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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...
Philadelphia Business Journal: Holy Redeemer delves deeper into digital health
Holy Redeemer Health System is taking a deeper dive into digital health technology. The Montgomery County provider is expanding its relationship with Chicago-based Prepared Health and the company’s care coordination network. For the past year Holy Redeemer has used...
Electronic Health Reporter: Managing Care As it Moves Out of Hospital, into Home
What's one of the biggest health trends for 2019? Recognizing the home as the new care setting, says Prepared Health CEO Ashish Shah. Shah was part of a group of technology leaders included in Electronic Health Reporter’s Health IT Trends for 2019. Here’s what else he...
Holy Redeemer and Dina Partner to Connect Health System, Align Post-Acute Network
After successful partnership with its Home Care unit, the Pennsylvania-based health system adds Hospital and Life Care Centers to Prepared Health’s digital network. Holy Redeemer Health System, a fully integrated health system serving patients across...
Caregiving Is Hard: 5 Tips to Ease the Load
Caring for an elder family member can be stressful. According to a recent study, there are nearly 15 million unpaid and untrained family caregivers for older adults in the U.S. Half spend nearly 30 hours a week providing care to relatives, many of whom have dementia....
Flagship Medical Expands Referral Sources with Prepared Health
Flagship Medical is the first durable medical equipment provider to join Prepared Health's network. The Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania-based company hopes referrals from hospitals and skilled nursing facilities will follow. Flagship Medical, a full-service durable...
Clare Medical: Making House Calls Even More Effective with Prepared Health
When Clare Medical dispatches their clinicians and other healthcare professionals to house-bound seniors across New Jersey, it relies on technology to connect its mobile team and track patient progress. Chief Operating Officer Deborah Scott says its high-touch...
Home Health Agency Thinks Like a Hospital
Gloria Shields knows that some hospital networks have hundreds of providers to choose from when they discharge patients who need at-home care. As director of transitional care at Bowes In Home Care, she wants the Crystal Lake, Illinois home health agency to stand out...
Families Stay Connected with Parents’ Care
Lillian Funk, co-owner of Assisting Hands, an in-home care provider in Ashburn, Virginia, believes in the power of family connections. “When the family is engaged, we can deliver better care and provide a better patient experience,” she says. There are more than 43...
“Advocate First” Case Manager Expands Services at Home Health Agency
Geriatric case manager Nancy Downey has been a nurse for 46 years and has worked with the elderly for most of her career. At Generation Solutions, a home health agency in Lynchburg, Virginia, she started a care management program to help seniors with everything from...
Case Manager Delivers Care Despite Limited Resources
A case manager’s job is difficult. But working in a rural community with limited resources brings a new set of challenges. “We’re an hour away from an ICU, there’s not a lot of rehab facilities and we don’t have a transportation system,” says Brannon Evans, case...
VNAHG + PreparedHealth: Boost Referrals, Improve Responsiveness
Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG) logs 60 to 100 patient referrals a day, mostly from well-established hospital partners who want to pair newly discharged patients with home-based health services. With a network of 1,500 clinicians in New Jersey and...
New Jersey Case Manager Fights “Tooth and Nail” for Patients
Marie Ruiz, case manager and lead assessment coordinator at Jefferson Health Care Center, is a fierce advocate for her patients. But she doesn’t always win. In June, an elderly patient spent approximately two weeks at the Sewell, New Jersey skilled nursing facility...
PreparedHealth wins inaugural MATTER | Accenture innovation pitch competition
This month, PreparedHealth won both the Judges' and Peoples' Choice awards at the inaugural MATTER Accenture Digital Health & Life Sciences Pitch Competition. PreparedHealth was among one of 5 finalists selected to present at the competition showcasing innovative...
Dina Announces Integration with PointClickCare
Technology partnership to streamline communication from hospital to home Dina, a healthcare technology firm empowering simplified communication from hospital to home, announced today a strategic partnership with PointClickCare, the leading cloud-based software vendor...