With more SNFs being penalized and an increasing number of patients being referred to home health care, participating in an ACO may be a strategic solution to improving care coordination, organizational goals, and patient outcomes overall.
A multifaceted solution that involves three complementary and overarching strategies
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
CPSI sold American HealthTech — its subsidiary that provides an EHR platform for the post-acute care market — to post-acute health IT vendor PointClickCare. American HealthTech's customers have already begun transitioning to PointClickCare's platform.
A new study found that between 16.2% and 17.7% of Medicare Advantage enrollees reported using post-acute care services, compared to 22.4% to 24.1% of traditional Medicare enrollees.
The pandemic has slowed referrals to skilled nursing facilities as Covid-19 concerns result in longer transfers. An analysis by CarePort Health found that referrals to skilled nursing facilities were down by more than 17% in the fall.
PointClickCare Technologies, a provider of cloud-based technology for long-term and post-acute care facilities, will spend between $500 million and $1 billion to purchase care coordination platform Collective Medical.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued fines to more than 3,400 nursing homes either for infection control noncompliance or for failing to report Covid-19 data.
OptumHealth acquired naviHealth, a startup developing a software platform to help manage post-acute care. Cardinal Health sold a majority stake in the company two years ago.
IntelyCare, a healthcare staffing solution for post-acute care, raised $45 million in equity and debt financing. The startup uses its software to match nurses with open shifts, adjusting pricing accordingly.
Tech firms are jostling to help hospitals and health systems comply with federal rules covering patient transitions to nursing homes, rehab centers and other forms of post-acute care.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Using the company's nH Predict tool, clinicians are better able to predict a patient's outcomes and generate a personalized post-acute care plan.
If the the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) EHR Adoption Model recalls the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scale, it's not a coincidence.
Last fall, a study by Healthcentric Advisors found that monitoring hospital staff adherence to standardized communications with a patient’s primary care provider and providing feedback to staff had a positive impact on care transitions and readmissions. Although the study focused on the care transition process with primary care providers, the findings also hold true for […]
Caremerge serves more than a hundred senior living facilities with mobile and web tools to help them communicate and coordinate care. Lively is a startup that uses sensors and algorithms to detect changes in seniors’ daily behaviors that could indicate that something’s wrong. Together, they’re hoping to give senior care providers a better way to […]
It’s not just hospitals that are buying each other up these days. The post-acute care sector has seen steady M&A activity over recent years, too, as integrated-care models become more prevalent. In a new research note on TripleTree’s blog, analyst Justin Fengler noted four major themes that are driving deals in the sector: Mitigate risk […]