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Podcast: Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episode: Hospital Readmissions and Post Acute Care
Description: 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...