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INS meets with the Director of Georgia Community Health May 27, 2009

Members of the INS executive team meet with Dr. Rhonda Meadows and her staff in Atlanta to present the INS concept and to address regulatory issues surrounding initiation of the demonstration project.

 

Dr. Meadows and her staff showed considerable interest in the INS concept and quickly identified two primary concerns for us to deal with.

The one primary obstacle to be overcome is the Georgia Certificate of Need (CON) requirement.  In healthcare CON is often associated with stifling competition while functioning in its primary role protecting the interests of investors in the capital intensive facilities.  Regard less of how you feel about it if you want to do business in Georgia you must comply.  There are no provisions or exemptions for demonstration projects. Therefore INS must either purchase an existing home health agency or partner with a home health agency in order for the demonstration project to become a reality.


The second item of concern is related to scope of practice concerns.  It appears that the physician lobby has a laser focus on protecting scope of practice and will fight any expansion of healthcare delivery to non-physician providers.  INS has not intention of changing scope of practice.


Stay tuned for updates on INS meetings with home health agencies.




INS meets with the Director of Georgia Community Health May 27, 2009

Members of the INS executive team meet with Dr. Rhonda Meadows and her staff in Atlanta to present the INS concept and to address regulatory issues surrounding initiation of the demonstration project.

 

Dr. Meadows and her staff showed considerable interest in the INS concept and quickly identified two primary concerns for us to deal with.

The one primary obstacle to be overcome is the Georgia Certificate of Need (CON) requirement.  In healthcare CON is often associated with stifling competition while functioning in its primary role protecting the interests of investors in the capital intensive facilities.  Regard less of how you feel about it if you want to do business in Georgia you must comply.  There are no provisions or exemptions for demonstration projects. Therefore INS must either purchase an existing home health agency or partner with a home health agency in order for the demonstration project to become a reality.


The second item of concern is related to scope of practice concerns.  It appears that the physician lobby has a laser focus on protecting scope of practice and will fight any expansion of healthcare delivery to non-physician providers.  INS has not intention of changing scope of practice.


Stay tuned for updates on INS meetings with home health agencies.






Dr. Meadows and her staff showed considerable interest in the INS concept and quickly identified two primary concerns for us to deal with.

The one primary obstacle to be overcome is the Georgia Certificate of Need (CON) requirement.  In healthcare CON is often associated with stifling competition while functioning in its primary role protecting the interests of investors in the capital intensive facilities.  Regard less of how you feel about it if you want to do business in Georgia you must comply.  There are no provisions or exemptions for demonstration projects. Therefore INS must either purchase an existing home health agency or partner with a home health agency in order for the demonstration project to become a reality.


The second item of concern is related to scope of practice concerns.  It appears that the physician lobby has a laser focus on protecting scope of practice and will fight any expansion of healthcare delivery to non-physician providers.  INS has not intention of changing scope of practice.


Stay tuned for updates on INS meetings with home health agencies.

Chicago April 5-7, 2009

INS representatives spent three exciting days at the HIMSS conference in Chicago as the guest of IBM and ANAKAM. INS CEO Carl Hawkins immersed himself in the latest healthcare technology, attending meetings, presenting the INS concept and identifying partners, systems, tools and products to fill the tool chest of the nurses subscribing to the INS delivery model.  The current enthusiasm for  HIE / EHR lend themselves well to the INS concept.

 

Discussions and Relationships developed at HIMSS included:

  1. Allscripts as a Home health systems partner
  2. M*Modal as a speech recognition CDA documentation provider
  3. IBM as an infrastructure provider
  4. ANAKAM as an access security provider
  5. Intel POC and home monitoring hardware provider
  6. ATT as an infrastructure provider
  7. Vivago activity monitoring systems
  8. Phillips home monitoring hardware and systems provider

 

Over the next two months INS will consolidate these vendor relationships and begin the process of building out the technology delivery components of the INS solution.  INS came away from Chicago energized, this is an extremely exciting time for healthcare in general and INS is at the right thing at the right time.


National Association of Home Care and Hospice
March on Washington and Law Symnposium
National Association for Home Care and Hospice
 March on Washington and Law Symposium March 22 - 25, 2009


It’s Time to Advocate for the Issues Affecting Home Care and Hospice


Join NAHC and home care and hospice professionals from around the country. The 2009 Home Care & Hospice March on Washington and Law Symposium Conference & Exposition will take place in Washington, D.C., March 22-25, 2009, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.

This important conference highlights the critical homecare and hospice issues and priorities for the upcoming year, as well as provides attendees with excellent networking opportunities, first-rate education programming and celebrated keynote speakers at each daily general session.

The importance of grassroots advocacy will take on added urgency in 2009 with a new President stepping into the Oval Office. The homecare and hospice community must unite to bring the issues affecting the industry to the front of the public policy debate. Attendees will spend Tuesday, March 24, advocating on behalf of the aged, infirm and disabled Americans, as we March on Washington to speak to Members of the House and Senate and their representatives.

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Independent Nurse Services Founders go to Washington DC
Posted 3.19.2009

The leadership at Independent Nurse Services (INS) has completed interviews, data gathering, design and the financial modeling process associated with building the INS business model. 

The next step in the INS product development cycle will be addressing legal and regulatory constraints.  To that effect co-founder Carl Hawkins will be traveling with other members of the INS team to Washington DC the week of March 23rd.  Plans include participating in the March on Washington with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, meet with members of the Georgia Congressional Delegation.

This Washington DC trip begin the formal process of acquiring the necessary approvals for the INS proof of concept trial.    INS representatives will also be meetings with NIH staff regarding information technology infrastructure build out and the creation of the appropriate environment for successful completing the INS proof of concept and resulting analysis.

Washington DC March 18, 2009

The INS Washington trip was a great success. CEO, Carl Hawkins presented the INS concept to healthcare Legislative Specialists of US Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss.  Empowering individual nurses with the tools and support to build a more cost effective delivery model with improved clinical results within independent home healthcare practices was warmly received.   Tyler Thompson and Justine Clay from the Isakson and Chambliss offices respectively have committed to working together on behalf of INS to set up meetings with key CMS and NIH officials to lay the ground work for implementing the INS proof of concept pilot. 

Successful meetings were also completed with Georgia Members of the US House of Representatives.  Dr. Paul Broun and his legislative assistant Jack Smedile and Congressman Nathan Deal's legislative assistant Blake Fulenwider sat through the INS presentation and as in the meetings with Georgia’s Senators our Congressmen recognize the opportunity, have promised assistance and will support the INS proof of concept pilot.

 

The engagement of our legislative leaders in making INS a reality is a key step to making Georgia a showcase for the INS concept and ground zero for a revolution in home healthcare delivery.


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