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Are You Compliant with New CMS Discharge Planning Rule?
CMS guidelines mandate improved patient engagement, choice, and continuity of care across hospital settings. In an effort to improve care transitions, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in September announced a new discharge planning rule that...
How to Build Outcome-Based Partnerships? Start with Communication
From left to right: Dina CEO Ashish V. Shah led a panel at the recent Home Health Care News Summit with David Baiada, CEO, BAYADA Home Health Care; Rajesh Aggarwal, senior vice president, Jefferson Strategic Ventures & Innovation, Thomas Jefferson University and...
Former Advocate Vice President Joins Prepared Health’s Advisory Board
Charlyn Slade Brings Deep Industry Knowledge, Focus on Coordinated Care Charlyn Slade, former vice president of APP Advisors, the consulting arm of Advocate Physician Partners (APP), has joined the Prepared Health advisory board. Located in Rolling Meadows,...
6 Steps to Launch a Value-Based Care Model
Hospitals and health plans are beginning to recognize the value of monitoring patient progress in the home. They want to partner with home health agencies who are investing in patient outcome measures, assessment tools and advanced clinical decision-making support....
Jamison Callins Joins Prepared Health as its New Regional Vice President of Sales, Supporting Company’s National Growth Strategy
Callins will build relationships with hospitals and post-acute providers in the East Coast. Digital healthcare technology company Prepared Health has named Jamison Callins its regional vice president of sales, a new position for the four-year-old company,...
Product Spotlight: Build a Preferred Provider Network
Bundled payment programs and other payment models put a premium on collaboration. The Prepared Health platform provides an efficient way to ensure you’re working with partners who share your approach to patient care. Bundled payment programs and other payment models...
Empower Patients with More Digital Health Information
If you have a chronic condition or care for someone with a chronic condition, you probably have had some difficulty trying to access and aggregate your electronic health information across multiple systems or providers. In order to move to value-based care, we have to...
Silver Tsunami: “Never-Discharge” Mindset Helps People Age Safely at Home
The good news: people are living longer than ever. The bad news: the infrastructure to help seniors age safely in their desired care setting--the home--is severely lacking. The Silver Tsunami is here. Every day, approximately 10,000 people turn 65 years old. By 2050,...
Case Manager Leans on “Patchwork Quilt” of Services to Address Social Determinant Issues
Colleen Morley on backing her team, coaching family caregivers, treating social determinants, and increasing patient education. Case managers are often referred to as patient advocates. Colleen Morley is a self-described “advocate of the advocates.” She is the...
Here’s How Northwestern Medicine Earned $700,000 in Bundled Reimbursements
Three Northwestern Medicine hospitals in suburban Illinois were paying CMS penalties averaging $300,000 a year. One challenge: preventing its bundled payment patients from making a U-turn back into the hospital. To combat this issue, the hospital wanted to help its...
How to Use Data to Become a Preferred Provider
When hospitals select preferred providers, they often rely on skilled nursing facilities or home health agencies that they’ve built relationships with and trust. Providers may be friends or long-time partners. Or, they might bring in lunch or treats for hospital...
5 Ways to Improve Bundled Payment Care Management
If you manage bundled payment programs, there’s a good chance you also manage something else: the financial penalties that come with exceeding parameters set for episodes of care.One way to reduce or avoid penalties is to collaborate with post-acute partners who...
Philadelphia Business Journal: Jefferson, Prepared Health Form Digital Health Partnership to Track Post-Acute Care
Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital system in Philadelphia and New Jersey with $5 billion in revenue, named Prepared Health its digital technology partner. Originally written by John George – Senior Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal, Apr 17, 2019 Jefferson Health...
David Bean Joins Dina as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, a New Position for the Company
Healthcare industry veteran will accelerate national sales, forge new industry partnerships Digital healthcare company Prepared Health has named industry veteran David W. Bean as senior vice president of sales and marketing, a new position for the four-year-old...
Jefferson Health Announces Partnership with Prepared Health to Coordinate Care Transitions from Hospital to Home
Collaboration supports Jefferson Health CEO Stephen K. Klasko’s vision of transforming Philadelphia and New Jersey regions into “model of innovation” for the rest of the country Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital system with more than $5 billion in revenue, named...
Earn Preferred Provider Status: 6 Tips
The U.S. population is aging, an increasing number of patients suffer from more than one chronic condition, and Medicare spending on post-acute care is up. Depending on your market, it can be a competitive time to be in the post-acute care business. As part of the...
How to Manage Bundled Payments? Build a Better Network
Hospitals historically have had little responsibility for the post-acute care that follows a patient's hospital stay. In fact, 93 percent of healthcare organizations don’t have a fully coordinated care plan as patients move between inpatient, post-acute and home...
Interoperability in Healthcare Must Include Patient Data From Home
Recent advances in healthcare interoperability, the process of freely exchanging information among electronic systems, are important but still incomplete. When you look at all of the coordination required in a patient’s journey from the hospital to home, there is a...