Scaling Community-Based Care: 10 Ways to Win
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.
Thought Leadership
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Improving care for chronically ill, older patients
Nurse-led approach helps cut costs, spur recovery Caring for older patients living with complex health and social needs is one […]
It’s time to ditch the fax machine
From an evolution standpoint, the methods for information transfer and communication have come a long way from the days of […]
Challenges in the Skilled Nursing Space
It isn’t a secret that the post-acute care industry is changing. Over the last decade, there have been two significant […]
Redesigning skilled nursing facilities for today’s needs
With the burgeoning aging population in America, the number of people living with chronic and complex medical conditions continues to […]
What the Change in Medicare Advantage Benefits Means for Home Care
Private-duty home care providers across the country are celebrating the recent announcement that Medicare Advantage plans will cover non-skilled home […]
What is driving Central Intake adoption?
As rehabilitation, home health, and private care organizations expand their footprints and focus on service delivery, enterprise level visibility, control, […]
Home Care May Soon Be Covered By Medicare
Home care – unskilled personal care or private duty – is fast becoming one of the most needed long-term healthcare […]
Care upon discharge: Helping hospitals make informed decisions – via Becker’s
The care a patient receives after leaving the four walls of a hospital can be just as crucial to the […]
Bundled Payments Driving The Need For Better Data in the Post-Acute Space
As the shift from traditional fee for service models to value-based care progresses, it is important to understand what’s on […]
Success Stories: Safely transitioning patients from Hospital-to-Home
We sat down with one of our hospital case managers to better understand how the Prepared Health network helps […]