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To perform well under bundled and value-based care payment programs, it is essential that ACOs and hospitals adopt innovative, cost-effective solutions to improve clinical outcomes and demonstrate savings. Yet, the lack of interoperability between acute and post-acute care (PAC) providers often creates barriers to reaching these goals. By advancing care coordination efforts with the help of live post-acute data transparency, healthcare organization St. Joseph’s Health System overcame those barriers to strengthen its high-performing PAC network, improving care management across settings while reducing total costs. But it didn’t happen overnight. With patients being referred and choosing a variety of post-acute facilities,...read more

A Discussion with Real Time’s Clinical Account Specialist and Infection Control Expert, Cheryl Scalzo, RN The latest pandemic news indicates that the delta surge appears to be leveling off with a likely decline in COVID-related cases and deaths expected in the coming months. However, immunity may be waning, and we’ll all need another jab to bolster vaccine protection. As such, the CDC officially endorsed COVID-19 booster shots for the country’s long-term care residents and workers in late September. As long-term and post-acute facilities gear up to administer boosters and with an unpredictable flu season right around the corner, we asked...read more

Real Time Medical Systems works with almost a thousand skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and health systems across the country, helping them use live point-of-care data to better manage their patients. Sitting on top of the SNFs’ electronic health records (EHRs), our platform extracts data every hour utilizing algorithms to identify opportunities to intervene before a vulnerable patient progresses to an acuity level that requires hospital readmission. Real Time’s interventional analytics solution enables these facilities to significantly reduce both their readmission rate and their average length of stay (ALOS). But what about health plans, the payers literally taking on risk on...read more

This article is sponsored by Real Time Medical Systems. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Real Time CTO Christopher Miller to learn how his team is helping SNFs optimize their limited staffing resources through live data automation. He walks through the implementation process and explains the benefits of taking analysis out of the equation to provide skilled nursing staff with timely, actionable insights. What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today as Chief Technology Officer at Real Time Medical Systems? Christopher Miller: I learned early on that when you prioritize people first, with...read more

World-renowned infectious disease expert joins company’s Board of Advisors to help drive advancements of infection prevention and control solutions for nursing facility residents nationwide   Baltimore, MD, September 21, 2021 – Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), the leading healthcare interventional analytics solution, is honored to announce that Deborah Birx, M.D., has been appointed to its Board of Advisors. As an advisor, Dr. Birx will work with Real Time’s Executive Team to analyze early detection of infectious disease symptomology to advance the company’s infection prevention and control solution offerings for healthcare organizations nationwide. “I am thrilled to be working with Real...read more

Company earns a 95% Overall KLAS Score from health system, ACO, payer, and nursing facility customers   Baltimore, MD, September 8, 2021 – Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), the leading healthcare interventional analytics solution, announced today that KLAS, a leading healthcare IT research firm, has fully rated the company’s performance in delivering live post-acute care analytics to enhance patient outcomes and decrease hospital readmissions with the release of the KLAS First Look Report. “Real Time Medical Systems has created a real-time analytics solution to monitor post–acute care environments with interventional alerts that identify high-risk patients, reduce hospital readmissions, improve antibiotic...read more