News and insights to help hospitals and plans connect to one of the most important destinations of care: the home.
100+ Hospitals Approved for Hospital at Home Waiver
In an effort to increase hospital capacity, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched “unprecedented” steps to provide hospital-level care for patients in their homes. CMS’s “Acute Hospital Care at Home” program, announced in November, gives...
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[Webinar] The Rise of Home-Based Care: How Jefferson is Engaging Patients at Scale
At the start of the pandemic, Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health wanted to move more care to the home to preserve hospital beds for predicted surges and acutely ill Covid patients. Prior to the health crisis, Jefferson had started developing a Hospital-in-Home...
Home Care Services and Technology Set to Explode
The market for services and technologies to help patients remain at home is one of the fastest growing healthcare segments. Even before COVID-19, there was increasing momentum for care outside the walls of healthcare facilities. Now after a year of the pandemic, more...
Engineers Build New Tools To Support Care-at-Home Models
We know from research that most people want to age in place. COVID-19 has shown that most people also want to receive care in their homes and communities. This trend will continue long after the current health crisis has passed. But shifting care to the home doesn’t...
Osage Led Dina’s Investment Round: Here’s Why They Led
Dina recently raised $7 million in financing to expand its digital care-at-home platform and network across the country. Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners led the funding round, with support from existing investors and strategic partners. The venture firm...
Dina Expands Screening Tools to Include Vaccine Tracking
COVID-19 has changed how healthcare providers operate, keep staff and clients healthy, and create safe workplaces. In response, Dina launched new text-based tools to help our customers pre-screen healthcare workers for COVID-19. Now, in preparation to get all medical...
Dina Raises $7 Million for its AI-Powered At-Home Care Platform
Dina, a Chicago-based startup developing an AI-powered at-home care platform, today announced it has raised $7 million. The company says the capital will be used to expand its products and support its mission to help the health care industry transition to in-home...
3 Ways Health Plans Can Open the Door to In-Home Care
Long before COVID-19, most people said they preferred to age in place. Today, many are hoping that more health care shifts into the home. A new report by CareCentrix finds that nearly 75 percent of respondents prefer to recover at home instead of a medical facility...
Dina Raises $7 Million to Expand Digital Care-at-Home Platform and Network
Dina, an AI-powered care-at-home platform and network, announced that it has successfully closed a $7 million Series A funding round led by Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners. Existing investors, strategic partners, and Wheaton, Ill.-based First Trust Capital...
Health at Home: Consumers are Ready; Are You?
The “new normal” of care is happening outside of the hospital. New research from CareCentrix finds a majority of people want to receive care in the comfort of their own homes instead of a medical facility. Most payers, too, see the home as the safest and most...
Dina Introduces New PAC Bed Availability Service
For many hospitals, getting COVID-19 patients to the right post-acute setting can be difficult. Bed space is scarce and it can take hours for case managers to call individual facilities to determine availability. To improve these transitions, Dina launched a new PAC...
Connecting to the Home? Put People Front and Center
One silver lining to the pandemic is that more people are embracing digital health and the technologies needed to bring it to life. To that end, Dina is finding creative ways to remotely engage people in their homes and bring order to a fragmented ecosystem of service...
3 Customers Share Home-Based Remote Engagement Solutions
Hospitals are short-staffed and managing more patients due to the pandemic. In the midst of these challenges, here’s how we’re helping our customers keep their patients and care teams safe.
BrightStar Care Targets Health System, Payer Partnerships with Latest Pilot
BrightStar Care — one of the largest home care franchisers in the nation — is joining Dina’s digital home care coordination network. The home care and senior living franchise organization hopes to enhance its ability to work with hospital and health plan partners.
BrightStar Care Joins Dina’s Home Care Coordination Network
BrightStar Care, a national provider of homecare and medical staffing services, will join Dina’s digital home care coordination network. With 340 locations across the country, BrightStar Care will leverage Dina’s technology to enhance care coordination with its...
Interoperability, Data Transfer Key to Helping People Age at Home
At Dina, we’re working to improve partnerships between hospitals and health plans so they can provide better care for people who want to age in their homes, on their own terms. A key to helping people age in place is the ability to monitor their status and...
Jefferson Health: Remote Patient Monitoring Boosts Outreach, Outcomes
Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital health system with locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, wanted to extend care to its 1,400 Covid-positive patients who were recovering in their homes. Working with Dina, two of its hospitals launched remote patient monitoring...
Care Moves into the Home and Community: 4 Ways to Connect
Now more than ever, the home has emerged as one of the most important settings for care. The current health crisis has accelerated the transition to home-based care and the adoption of telehealth services. But change isn’t always easy. In every industry on the cusp of...