In a significant move toward patient-centered care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated that hospitals reporting to the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program submit two brand new measures: SDOH-1 and SDOH-2. These measures are voluntary in 2023 and required in 2024.
The Covid-19 pandemic fundamentally challenged and changed the American health system, showing not just severe gaps and limitations in the care continuum but also tremendous opportunity, especially in case management.
Repisodic powers incredible patient care transitions with automation to greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the discharge planning process, reduce the workload of healthcare professionals, and enhance the overall patient experience.
Using technology to automate time and labor intensive discharge workflows for complex patients can improve patient outcomes and reduce total cost of care.
Repisodic is providing a road map to hospital leaders in care management to prepare for the end of the COVID-19 waivers and to begin moving forward to reestablishing previous health and safety standards in care transitions and hospital discharge planning.
As the staffing crisis remains top of mind for health systems, many organizations are looking to automation technology to address staff burnout and increase patient satisfaction.
The 2022 American Case Management Association National Conference showed the resilience of the industry in the face of challenges and offered an optimistic look into the future of case management and care transitions.
In honor of Patient Experience Week, we are highlighting the importance of the patient experience at discharge when transitioning to post-acute care.
As advances in health information technology continue to promote equitable healthcare, hospital patients across demographics are benefiting from higher quality care transitions at discharge and positive individual health outcomes.
Health systems use Repisodic to view real-time skilled nursing facility (SNF) availability directly in the EHR, giving them the ability to proactively manage the hospital discharge process and speed up patient care transitions.
As traditional silos in healthcare break down and merge into the patient care continuum, a critical strategic priority for health systems is the development of effective partner post-acute care networks.
As we enter the third year of the pandemic, COVID continues to directly and indirectly define the healthcare industry. Hospital census numbers pushed record highs as staffing challenges persisted. With capacity issues top of mind for so many healthcare leaders right now, we believe…
A lot happens in the patient journey at the point of hospital discharge. For many patients, that includes setting up post-acute care either in a home setting or in a healthcare facility. Setting up these services has always been logistically challenging for hospitals, primarily because so many of the processes are manual: conducted via phone calls, texts, …
Facing an ever-changing landscape, healthcare industry experts know that the key to sustainable success is building meaningful relationships. These are our tried-and-true factors that make …
One of our core goals at Repisodic is to collect information about post-acute care and other community providers to share with people trying to make informed decisions about their post-hospital care at hospital discharge. So recently, when…
It’s no secret that patients using Medicaid face greater difficulty navigating their healthcare options than those with private insurance. As tens of millions of Americans have become eligible for Medicaid in recent years, and more is learned about the harsher impact of the coronavirus on low-income individuals and communities, now is a critical …
Fall is often a time of reflection, and for those of us working in healthcare this year has given us plenty to reflect on. While COVID continues to challenge us in numerous ways, it has also produced the silver lining of inspiring healthcare innovation across the country. At Repisodic we have been humbled to partner with the hospital case management and care transition community to play a small part of that innovation. In the spirit of reflection, we wanted to share some key learnings from the past year.
Repisodic Choice, a technology platform used by health systems to streamline and manage the “patient choice” process, is now available through Epic’s App Orchard marketplace.
In March 2020, both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) came out with final rules pushing for more interoperability in patient health data.
In March 2020, both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) came out with final rules pushing more interoperability in patient health data
Repisodic has developed a technology solution to help patients and their families make smarter, faster decisions about post-acute care.
Welcome to 2020! Last year was a big year for post-acute care with many long awaited regulations going into effect as well as a complete change of the reimbursement system. While these changes started in 2019, it is safe to say we won’t truly understand the full effect of them until well into 2020 and after. In fact, many…
2019 was an exciting year for the care transitions and post-acute care industries. Major changes occured with the new Medicare discharge planning rule and Patient Driven Payment Model going into effect. Additionally, we saw several trends in post-acute care utilization and consumerism.
Led by an investment from American Enterprise Ventures, Repisodic will grow sales and technology team in 2020.
In Tech Crunch’s “Where top VCs are investing in digital health,” Jennifer Hartt and John Prendergass, from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, were asked about trends that excite them in digital health. They noted that there is …
In a recent Patient Engagement HIT article discussing discharge planning, Repisodic was mentioned as a tool that improves quality of care, empowers patients, and helps hospitals adhere to new CMS standards.
Recently, Ryan Miller, co-founder and COO of Repisodic, spoke to MedCity News about how Repisodic is helping hospitals prepare for the new Medicare Discharge Planning Regulations. “It’s bringing a lot more structure, rules and requirements, I would say, to the way hospitals are presenting options and discharging patients …
The final rule empowers patients to make informed decisions about their care as they are discharged from acute care into post-acute care (PAC), a process called “discharge planning.” This rule change was required in the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) but has …
Starting October 1, 2019, CMS will be using the Patient Driven Payment Model to reimburse Skilled Nursing Facilities. This new payment model is an attempt to improve the accuracy, reduce burdens, and improve payments to underserved CMS beneficiaries.
