News and insights to help health plans streamline the delivery of in-home care, long-term services and supports, and supplemental benefits.
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...
Connecting to the Home? Put People Front and Center
One silver lining to the pandemic is that more people are embracing digital health and the technologies needed to bring it to life. To that end, Dina is finding creative ways to remotely engage people in their homes and bring order to a fragmented ecosystem of service...
3 Customers Share Home-Based Remote Engagement Solutions
Hospitals are short-staffed and managing more patients due to the pandemic. In the midst of these challenges, here’s how we’re helping our customers keep their patients and care teams safe.
BrightStar Care Targets Health System, Payer Partnerships with Latest Pilot
BrightStar Care — one of the largest home care franchisers in the nation — is joining Dina’s digital home care coordination network. The home care and senior living franchise organization hopes to enhance its ability to work with hospital and health plan partners.
BrightStar Care Joins Dina’s Home Care Coordination Network
BrightStar Care, a national provider of homecare and medical staffing services, will join Dina’s digital home care coordination network. With 340 locations across the country, BrightStar Care will leverage Dina’s technology to enhance care coordination with its...
Interoperability, Data Transfer Key to Helping People Age at Home
At Dina, we’re working to improve partnerships between hospitals and health plans so they can provide better care for people who want to age in their homes, on their own terms. A key to helping people age in place is the ability to monitor their status and...
Jefferson Health: Remote Patient Monitoring Boosts Outreach, Outcomes
Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital health system with locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, wanted to extend care to its 1,400 Covid-positive patients who were recovering in their homes. Working with Dina, two of its hospitals launched remote patient monitoring...
4 Home Care Connection Strategies for Providers
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition to home-based care and the adoption of connected telehealth services. But change isn’t always easy. In every industry on the cusp of transformation, there are organizations that adapt and those who, despite demand, do...
CMS: Home Care-Related MA Benefits are Booming
Home care-related Medicare Advantage (MA) benefits, including support for caregivers, transportation and meal assistance, are on the rise, according to new data from CMS. More than 900 plans — reaching 4.3 million beneficiaries — will be offering the “Special...
As Care Moves Home, Are Your Teams Connected?
Hospital care coordination units and health plan care management teams are responsible for monitoring patients who are receiving care in the home. This means reviewing data from EMRs or looking at claims-based data. Dina CEO Ashish V. Shah says there’s a better way to...
Holy Redeemer, Dina Partner to Connect Health System, Align Post-Acute Network
Holy Redeemer Health System, a fully integrated health system serving patients across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has expanded its partnership with Dina, an AI-powered care coordination platform to help hospitals build, digitize and manage post-acute partners. Holy...
Care Traffic Control: Monitoring Patient Progress at Home
Hospitals, health systems and health plans are beginning to recognize the value of monitoring patient progress in the home. They want to partner with home health agencies who are investing in patient outcome measures, assessment tools and advanced clinical...
Using SDOH Data to Create More Healthy Days at Home
As the cost of healthcare continues to skyrocket, providers are looking for ways to achieve better outcomes and drive down costs. As we work toward a more coordinated approach to care, one question is often missed: How do we create more healthy days at home?...
Home Care Companies Create New Revenue Streams By Helping Businesses Safely Reopen
After weeks — in some cases, months — of closures due to the coronavirus, businesses across the U.S. began reopening in early June. But by July, many of those same businesses were forced to go in the opposite direction, thanks to a national resurgence of COVID-19...
3 Steps to Protect Home Care Workers in a COVID-19 Era
One of the lessons we’ve learned during the current health crisis is how important it is to move care into the home and community, and away from places like hospitals. This is especially true as we’re experiencing a second surge in some parts of the country and many...
Dina Named “Transition of Care” Challenge Winner
The New Orleans Business Alliance and the Tulane Health System have named Dina the winner of its 2020 Transition of Care Challenge. Dina's COO Tim Coulter and Robby Coury, Dina's sales operations manager, presented the company's AI-powered care coordination platform...
Evolution Health Partners with Dina to Automate Employee Wellness Checks Amid Coronavirus
Evolution Health, a leading home health, hospice and infusion therapy provider, has selected Dina’s Staff Screening and Check-In solution to automate its employee wellness and health screening process. Evolution Health’s family of companies has implemented Dina’s...