At the Heart of Home CareBy Kathy Pruitt My new role with Corstrata has taken my life in an interesting direction! Corstrata is not an EHR company like those I...
Telehealth is Here, But Must Continue to Evolve!When my partner and I started Corstrata a few years ago, we could have never predicted the flood gates that COVID-19 would open. We...
In-Home Wound Care Programs: The Solution for COVID-19 and BeyondFor years, outpatient wound care clinics have dominated the landscape in the care of patients with recurring, chronic wounds, with more...
What’s your Strategy for Marketing Your Wound Program to Key Referral Partners?Given that home health patients with wounds are in the clinical grouping with the highest potential reimbursement (estimated 30-day...
What if there was an “Easy Button” for wound care?Why Can’t Wounds Be A Positive For Home Health With PDGM Rather Than A Source Of Frustration? Everyone in Home Health is preparing for...
Building a Wound Program of Excellence Under PDGMPDGM (Patient Driven Groupings Model), will go into effect at the start of 2020. It is the most significant change in Medicare...
Corstrata Announces CE Courses Series: Wound BasicsCorstrata is pleased to announce the launch of our wound educational offerings. As experts in wound management and prevention, our team...
Surprising Stats and Solutions for Venous Leg UlcersAccording to an article published on the website of the National Institutes of Health, Human Skin Wounds: A Major and Snowballing Threat...
Celebrating National Nurses Week with CorstrataWe're halfway through National Nurse's Week, and we at Corstrata want to take the time to acknowledge our wonderful nursing staff for all...
Corstrata Wound Care Experts Published on Telemedicine SolutionsCorstrata wound care experts published in Today’s Wound Clinic a paper asserting the clinical and financial benefits of telemedicine in...
ATA Annual Conference 2017: Here's What We LearnedWe highlighted in our blog some time ago that Telehealth is much more than technology. We explained that Telehealth is a tool to be used...
The Importance of Organized Home Health and Hospice Wound CareAs a former home health and hospice manager responsible for overseeing quality improvement, I witnessed the following scenario playing...
The Key Questions for the AHRQ Systematic ReviewThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the Health and Human Services Department recently published in the...
Key Takeaways from DFCon 2017 in HoustonWOW! Where do I start?! I had the great fortune to attend the 2017 DFCon (Diabetic Foot Conference) last week in Houston, for the first...
Our Thoughts on the March 2017 MedPAC ReportWell, there were no big surprises from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) most recent report to Congress (March 2017)....
Wound Care Inefficiencies in Home Health and HospiceWe know that value-based care is here to stay. No matter what changes come with healthcare reform in Washington, most healthcare leaders...
Telehealth: More Than Just TechnologyTechnology is a tool to enable or facilitate solving a problem or making a process more efficient. In telehealth technology - whether it...
Care Coordination as a Key Component of Value-Based CareTo effectively move healthcare toward the goal of true value-based care, providers must be able to identify those patients who are at the...
Where to Find Best Practices for Wound ManagementFirst of all, what really is evidence-based practice (EBP), and why is it fundamental to care delivery? According to D.L. Sackett, a...
