PointClickCare Care Quality Tool and Expertise in Value-Based Care Featured

LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus PointClickCare was quoted in a Senior Housing Business article, “InterFace Panel Explains How Data Drives Seniors Housing Sales, Marketing.” Kristy Yoskey, vice president and market leader of senior living, explained how PointClickCare’s care quality tool draws on an extensive national health data network to help providers to learn about a prospective resident’s hospitalization history, understand the prospect’s health status, and predict the best placement.

PointClickCare also provided sponsored content for McKnight’s Senior Living. “Harnessing technology to elevate quality measures in value-based care: A guide for practice groups” discusses how to leverage advanced care management platforms, data analytics and electronic health records, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), and patient engagement. In addition, PointClickCare has been listed on The Globe and Mail’s 2025 ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies for the seventh consecutive year.

Ingleside Advises Avoiding the Hype of AI 

Dusanka Delovska-Trajkova, chief information officer for LeadingAge CAST Patron Ingleside, with three retirement communities in the Washington, DC, area, spoke at the Skilled Nursing News RETHINK conference in early September in Chicago. Her remarks on how Ingleside consciously chooses only solutions that improve workflow were featured in the Senior Housing News article “How Senior Living Operators Go Beyond ‘Hype’ of AI, Other New Tech.”

Ingleside analyzes staffers’ key tasks and challenges to determine which technologies can best improve efficiency, said Delovska-Trajkova. The organization also explores how to make relevant resident data stand out to staffers and partners with universities to test new technologies and reduce costs.

Netsmart Partners with Hospice of the Western Reserve

LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus Netsmart, with its Netsmart CareFabric® comprehensive platform that empowers human services and post-acute organizations to optimize care and services, has been selected to support post-acute service lines for Hospice of the Western Reserve (HOWR).

Hospice of the Western Reserve will utilize a variety of solutions and services within the CareFabric platform—ranging from patient and family engagement to augmented intelligence technology—accessing a powerful combination of automation, referral summarizations, revenue cycle management and telehealth, plus the Netsmart collection automation solution, AlphaCollector™. Yahoo! Finance shared the news in a HOWR press release.

ALIS Part of New Innovative Multi-Partner Care Model, Cutting Falls and Hospitalizations

LeadingAge Corporate Partner ALIS (Assisted Living’s Intelligent Software) is part of the first pilot of the Alliance for Connected Senior Living, a new collaboration among five industry leaders—ALIS, EmpowerMe Wellness, Inspiren, Senior Doc, and Solera—working together to test a groundbreaking model for resident-centered care. The Alliance represents a blueprint for industry-wide changes, moving beyond single-technology implementations to a collaborative, collective, multi-partnered approach, according to a PR Newswire release.

The pilot has already demonstrated strong results, with AI connecting information for care teams. Already, Solera’s memory care community has seen a 57% reduction in falls, a 54% drop in ER visits, and a 44% decrease in hospitalizations compared to January-August baseline metrics.

Integrated Health Systems Acquires ProviNET Solutions

LeadingAge Corporate Partner ProviNET Solutions, a premier information technology solutions provider that delivers comprehensive services for organizations large and small, has been acquired by Integrated Health Systems, a specialized provider of information technology managed services in the post-acute healthcare market, says a ProviNET news release.

With a full suite of managed IT services, enterprise application consulting, and infrastructure solutions and a rich legacy in senior living, ProviNET empowers organizations to innovate confidently and operate securely. Integrated Health offers start-to-finish HIPAA-compliant IT solutions, allowing facilities to focus on their residents and patients. Carl Goodfriend, CIO at ProviNET and a LeadingAge CAST Commissioner, will assume the role of CIO of the combined company.

WellSky Launches AI-Powered CarePort Referral Intake Solution

LeadingAge Corporate Partner WellSky has launched the next-generation WellSky CarePort Referral Intake solution, which uses AI-powered capabilities to allow faster patient intake response times. Evolving from the CarePort and Curaspan solutions, this new platform streamlines intake workflows and generates document summaries to speed response.

The WellSky CarePort Referral Intake solution leverages WellSky Summarize, a WellSky SkySense AI tool that scans each referral packet, pulls out key patient information and turns it into a concise, easy-to-read summary within seconds, helping providers quickly assess patient needs and respond faster. WellSky is a global health and community care technology and services company. HomeCare shared the news.