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 […]
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Care Traffic Control: Monitoring Patient Progress at Home
Home health aides are uniquely positioned to capture rich and timely data while caring for patients in the home. But […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Social Workers: A vital role to achieving better patient care
Over 5 million patients transition from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities each year. Millions of others transition from hospitals to […]
5 Trends Reinventing Healthcare
Entrepreneur.com contributor John Boitnott outlines 5 key innovations reinventing healthcare, one of which is the use of social networking models to accelerate […]