.   ::more::

Earlier this year, our new Home Care Web portal replaced both www.ptct.com and The Conductor e-newsletter. As part of this update, we are currently evaluating the Customer Support side of the PtCT Web site and transitioning some of this content to MEDITECH.com.   ::more::

What does the full merger of PtCT into MEDITECH mean to our customers? We sat down with two key players—Vice President of Marketing Hoda Sayed-Friel and Director of Home Care Sales Brian Doyle—to dig deeper into the future of our home care products and to learn more about "Care Without Walls."  ::more::

On December 21, all of our Home Care customers received this letter from Lawrence A. Polimeno, Vice Chairman of MEDITECH and previously CEO of Patient Care Technologies. Larry welcomed everyone into the MEDITECH family and outlined the details of the merger. ::more::