No matter who your patient is, there’s no way to avoid a certain degree of risk. If there were, preventing readmissions would be a much easier prospect. Read More
by Luis Castillo in Care Transitions, Patient Discharge, Risk Stratification
In this first installment of a monthly column called “It Things in Healthcare IT,” Luis Castillo talks genomics and the potential impact on the patient transition process. Read More
“Saving a patient’s life…that’s pretty cool.” In this short video, Ensocare President and CEO Luis Castillo shares his advice for students who are interested in entering the IT field. Read More
by Jill Reeves, MHA in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Technology Solutions
I want to tell you a story. This is something that happened to a customer of ours, but they weren’t a customer at the time this particular story took place. If they were, I would be mortified. Read More
by Luis Castillo in Patient Safety, Care Transitions, Post-acute Care
Recently, Ensocare CEO Luis Castillo joined Roberta Mullin on InterviewsNOW, a featured program of HealthcareNOW radio. During their wide-ranging discussion, they touch on, "how biometric information collected passively through wearable technology can play a key role in managing patients post-discharge. The discussion... Read More
by Ensocare in Patient and Family Engagement, Mobile Technology
Even as the healthcare information technology (IT) field has made strides to facilitate cooperation between EHRs (electronic health records), it’s become abundantly clear that we still have a way to go to achieve anything approaching complete and total interoperability. Read More
by Luis Castillo in Healthcare Technology Solutions, Care Coordination Software, Interoperability
Chad White knows a thing or two about change. Not only did he become a parent to his daughter, Noelle, in the last couple years, the Ensocare Junior Web Developer also recently transitioned into a new career in the IT field. After spending more than a decade in graphic design and corporate sign production, Chad took a... Read More
We need to talk about narrow networks. With healthcare costs escalating, payers are looking into every possible avenue to ensure profitability. As a result, the idea of the narrow network has grown in popularity. Insurers no doubt want to steer their covered patients toward those facilities that strike the perfect... Read More
About a year ago, we discussed a problem that many, if not all, physicians and providers have probably encountered at some point in their practice: why won’t patients take their meds? It’s a good read, but it’s since struck us that we maybe didn’t go far enough. After all, taking medication on a prescribed regimen is... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Patient Discharge, Patient and Family Engagement, Care Coordination
We’d all like to have more hours in the day, wouldn’t we? As a nurse myself, I get it. Seemingly every shift, something will crop up that throws your entire day into disarray. Whether it’s a genuine emergency, an unanticipated patient need or a directive handed down from the top at your organization, you’re going to... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Care Transitions, Patient Discharge, Post-acute Care
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