Healthcare technology news to help reduce cost of care and increase patients’ days at home.
How to Bring Patients Back to the Hospital Safely
How do you re-engage patients and establish hospitals as safe places that limit COVID-19 risk? Dina CEO Ashish V. Shah will join a panel sponsored by MATTER to address the COVID-19 recovery process for health systems. Register today for this informative discussion,...
8 Most-Asked Questions About Employee Health Screening Tools
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. We’re also helping partners screen...
Home-Based Care Operators Expect to Use Screening Tools ‘Far into the Future’
For Bayada Home Health Care, the idea of implementing a sensible COVID-19 screening process began with pieces of paper. After some brainstorming, the company began exploring more technology-savvy processes and, ultimately, landed on text messages. Originally thought...
Take a Demo Today! Check Out Dina’s Staff Screening Tools
Missed Home Health Care News Demo Day? No problem. You can still register for a free, on-demand demo of Dina's new COVID-19 Employee Health and Wellness Screening Tools. Use this link to access the demo: https://demoday.homehealthcarenews.com/ What: 15-minute...
BAYADA: Proactive COVID Safety Plan Helps Client Acquisition, Staff Retention
In early March, Matt Kroll, BAYADA Home Health Care’s Assistive Care Services Practice president, was in a planning meeting when his phone began ringing nonstop: clients and employees were showing symptoms of COVID-19, and clients were declining services because they...
Join Us At Home Health Care News “Demo Day” on June 18
We’re excited to showcase our new Employee Health and Wellness Screening solution during Home Health Care News first-ever virtual "Demo Day." Please join us for a free product demonstration on June 18 at 3:00 pm CST. Use this link to register:...
10,000 Daily Pre-Shift Health Checks with Dina’s COVID-19 Screening Tools
COVID-19 has changed how health care providers operate, keep staff and clients healthy, and create safe workplaces. Nine weeks ago, Dina launched new Employee Health and Wellness Screening tools to help our customers pre-screen home care workers for COVID-19. This...
How Healthy Are Your Employees? What You Can–And Can’t–Ask During the Pandemic
Many business owners and managers are thinking about what a return to work will look like during COVID-19. Key concerns, of course, are safeguarding the workplace and protecting employees from infection. In the past, employers could not conduct medical tests or even...
Planning to Reopen Amid COVID-19? 5 Steps For Success
Across the country and across industries, companies have closed their workplaces or operated at a reduced capacity to help manage the spread of COVID-19. Now, as more than half of the states begin to lift stay-at-home orders and allow businesses to reopen, the process...
3 Changes That Will Impact the Post-Covid Patient Journey
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major changes in how healthcare, and many other industries, function. While the focus is on getting through the pandemic, home and community care has emerged as an invaluable method to safely deliver services to those who need them. ...
Combatting COVID: 5 Benefits For Text-Based Screening Tools
The coronavirus outbreak has increased the need for easy-to-use screening tools to ensure that employees are healthy and available to care for patients. To meet the needs of hospitals and post-acute providers, we've added a Staff Screening and Check-In tool to our...
Chicago Digital Health Company is Expanding its Philadelphia Footprint
Dina, a Chicago digital health technology company, is planning a bigger push into the Philadelphia market as it embarks on plans for a national expansion. The five-year-old company, previously known as Prepared Health, has developed a care coordination platform that...
Webinar: Intelligently and Virtually Managing Social Determinants of Health
Dina CEO Ashish V. Shah will join leaders from CareCentrix, the leader in home-based and post-acute care (PAC) solutions, in the webinar, "Intelligently and Virtually Managing Social Determinants of Health," April 21 from 12:30-1:30 CST. Register here to attend the...
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...