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This article was originally featured in Healthcare IT Today. When acute care providers look at hospital readmissions, it is natural to think about what is being done once the patient is discharged. However, what many forget is that a large portion of patients are discharged to a post-acute facility. In order for post-acute care teams to address things like readmissions and length of stay (LOS), it is essential for acute care providers to create collaborative relationships with their post-acute partners. This includes sharing of data between organizations. Plus, this need is even more apparent when an acute care organization is...read more

Originally published on McKnight's on July 29, 2024. As CMS continues to drive all Medicare patients into value-based care programs by 2030, it is imperative for nursing facilities to begin developing innovative strategies to adopt value-based care initiatives that will improve facility performance, occupancy, and revenues. In this must-attend webinar, McKnight's Long-Term Care News Executive Editor James M. Berklan recently sat down with Scott Rifkin, MD, founder and executive chairman of Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), to discuss how nursing facilities can deploy key strategies that enable them to become a preferred provider with Accountable Care Organizations, as well...read more

Real-time analytics improves care management in long-term care by enabling timely interventions and enhancing outcomes under value-based care models.   With real-time interventional analytics, care management teams can monitor member data and respond to changes in status immediately. In nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities (SNF), historically challenging settings for health plan monitoring and care management, immediate data analysis is a better solution than relying on past data to predict future problems. "Individuals in these facilities are a special population, one that health systems and health plans often lose sight of from a care management and data perspective. But the...read more

This article is sponsored by Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time). In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Scott Rifkin, MD, Real Time’s Founder and Executive Chairman, to talk about the impact of value-based care in the skilled nursing industry. Scott provides his insight into the future of value-based care with post-acute and long-term care populations, and offers his perspective on how post-acute providers can prepare for meeting CMS’ Accountable Care Organization relationship goals while adapting to value-based delivery models. Skilled Nursing News: What life and career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? Scott Rifkin: I’ve...read more