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Use cases
EHR integrations
Client types
Awards
Differentiators
Keywords
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Company details

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Description

Product Description:

Care Continuity's Inpatient Post-Discharge Patient Navigation solution leverages technology and targeted patient outreach to increase inpatient attachment rates for follow-up care, improve utilizaiton of your provider network, reduce inpatient readmission rates, and provide actionable intelligence on the strength of your provider network. 

About Care Continuity:

Founded in 2014, Care Continuity provides expert patient navigation solutions that are designed to bridge gaps in healthcare, providing seamless transitions between care settings, reducing network leakage, and promoting optimal health outcomes and patient satisfaction. Through a combination of advanced software, AI and a dedicated team of care concierges, we help guide patients through their care journey while maintaining the integrity of the health system network. This translates to greater patient satisfaction, better health outcomes, and increased margins for our clients.

Product Description:

Transforming the television system into a communication hub providing education, empowerment, education, efficiency, and digital enablement. Built on an open architecture that integrates with your EHR and other HIT, the IPS facilitate care collaboration amongst patients, families and providers improving outcomes and experience for patients and efficiency and job satisfaction for providers. Key features include:

  • Automated and On-Demand video education with learning verification and documentation back to the medical record
  • Patient Empowerment features including meal ordering, room lighting and temperature controls, service requests
  • Real Time Feedback surveys and service recovery shown to improve HCAHPS scores
  • Extensive entertainment included TV, feature length movies, books on tape, relaxation videos
  • Digital Whiteboards and digital door signs surface key information in real time to enhance care and communication
  • Video Connect Telepresence and Picture sharing

The pCare IPS is the 9-time winner of the Best in KLAS award in the IPS category

About pCare:

pCare’s cross continuum, patient engagement solutions help healthcare providers educate and collaborate with patients. The pCare open platform integrates with existing EHR/EMR systems, patient portals, and digital health applications to connect patients, families and care partners. Recognized by KLAS as the quality leader in the interactive patient systems category, pCare is the partner leading healthcare organizations trust to improve care quality, patient outcomes, and financial performance.

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

pCare delivers patient education from the leading content providers (Krames, Healthwise, WedMD, Health Nuts, Elsevier) whose content is kept up to date and reviewed.

With ingeterations in place, pCare tracks when content is accessed, completed, along with answere to learning verification questions - all of which can be ported back to an EHR via results message. Additionally, all de-identified transaction data is saved in our system for reporting and can be made available back to clients via data exports.

Patients can interact with the pCare system via a pillow speaker, tablet, or personal device paired to our system. On Screen Displays alert the patient to view education in preparation for discharge as well as present surveys patients complete in order to give staff a pulse check on an admission. Patients can further interact with the system by answering learning verification questions, placing service quests, ordering meds to beds, ordering meals, and managing room temperature and lighting controls.

pCare CareFlows are triggered by both EHR data and interactions with our system to guide the patient during an admission. Available CareFlows include Discharge Planning, Falls Prevention, Infection Control, and Pain Management.

Navigating the system is as easy as using a television remote and it can be done via a person device. The content presented is from validated patient education publishers whose content is not only scientifically accurate but created in accordance with health literacy design priciples. In addition to providing content in multiple languages, our VideoConnect telepresence solution include Language Connect which facilitates 1-click access to video translation services.

pCare intergrates with leading EHR systems which enables prescription and documentation of education transactions. CareFlows further automate the process by dosing information over the duration of an admission.

pCare integrates with leading EHRs including Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), Meditech, and Altera (Allscripts)

Use Cases

Description:

A health system is struggling to reduce inpatient readmissions which is negatively impacting their Star ratings. The system believes the readmissions are avoidable if discharged patients attended necessary follow-up and speciality appointments in a timely matter. However, with the data they have, it is difficult to segment their readmission issues by service line, discharge diagnosis, and facility/clinic. 

By leveraging Care Continuity's Inpatient Post-Discharge Patient Navigation services, the health system was not only able to reduce readmissions through better navigation tactics, but they also unlocked valuable insights into network performance. 

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Medium to extra large health systems

Description:

Via the personalized patient portal accesssible on the in-room TV, patient have access to a wide variety of education that can be automatically prescribed via data from the EHR as well as accessed on demand. All education transactions are documented back into the EHR. Via integrations with a variety of HIT, patietns can place service requests, order meals, adjust environmental controls, completed satisfation surverys, and thank nursing staff for their care.  

Pediatric use cases:

Same functionality above with an age-appopriate interface.

Users:

Patients, families, and staff

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, ERP system, Patient portal, Pop health platform

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, ERP system, Patient portal, ADT, Credentialing, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Meditech, Cerner, Allscripts, Other

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Client Types

None provided

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Leading EHR functionality takes a very basic approach to patient navigation. When utilized, the EHR prioritization queue is binary, labeling every patient as urgent or non-urgent. Instead, Care Continuity not only expands the total number of evaluated data points needed to properly prioritize a patient, but Care Continuity also expands the priority listing to 10 levels, allowing for a more nuanced and tailored navigational experience. 

In addition, the EHR functionality requires the health system to staff a team of navigators. Unfortunately, this largely non-clinical function is staffed by clinical staff, severely hampering their ability to work at the top of their license. 

Care Continuity pairs their purpose-built software with a team of trained, non-clinical concierges who are experts in patient experience and proper navigation.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

With more than a decade of experience working with the nation's leading health systems, Care Continuity has had the honor of navigating millions of patients through the healthcare continuum. 

Leveraging purpose-built software with proprietary algorithms designed to efficiently navigation patients, Care Continuity can provide a customizable, high-ROI solution for health systems of any size.

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

pCare has been providing innovative communication, entertainment, and education solutions leveraging television systems for healthcare organizations since the 1950's. This is our are area of expertise that is unmatched in the industry.

We understand how to create a great experience for the patient while complimenting care and improving efficiency of the staff by:

integrating into hospital systems

adopting hospitals workflows

offloading non-clinical tasks from nurses to patients wherever possible.

Backed by 7 decades of experience and expertise, the pCare team compliments and optimized internal resources by taking on the tasks we do best and allowing hospital clinical, IT, and facilities teams to focus on what they do best.

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • Best in KLAS for Interactive Patient Care System Category for 9 yrs running. (2015 - 2024).
  • Full service provider. pCare can manage setting up the television infrastructure including the wiring and switches, we can supply, provision, and install the television and hardware, we configure the software and train the staff.
  • pCare uses HIPAA certified and Healthcare credentialed staff to install the systems - not 3rd party contractors. We install faster and at a lower cost than any competitor.
  • HITRUST i1 Certified
  • Open Architecture. The pCare Connect API is designed to integrate with client technology and workflows.
  • Trust - We have been wholly focused on serving healthcare clients for over 70 years - longer than anyone else in the industry. With a proven record for technological innovation and superior service, hospital's nationwide trust pCare to deliver.

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