Take Six with Aaron Huffer, Enterprise Sales Executive
How did you first learn about CarePort, and what made you want to join the company? I was actively looking for a new opportunity at the time, and CarePort checked all of the boxes. It’s a company with a worthwhile mission and great products that are actually helping achieve improved outcomes. The executive team was clearly […]
Patient event notification CoP and the role of HIEs
As part of CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, a newly-created Condition of Participation (CoP) requires hospitals with an EHR to send electronic patient notifications for patient admissions, discharges and transfers to primary care providers (PCPs), physicians and post-acute providers and suppliers. The requirement goes into effect May 1, 2021. Since most hospitals contribute their […]
Patient event notification CoPs: understanding the regulatory landscape
As hospitals work to comply with CMS’s patient event notification requirements as part of the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) within the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, the team at CarePort is receiving several questions regarding the broader regulatory framework, and how the new patient event notification CoPs fit within this existing framework. In […]
Mount Sinai Health System: transitions of care from SNF to home
CarePort recently hosted a webinar, “Transitions of Care from SNF to Home,” with its client partners at New York’s Mount Sinai Health System. The health system is comprised of eight acute hospitals, 7,000 primary and specialty physicians, more than 3,000 skilled nursing facility admissions per year within its ACO population, and a SNF collaborative with […]
The impact of COVID-19 on hospital readmissions
Recent CarePort webinars led by Tom Martin, Director of Post-Acute Analytics focused on the “new normal” for acute and post-acute care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Below, we discuss the impact of COVID-19 on hospital readmissions following care at both the acute and post-acute levels, and how CarePort can help your organization reduce hospital readmissions by […]
Take Six with Abhirup Dash, Principal Data Analyst
You began working at Allscripts nearly 9 years ago, and have been with CarePort for 2 years. Can you describe what your position at CarePort entails? I work at CarePort’s Pune, India office as a Principal Data Analyst where I am mainly responsible for three different areas: data reporting, analytics and analysis. With access to all data, my primary job is to […]
Chronic illness patient surges: how can payers prepare?
According to the CDC, six in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease such as heart disease, diabetes or a chronic lung disease – and four in 10 adults have two chronic conditions or more. Even further, approximately 80% of adults aged 65 or older have at least one chronic condition, and 77% […]
COVID-19: the new normal for acute and post-acute care
CarePort has been closely examining its data across an extensive network of over 1,000 hospitals and more than 110,000 post-acute providers over the past several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, searching for insights that are most helpful to customers. On two recent webinars, we discussed the impact of COVID-19 on hospital readmissions, and its effect […]
Interoperability e-notification CoPs: why a national network is critical
Within CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, a newly-created Condition of Participation (CoP) requires hospitals with an EHR to send electronic patient notifications for patient admissions, discharges and transfers to primary care providers (PCPs), physicians and post-acute providers and suppliers. To reduce the burden of fulfilling these CoPs, with which they must comply by […]
The PAC perspective: Advantage Living Centers on Detroit’s COVID-19 surge
In our first-ever virtual care coordination summit, “COVID-19 in Detroit,” we learned how Henry Ford Health System, Advantage Living Centers and Health Alliance Plan (HAP) worked together to successfully coordinate cross-continuum patient care during Detroit’s COVID-19 surge. In recent blog posts, we’ve shared the experiences of Henry Ford Health System and Health Alliance Plan (HAP), […]
HAP’s experience managing members during the COVID-19 surge
In our first virtual care coordination summit, “COVID-19 in Detroit,” we learned how Henry Ford Health System, Advantage Living Centers and Health Alliance Plan (HAP) worked together to successfully coordinate cross-continuum patient care during Detroit’s COVID-19 surge. We explored the key themes contributing to the three stakeholders’ success – pivoting quickly, increasing communication, and collaborating […]
Henry Ford Health System’s experience during Detroit’s COVID-19 surge
In our recent blog post, we summarized the first virtual installment of our Care Coordination Summit series, “COVID-19 in Detroit,” sharing how a health system, post-acute provider and payer – Henry Ford Health System, Advantage Living Centers and Health Alliance Plan – pivoted quickly, increased communication, and collaborated across the continuum and community to successfully […]
