Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2019
Andrea Park

When a provider is determining the most appropriate post-acute care facility for a patient, they examine a variety of factors, including location, interfacility relationships and, most importantly, patient and family choice — all of which are driven at the core by performance data.

“As families become used to having more data at their fingertips, they’re going to want to make data-driven decisions about placements,” said B.J. Boyle, vice president and general manager of post-acute insights at PointClickCare.

As a result, he explained, while acute care providers must have a cohesive data-sharing infrastructure in place in order to provide necessary information to patients and their families, post-acute providers also face greater scrutiny and must be able to adequately articulate their strengths...

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