Care Coordination – CareThreads

Going Digital to Enhance Care Coordination and Outcomes in Senior Living

June 7, 2018

Care Coordination, EHR Solutions and Operations, Interoperability, Post-acute Care

If you were a senior living care provider looking to drive up quality of care and improve clinical and financial outcomes while balancing your status as a preferred referral partner, what would you do? Invest in technology? That’s what Landis Communities did to achieve success. The five-star, full-service, live-at-home facility in Pennsylvania took steps to adopt health IT solutions that helped not only achieve positive results for their residents but also solidified their position as a vital player within their local…

Managing Care for Co-Occurring Conditions

May 30, 2018

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Care Coordination, EHR Solutions and Operations, Human Services, Interoperability, Post-acute Care, Videos

When it comes to being able to provide the best care possible, it’s important for providers to be able to exchange and receive vital patient data – spanning both behavioral and physical healthcare – so they can have all of the relevant information at hand to make the best care decisions and achieve the best possible outcomes for their patient. Watch the video below to follow Maria through her journey as she works with her providers to successfully manage the…

Enhancing Autism Services Through Technology

May 25, 2018

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Care Coordination, EHR Solutions and Operations, Human Services, Thought Leadership

Healthcare is constantly moving at a high rate of speed. In order to keep up, providers and clinicians need to consider and adopt the best processes and workflows to provide top-notch services. When providers are spending more time on recordkeeping and analysis, it doesn’t leave them with as much time to do what they do best – provide care. Enter technology and its ability to streamline operations and enrich services. Read on as Netsmart Senior Director Andrew Mersman gives us…

Texas 1115 Waiver: Using Technology to Prove Outcomes

May 24, 2018

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Care Coordination, Human Services

As payment models in healthcare continue to innovate and test new ways to lower costs and deliver quality outcomes, initiatives like the Texas Medicaid 1115 Waiver program become a vital route for organizations to maximize their Medicaid payments. The goal of the 1115 Waiver program is to allow Texas the ability to “expand Medicaid managed care, while preserving hospital funding. It also provides incentive payments for healthcare improvements and directs more funding to hospitals that serve a large number of…

Reduce Recidivism and Save Money by Coordinating Justice and Behavioral Health Services

May 17, 2018

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Care Coordination, Human Services, Interoperability, Partnerships and Collaboration

Many county and local justice systems receive large numbers of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders revolving through their doors. Not only do these repeat visits lead to increased populations and costs for already cash-strapped systems, individuals pay a price, missing opportunities to receive treatment. Let’s take a look at the facts: Twelve million people cycle through local jails every year. Out of this group, 64 percent of jail inmates suffer from a mental illness. 63 percent of…

Experts in Home Health Give Thoughts and Advice for 2018 – Part VII

April 19, 2018

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Care Coordination, Post-acute Care

In our previous edition, Home Care Sales’ Melanie Stover contributed her thoughts about the value of referral relationships for home health agencies. In today’s post, our very own Teresa Craig reflects on why home health agencies should focus being able to show their value to partner providers in order to be considered to provide home care to individuals who would benefit most. Understand the Needs of All Stakeholders Home care agencies need to become more a part of the communities…

Experts in Home Health Give Thoughts and Advice for 2018 – Part IV

March 20, 2018

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Care Coordination, Post-acute Care, Value-based Care

Last time in our home health experts series, National Association for Home Care and Hospice President Bill Dombi took a high-level approach toward home health’s impact on healthcare as a whole. Today, Arnie Cisneros and Kimberly McCormick from Home Health Strategic Management talk about making the shift from a high amount to a high quality of care. Embrace the “Volume to Value” Transition Healthcare reforms have been slated towards improving the value of care costs for a number of years, and…

Back from #HIMSS18 – A Recap

March 15, 2018

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Care Coordination, EHR Solutions and Operations

Last week, thousands of healthcare and IT professionals from across the globe convened in Las Vegas for the annual #HIMSS18 conference. Today on CareThreads, we feature some of our favorite highlights from the leading health information and technology conference. Visitors to our Netsmart booth took advantage of meetings, demonstrations and learned more about how we are working to achieve whole-person care by connecting addiction treatment, behavioral health, care at home and senior living to the rest of healthcare. Counting down…

What Does Behavioral Health Have to Do With Home Health?

March 14, 2018

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Care Coordination, Post-acute Care

As healthcare continues to evolve, so does the overlapping of care specialties. There’s continuing examination that suggests certain health conditions may affect an individual in other areas of health – one condition may cause or further aggravate another. This is why it’s important to provide holistic, whole-person care with a comprehensive approach that addresses the full spectrum of health, including all that relates to physical and behavioral health. Although any individual may require some type of care at home, seniors…

Carequality by the Numbers

March 5, 2018

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Care Coordination, Interoperability

As healthcare continues to integrate, the need for information grows. Providers are relying more on a patient’s health history across care communities to make better care decisions. It’s like putting together a puzzle. Without a vital piece to complete the full-picture, a clinician wouldn’t be able to completely assess an episode if they didn’t have what they needed to fill in the gaps. That’s where the Sequoia Project’s Carequality interoperability framework comes in. Carequality is a collaboration between private and…