WellSky® and Atlantic Health System Expand Partnership to Enhance Care Coordination and Improve Patient Outcomes Post-Discharge
WellSky’s advanced CarePort solutions suite to optimize care transitions for better patient experiences and improved value-based care outcomes
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Atlantic Health System (Atlantic Health), a premier provider of healthcare in New Jersey. Building on the successful implementation of real-time post-acute performance analytics solution, CarePort Insight, in 2021, Atlantic Health is further strengthening care coordination and patient management across the healthcare continuum with CarePort Connect.
With 35 in-network skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), approximately 76,000 patients attributed to Medicare Shared Savings Programs, and nearly 520,000 patients attributed to Atlantic Health’s three accountable care organizations, ensuring positive patient outcomes post-discharge is critical to Atlantic Health’s success as it moves into value-based risk arrangements.
“The addition of CarePort Connect allows Atlantic Health System to gain deeper insight into key patient interactions and improve performance in our value-based contracts,” said Dr. Mark Calderon, medical director of integrated care at Atlantic Health System. “By partnering with WellSky, we’ve significantly increased our ability to collaborate with post-acute partners, ensuring patients receive high-quality, timely care while reducing readmissions and improving financial outcomes.”
CarePort Insight provided Atlantic Health with real-time post-acute performance data to build and maintain its post-acute collaborative. After the successful implementation of CarePort Insight resulted in increased placements to in-network providers and improved SNF length of stay, Atlantic Health added WellSky CarePort Connect.
Now, CarePort Connect empowers Atlantic Health providers with real-time data and visibility as patients journey across the care continuum and facilitates electronic sharing of documents and communication between acute and post-acute settings. With the expansion of CarePort Connect, Atlantic Health can now bridge gaps between different electronic health records systems and gain insights beyond what is in its own EHR.
This comprehensive view is critical for effective care coordination and helps to drive operational efficiencies by centralizing access to discharge paperwork, enabling intelligent patient interventions, and facilitating Transitional Care Management follow-ups post-discharge. Additionally, CarePort Connect supports post-acute relationships by analyzing trends across care settings, identifying areas for improvement like reducing readmissions through root cause analysis, and managing patients with real-time data and care transition alerts, ultimately making it possible to enhance collaboration and improve outcomes.
“Providers need a technology-driven approach to efficiently and effectively manage care transitions and improve outcomes post-discharge,” said Dr. Lissy Hu, president of connected networks at WellSky. “With WellSky’s comprehensive network, advanced performance and trend analytics, and real-time alerts and communication capabilities available in the CarePort suite of solutions, providers gain enhanced visibility into the entire patient journey enabling them to better coordinate care as patients move through the continuum.”
Learn more about how WellSky’s CarePort solutions optimize care coordination and improve value-based patient outcomes.
About WellSky®
WellSky is one of America’s largest and most innovative healthcare technology companies leading the movement for intelligent, coordinated care. Our proven software, analytics, and services power better outcomes and lower costs for stakeholders across the health and community care continuum. In today’s value-based care environment, WellSky helps providers, payers, health systems, and community organizations scale processes, improve collaboration for growth, harness the power of data analytics, and achieve better outcomes by further connecting clinical and social care. WellSky serves more than 20,000 client sites — including the largest hospital systems, blood banks, cell therapy labs, home health and hospice franchises, post-acute providers, government agencies, and human services organizations. Informed by more than 40 years of providing software and expertise, WellSky anticipates clients’ needs and innovates relentlessly to build healthy, thriving communities. For more information, visit wellsky.com.
About Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System (Atlantic Health) is a seven-hospital system located in New Jersey. In 2017, Atlantic Alliance, a clinically integrated network, was created to simplify care collaboration and strengthen relationships between organizations affiliated with Atlantic Health System. Atlantic Alliance represents more than 3,400 health care providers and two ACOs — Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners.
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