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WellSky® Introduces Enhanced Intelligence to the Discharge Process in CarePort Suite of Solutions to Facilitate Superior Care Transitions

Businesswire | April 21, 2023 | Read time : 02:00 min

WellSky® Introduces Enhanced

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced expanded capabilities in its CarePort suite of care transition solutions. These new enhancements equip discharge planners, care managers, and care coordinators with enhanced intelligence at the point of discharge to help them make more informed decisions and ensure patients receive the best possible care and support as they transition from the hospital to home or another care setting.

WellSky and CarePort recently expanded its network with the acquisition of Curaspan. Curaspan clients using CarePort Discharge can now take advantage of an expanded solution set.

“We're thrilled to offer our clients, including those in our newly expanded network available through Curaspan, capabilities to better engage patients and families and enhance their care planning and decision making throughout the discharge process,” said Dr. Lissy Hu, president of connected networks at WellSky. “Through these enhancements, WellSky is enabling care providers to deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right setting to achieve better health outcomes.”

By extending CarePort Connect into the care transitions solutions, providers gain seamless access directly from their discharge planning workflows. This access delivers a deeper knowledge of past post-acute care utilization which is critical to help providers determine the appropriate level of care needed post-discharge and create a care plan tailored to the patient's specific needs. Accessing clinical data and encounter history at a patient’s most vulnerable point of transition can help reduce hospital readmissions and connect patients to the most appropriate care.

CarePort Guide, available in CarePort Discharge, gives hospitals and health systems access to a more robust patient choice tool to assist patients and families in selecting high-quality post-acute care. CarePort Guide provides access to proprietary post-acute quality scores, highlights high-performing post-acute networks and collaboratives, and offers more robust agency profiles and guides, all sharable via text and email. By increasing patient satisfaction with the discharge process and reducing discharge delays, CarePort Guide brings a superior post-acute care selection tool to the market and can increase the number of patients attending in-network skilled nursing facilities by 7%.

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.

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