As home care providers increasingly embrace creative solutions to long-standing industry challenges, the use of engagement platforms, or “gamification,” has become more common. This means that more companies that can aid providers with this process are emerging on the scene. One of the newest is New York-based Ava — an AI rewards platform that serves […]
Category: Innovation
Spiras Health – an emerging home-based care startup – has recently hired two former UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) executives to join its C-suite team. The hires coincide with a pivotal time in the company’s journey. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Spiras Health provides nurse practitioner-led, at-home clinical care to patients with complex and chronic needs. Not […]
In modern history, the hospital has been the center of the health care universe. Other care delivery models were considered ancillary. With the rise – or reemergence – of home-based care, that notion is starting to change, according to Andy Slavitt. “The home is going to be the center point … with some obvious exceptions, […]
In-home care and health assessments give payers and providers the ability to better manage vulnerable populations while addressing social determinants of health (SDoH). That’s partly why UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum has invested so mightily in its home- and community-based care efforts, including its HouseCalls program, according to Optum Health Chief Nursing Officer Kristy […]
Although the popular ride-sharing app Lyft Inc. (Nasdaq: LYFT) was formed in 2012, Buck Poropatich considers 2016 a turning point for the company. That’s when company leaders decided to take a look at health care. “That’s when Lyft started to realize health care is not a $4 trillion monolith,” Poropatich, head of Lyft Health Care, […]
Large retailers – like CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) – that have invested heavily in home-based care aren’t just hoping for a boon from those capabilities. They’re banking on it. CVS Health has reworked its business model to capitalize off of the shift from fee for service to value-based payment […]
The senior care referral company A Place For Mom (APFM) is well known, particularly for its senior living placement services. But as home care has become more in demand, APFM has followed suit. The company saw a 30% increase in families inquiring about home care services last year. In line with that was a 30% […]
DispatchHealth has formed a new partnership with Included Health, a virtual-first health care company that helps connect providers and health plans to deliver at-home care. Included Health’s clinical approach to virtual care was one of the main selling points for DispatchHealth, its CEO and co-founder Mark Prather told Home Health Care News. “I really liked […]
The pandemic resulted in a rise of remote patient monitoring (RPM) utilization and a business boon for health care technology companies. Now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, most providers don’t believe it will kill RPM’s home health momentum. Throughout the pandemic, RPM technology was a tool that allowed home health providers to […]
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) leaders see home-based care as a longer-term opportunity that has the potential for continued expansion. They also view it as complementary to many of their other long-term goals, but namely the further pursuit of value-based care models. They expressed these sentiments during a presentation at the BofA Securities Healthcare Conference on […]
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