News and insights to help health plans and providers stay connected to one of the most important destinations of care: the home.
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 the horizon for organizations looking to leverage their downstream partners in a more effective, outcome-driven manner. Holistically engaging...
Value-based Evolution of Skilled Nursing Facilities
The use of skilled nursing facilities as short and long term post-acute care settings has become very prevalent. At the moment, there are nearly 16,000 certified skilled nursing facilities in the U.S and the number keeps rising. Why is this happening? The number of...
The Underutilization of Hospice Care
Every year in the U.S, hundreds of thousands of people die from terminal illnesses like cancer and advanced heart disease. Unfortunately, the vast majority of this demographic doesn’t enter hospice care until their final days, if they ever do at all. In order to...
Success Stories: Safely transitioning patients from Hospital-to-Home
We sat down with one of our hospital case managers to better understand how the Dina network helps him on a day-to-day basis. What was the biggest thing he said? Communication...it’s a hot topic in healthcare and, in an industry that relies heavily on fax machines,...
Social Workers: Vital Role to Achieve Better Patient Care
Over 5 million patients transition from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities each year. Millions of others transition from hospitals to their homes, rehabilitation centers and other care settings. Social workers are central to these transitions. They are tasked...
Understanding the differences between Home Care and Home Health
It’s not news that an increasing portion of Americans are seniors, but to provide some perspective, since 2012, nearly 10,000 Americans turn 65 daily and by 2030, 20% of the population will be over 65 years old. In response to this trend, the healthcare...
3 Steps to Marketing Your Home Health Agency
As the number of seniors continues to rise in the United States, so does the need for home health agencies that are instrumental in providing lower cost, long-term care in the home. Among the 67,000 long-term care providers who took care of over 9,000,000...
Dina expands leadership team and home health network
Healthcare engagement company, PreparedHealth, reports accelerated growth along with key new hires. Dina has expanded its leadership team by naming Iqbal Brainch as Chief Marketing Officer. The announcement comes in the midst of significant growth. The firm has more...
Dina Announces Partnership with Encompass
Encompass enters agreement to join the Dina™ network, focusing on ACO partnerships and home health value based purchasing models. Healthcare engagement company, PreparedHealth, announced today a multi-year agreement with Encompass, a nationally recognized...
Post Acute Link Conference: BAYADA Improves Early Intervention through Artificial Intelligence
Join us in Chicago at the Post Acute Link Continuum Care Conference! Our CEO, Ashish V. Shah, will be on stage with Eric Thul, Division Director at BAYADA Home Health Care talking about BAYADA's success with early interventions using DINA™ and the Prepared...
The Dina Story: A letter from Our Founders
The Dina Story: A Letter from our Founders. It was June 2011, shortly after Medicity was acquired by Aetna for $500MM, when my father suddenly passed away. I experienced a wide range of emotions at the time, but the lingering feeling of being incredibly ‘unprepared’...
Primary Care Physician’s Guide: Extending Patient Centered Care Beyond the Practice
With the transition to value-based payment models in healthcare, Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) are seeing a greater need for more efficient care management for high-risk patients and an urgency to manage smarter transitions quickly. According to study performed by...
Centegra Health System Unlocks the Key for Bundled Payment Programs
Centegra Health System leverages innovative technology to maximize bundles as many hospitals and health systems struggle to manage the losses. Hospitals and health systems across the country are continuing to assess Bundled Payment programs, trying to determine how to...
National think-tank adds power to evidence-based care transitions
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with The Bridge Model National Office. The expansion of our advisory board brings tremendous care transitions thought leadership to our growing ecosystem of home and community-based healthcare providers on the platform. See...
Alan Weinstein joins Dina as Strategic Advisor to the Board
Appointment of Alan Weinstein, Founder of Premier, Inc, as Strategic Advisor to the Board sets the stage for accelerated growth of PreparedHealth’s social network for healthcare ---- Innovative healthcare engagement company, Dina, announced today that Alan...
50 Chicago startups to watch in 2017
Built In Chicago announced the top startups that everyone should keep an eye on in 2017. We're proud to be included in such an impressive list. Chicago’s tech star is burning bright. The industry is churning out plenty of new launches, attracting talent from across...
How tech like Amazon’s Alexa can benefit home health
Home Health Care News sees the value in DINA and how AI has the potential to change patient care. This goal is shared by home health providers of all shapes, sizes and geographies. But PreparedHealth’s partnership with Moorestown, New Jersey-based Bayada actually...
Dina leverages partnership for national presence
Home Health Technology News spotlights our BAYADA partnership and how we are creating a more holistic approach to healthcare. “We are joining with BAYADA to create data-driven engagement and bring those experiences into health care,” said Shah. “We want to create a...