News and insights to help health plans and providers stay connected to one of the most important destinations of care: the home.
BAYADA Home Health Care and Dina Announce Strategic Partnership
BAYADA Home Health Care, the nation’s largest private provider of home-based services, and Dina, a growing healthcare engagement company, announced today a multi-year strategic partnership. The alliance comes on the heels of several successful projects in...
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 information sharing between providers, patients and caregivers. "As many industries have done, healthcare is...
CTOs to Know: Erin Karam
Our very own Erin Karam was featured by Built In Chicago's Andreas Rekdal as a CTO to Know! Learn more about the technologies that power our social network for healthcare. As social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter show, information sharing can be easy and...
Why this Chicago startup wants to bring Facebook-style social networks to healthcare providers
The following appeared in Built In Chicago on April 18, 2016 by Sam Dewey. A couple of days ago, the New York Times’ Katie Rogers wrote a piece called “Why Do Older People Love Facebook?” in which she essayed the exact question her title posed. It’s a curious...
Home Health Apps Take Cues from Facebook to Cut Readmissions
The following was written by Mary Kate Nelson in Home Health Care News on March 29, 2016. When it comes to engaging caregivers and family members in a patient’s home health care, emulating popular social media platforms may be the way to go. Two innovative...
mHealth Intelligence: Social Media for Care Team Coordination
Eric Wiklund from mHealth Intelligence writes how Health Systems have been experimenting with mobile communication tools for years, but few had ventured into the social media landscape as a model for care communications. A home healthcare provider sees a sharp drop in...
Provider social networking app may help improve patient outcomes
The following appeared in Becker's Hospital Review on December 30, 2015 by Brooke Murphy. A cloud-based social networking app for healthcare providers reduced readmission rates at a home care facility from 40 percent to 11 percent, according to Crain's Chicago...
Morning Read: An app uses lessons from social media to reduce readmission rates
The following appeared in MedCity News on January 1, 2016 by Stephanie Baum. A three month pilot of an app from health IT startup Prepared Health at Bayada Home Health Care reduced readmissions for heart surgery patients from 40 percent to under 11 percent. The...
A new social network for health care providers
The following appeared in Crain's Chicago Business on December 30, 2015 by John Pletz. Ashish Shah had a hunch that social media—a tool used every day by health care providers outside work—could be the key to improving results on the job, too. It looks like he was...