News and insights to help health plans and providers stay connected to one of the most important destinations of care: the home.
Dina Appoints New Chief Medical Officer
Maryann Lauletta, MD, FACHE has joined Dina as Chief Medical Officer to further advance the company's mission of delivering more care in the home and community. This is a new role for Dina, a care-at-home platform and network that supports the healthcare industry’s...
Dina CEO To Present at Home Care 100 Conference
Dina CEO Ashish V. Shah will be speaking at the Home Care 100 Leadership Conference, talking about the company's digital technology and how it supports the healthcare industry’s transition to in-home and virtual care. Shah will be presenting in the conference session,...
FirstLight Joins Dina’s Home Care Coordination Network
FirstLight Home Care, a leading national provider of non-medical home care services, announced it will join Dina’s digital home care coordination network. With more than 200 locations across the country, FirstLight Home Care will leverage Dina’s technology to enhance...
Hospital-at-Home Requires New Post-Acute Strategy
Since the ACA was implemented in 2009, many healthcare systems have been driving towards lowering costs and improving quality of care. “CMS has committed to moving a certain percentage of our care to value-based care,” said Dr. Kate Behan, Senior Vice President and...
The “Power and Opportunity” of Home-Based Care
David Baiada, CEO of Bayada Home Health Care, a top national provider of home-based healthcare services, spoke to HIStalk about the "power and opportunity" of care at home, activating digital technology during the pandemic, and why its new joint ventures with health...
Dina Names Bob Maluso As Chief Growth Officer
Dina has named Robert “Bob” Maluso the company’s Chief Growth Officer, overseeing national sales and marketing. He will work out of the company's Atlanta hub. Maluso most recently served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at WoundTech, the...
How Home-Based Care is Helping Health Systems Engage More Patients at Scale
Many hospitals and health systems are trying to determine how to implement successful care-at-home initiatives. While these at-home care models aren’t new, interest has skyrocketed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. And though it’s not for every patient or...
100+ Hospitals Approved for Hospital at Home Waiver
In an effort to increase hospital capacity, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched “unprecedented” steps to provide hospital-level care for patients in their homes. CMS’s “Acute Hospital Care at Home” program, announced in November, gives...
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[Webinar] The Rise of Home-Based Care: How Jefferson is Engaging Patients at Scale
At the start of the pandemic, Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health wanted to move more care to the home to preserve hospital beds for predicted surges and acutely ill Covid patients. Prior to the health crisis, Jefferson had started developing a Hospital-in-Home...
Home Healthcare Services and Technology Projected to Double in Growth
The market for home healthcare services and technologies is one of the fastest growing segments in healthcare. Even before COVID-19, there was increasing momentum for care outside the walls of healthcare facilities. Now after a year of the pandemic, more money and...
Engineers Build New Tools To Support Care-at-Home Models
We know from research that most people want to age in place. COVID-19 has shown that most people also want to receive care in their homes and communities. This trend will continue long after the current health crisis has passed. But shifting care to the home...
Osage Led Dina’s Investment Round: Here’s Why They Led
Dina recently raised $7 million in financing to expand its digital care-at-home platform and network across the country. Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners led the funding round, with support from existing investors and strategic partners. The venture firm...
Dina Expands Screening Tools to Include Vaccine Tracking
COVID-19 has changed how healthcare providers operate, keep staff and clients healthy, and create safe workplaces. In response, Dina launched new text-based tools to help our customers pre-screen healthcare workers for COVID-19. Now, in preparation to get all medical...
Dina Raises $7 Million for its AI-Powered At-Home Care Platform
Dina, a Chicago-based startup developing an AI-powered at-home care platform, today announced it has raised $7 million. The company says the capital will be used to expand its products and support its mission to help the health care industry transition to in-home...
3 Ways Health Plans Can Open the Door to In-Home Care
Long before COVID-19, most people said they preferred to age in place. Today, many are hoping that more health care shifts into the home. A new report by CareCentrix finds that nearly 75 percent of respondents prefer to recover at home instead of a medical facility...
Dina Raises $7 Million to Expand Digital Care-at-Home Platform and Network
Dina, an AI-powered care-at-home platform and network, announced that it has successfully closed a $7 million Series A funding round led by Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners. Existing investors, strategic partners, and Wheaton, Ill.-based First Trust Capital...
Health at Home: Consumers are Ready; Are You?
The “new normal” of care is happening outside of the hospital. New research from CareCentrix finds a majority of people want to receive care in the comfort of their own homes instead of a medical facility. Most payers, too, see the home as the safest and most...
Dina Introduces New PAC Bed Availability Service
For many hospitals, getting COVID-19 patients to the right post-acute setting can be difficult. Bed space is scarce and it can take hours for case managers to call individual facilities to determine availability. To improve these transitions, Dina launched a new PAC...