How Papa Is Driving Results in Companion Care
A series of recently released studies on Papa, a companion care company, found that the startup reduced emergency department visits, decreased healthcare spending and improved loneliness.
It’s Time We Get Smart About Senior Care
These past two years have emphasized the importance of technology more than ever before. As more seniors embrace the benefits of technology, SNFs and long-term care centers have a responsibility to their residents to implement life-changing and life-saving smart tech that's revolutionizing senior care.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
How to End the Turf Battles of Senior Care
Let’s tear down the silos that transport seniors through the classic stages of hospitals, rehab, assisted living, and nursing homes. Value-based care or better yet, global risk, has a way of disintegrating these silos. If providers want to get paid, they must collaborate. That means instead of treating a singular issue, we must reach out to the rest of the ecosystem, coordinating treatment and driving together toward a meaningful outcome.
Startup Founded by Brown Undergrads Raises $14M to Improve Care for Vulnerable Seniors
Intus Care, a predictive analytics platform designed to improve care outcomes among geriatric patients, recently closed a $14.1 million Series A funding round. The startup's mission is to improve the way PACE programs use their data so they can maintain and enhance the quality of care they provide to vulnerable seniors.
How to bring direct primary care into the home
A primary care provider may visit some homebound patients in their homes two or three times a year, with allied and affiliated care providers delivering other services as needed to the patient, such as wellness visits, nutritious meals, groceries, and assistance with daily activities.
Bill mandating electronic prior authorizations may not improve care quality
The Act, along with mandating the adoption of electronic prior authorization, requires greater levels of transparency, approval rates, and rationale for denied requests.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
What Alignment Healthcare is doing in preparation for Medicare open enrollment
The insurer is expanding its offerings for its $0-premium Preferred Provider Organization plans and special needs plans for dually eligible beneficiaries. Alignment is adding 14 counties to its footprint, bringing its reach to 8.3 million Medicare-eligible adults in 52 markets.
Mental health startup for seniors rakes in $32M from General Catalyst, Mass General Brigham Ventures, others
There is a dearth of professionals with licenses and training to provide care for seniors’ mental and behavioral health challenges — such as Alzheimer's and other dementias, anxiety and depression. Seattle-based Rippl Care is seeking to change this. The startup just closed a $32 million seed funding round led by ARCH Venture Partners and General Catalyst.
Staying at home: Growing remote monitoring for post-acute care patients
High levels of clinical intervention for the most at-risk patients is not needed for many of the people living in nursing homes, but a more intermediate combination of continuous monitoring, appropriate home visits, and out-patient visits would have a positive impact upon their lives, health, and the overall cost of care.
Study: Seniors prefer in-home care, but most are unaware of options available
Of those aged 50 years or older, 70% would prefer in-home care, a new survey by Cross Country Workforce Solutions Group found. But while 66% of respondents said they have thought about their future healthcare needs, only 9% said they are actively looking into it and 34% said they haven’t thought about it at all.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Startup targeting at seniors and caregivers launches an online expert tool to help navigate their care
Earlier this month Honor launched its Honor Expert platform, an online tool for seniors, caregivers and family to ask questions and get answers about aging-related matters. The platform can also connect specialists to users and get them educational resources.
3 strategies for how physicians can care for seniors in 2022
With patients choosing to recover and age in the home in record numbers, physicians are being asked to coordinate care with post-acute, home and community-based organizations, and payers at levels never seen previously. This poses a significant challenge for physicians.
Health plans can help combat the epidemic of loneliness for older Americans
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services only recently gave the green light for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to provide a wider range of benefits that address social determinants of health. With that new charge, it’s time for health care payers to join the fight against loneliness.
Technology is the next social determinant of health
This is what we have known for years: medical care alone does not equal better health outcomes. Current research by the National Library of Medicine shows that medical care accounts for 10 to 20 percent of the modifiable contributors to healthy outcomes for a population. The lion’s share of the contributors — the other 80 […]
Senior care startup Papa valued at $1.4B
The startup matches seniors with companions to help with non-medical tasks. It currently has partnerships with more than 65 health plans.