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Chicago Companies Are Stepping Up to Take Down Covid Chaos
As the coronavirus has completely upended “business as usual,” Chicago-based companies are coming up with ways to innovate and offer customer-oriented solutions. After all, this is a time, if any, to bring something new to the table, and we’re seeing it happen in...
Amid Outbreak, Digital Tools Vital to Reaching Patients at Home
As more people are diagnosed with COVID-19, health agencies have urged hospitals and post-acute providers to expand their use of telemedicine and remote monitoring technology to reach patients at home. CMS Expands Telehealth for Medicare Recipients On Monday, the...
6 Ways To Build A Medicare Advantage Partnership
Medicare Advantage (MA) is on track to become a major payer for non-medical home-based benefits. Home care providers need to figure out how to get on board. During the past two years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the types of...
Remote Screening Tools Promote Healthcare Staff Safety Amid Coronavirus
With no clear end in sight for fighting COVID-19, healthcare providers need to protect the health and safety of one of their most valuable resources: their staff. To support quarantine management, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies are...
Hospitals Shift to Digital Engagement in Response to Coronavirus
COVID-19 has created new urgency around the future of healthcare: digital engagement, modern communications tools, and remote patient monitoring. The CDC recommends that hospitals use technology and self-assessment tools with patients who can be cared for at home. In...
Prepared Health Is Now Dina!
We’re excited to announce that today, our company Prepared Health will officially become Dina. Over the past five years, we’ve used the name Dina to refer to our digital assistant that collects and harvests patient assessments from the home and community. This has been an exciting part of our story, and a powerful capability within our product suite.
AI Nursing Assistant Brings Care to the Home
Health systems have been testing out mobile health communications platforms for quite some time to improve care team coordination, but very few have developed such a robust social media platform and this is the first I’ve seen a machine learning enabled digital assistant incorporated into the mix.
How Tech Like Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ Is Benefiting Bayada
Bayada Home Health Care, one of the top 10 largest home health companies in the United States, recently entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Chicago-based health care technology firm PreparedHealth.
Big names sink $4 million into health care software startup
PreparedHealth, a Chicago startup that’s using social media and Big Data to help patients recover more quickly and stay out of the hospital, has attracted $4 million from several well-known investors.
An Aging Population, a Dynamic Partnership and Our Ongoing Quest to Help People Age Safely at Home
Every day, approximately 10,000 people turn 65 years old. By 2050, it’s estimated that people over 65 will represent more than 20 percent of the population, up from 15 percent today.
Scaling community-based care: Ten ways to win in 2019
Healthcare is in the midst of groundbreaking change, moving from a B2B model to a B2C model, and from physicians and administrators as the boss to patients as the boss.
HIStalk Interviews Ashish Shah, CEO, Prepared Health
Prepared Health is a Chicago-based company that is a little over four years old. Our platform connects hospitals and health plans to post-discharge providers such as post-acute care facilities, home care, and social determinants of health partners.
How to Launch a Value-Based Care Model
Home health aides are uniquely positioned to capture rich and timely data while caring for patients in the home. But data alone is not enough to impact outcomes. The real value comes from coupling point-of-care data with actionable insights for care.
Looking to cut hospital readmission rates? Ditch the faxes and Post-it notes.
Centegra Health System found that when case managers, home health aides, physical therapists and other care providers could easily communicate with each other about a shared patient, good things happened.
Jefferson Health Using Tech Tool to Fill Communication Gaps with Home Health Partners
Jefferson Health — a 14-hospital system with more than $5 billion in revenue — is turning to Dina to fill communication gaps with its home health partners.
Prepared Health Will Be at HIMSS 2020! Meet Us At Booth 4126
Hear from Prepared Health CEO Ashish V. Shah and leaders from Jefferson Health, who will talk about building successful innovation partnership. Don't miss "How to Support Emerging Technologies: Create Value for the Buyer and the Innovator," March 13 at HIMSS. Stop by...
Prepared Health CTO Named Female Health IT Leader by Becker’s Hospital Review
For the second year in a row, Erin Karam, Prepared Health’s chief technology officer, has been named one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s top Female Health IT Leaders. Karam heads the strategic and technical direction for the company’s network, leading a product team of nine, including engineering and data science.
Unlocking Data From the Home: Prepared Health Leverages FHIR 4.0 for Advanced Interoperability
Monitoring senior and at-risk patients in their homes can uncover a wealth of valuable data. But a lack of interoperability makes it difficult to share timely insights that would help providers make more informed treatment decisions. Monitoring senior and at-risk...