Hospital Readmissions and Post Acute Care

Someone who has a thorough understanding about the connection between post-acute care and readmissions is Chip Grant, MD, Founder & CEO at Watershed Health. As a doctor specializing in interventional cardiology, Dr. Grant experienced an inordinate number of readmissions and became literally obsessed with the issue of readmissions. He recognized the need to better connect post-acute care to the hospitals and health systems, and subsequently created Watershed Health to solve for this challenge. Specifically, he recognized that post-acute care facilities and the hospitals lacked the ability to share patient data effectively and in a timely way, which was essential to ensuring quality patient care and follow-up, ultimately contributing to significantly reduced hospital readmissions.   In a recent interview, Dr. Grant shared his insights on reducing hospital readmissions. Crucial to the process was using technology to facilitate targeted and timely communications between post-acute facilities and hospitals. Watershed Health in partnership with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES), leverages the SES DirectTrust™ accredited HISP to enhance their healthcare provider network offerings. SES Direct, which enables Direct Secure Messaging, gives Watershed customers a simple and secure way to connect with their hospital network. In addition, Watershed uses SES Notify to equip hospital customers to meet the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP) for ADT e-Notifications. SES Notify monitors hospital ADT feeds and delivers automated notifications to healthcare stakeholders. SES Notify also streamlines provider alerting by identifying the provider’s Direct address via NPI matching to deliver the patient event notifications directly into their workflow.   Learn more about Watershed Health: https://watershedhealth.com/  Learn more about Secure Exchange Solutions: https://www.secureexsolutions.com/