--- title: The UbiBlog | Patient Engagement and Value-Based Care Analysis (24) description: UbiCare provides total engagement solutions enabling hospitals to be at the forefront of patient-centered innovation and value-based care through targeted education, mobile connections and real time data. (24) --- [![logo](https://blog.ubicare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Ubicare_Image/logo.png?width=250&name=logo.png)](http://www.ubicare.com/) - [Home](https://ubicare.com/) - [About](https://ubicare.com/about-ubicare/) - [Blog](https://blog.ubicare.com/) - [Client Login](https://mobile.ubicare.com) - [Contact Us](https://ubicare.com/contact/) ## [5 Ways Our Culture Helps Us Change the World](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-ways-our-culture-helps-us-change-the-world) Posted by [Betsy Weaver, Ed.D.](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/betsy-weaver-ed-d) on Apr 26, 2016 3:00:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) As we prepare to host some of Boston’s digital health innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs at our office April 27, during the [Boston NewCo Festival](http://bos.newco.co/), we’re reflecting on the mission that drives us and the other companies selected to participate in this event. We are here, quite simply, to change the world. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-ways-our-culture-helps-us-change-the-world) 1 Comment [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-ways-our-culture-helps-us-change-the-world#comments-listing) Topics: [Innovation](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/innovation), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology) ## [UbiCare and the Startup Institute Focus on Innovation in CJR Patient Education](https://blog.ubicare.com/ubicare-and-the-startup-institute-focus-on-innovation-in-cjr-patient-education) Posted by [The UbiCrew](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/the-ubicrew) on Apr 15, 2016 11:00:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/social-suggested-images/Improve-joint-surgery-episode-of-care.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/ubicare-and-the-startup-institute-focus-on-innovation-in-cjr-patient-education) The long-awaited [Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement initiative](https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/cjr) (CJR) became reality on April 1, 2016. Under CJR, hospitals must find ways to rein in costs, reduce complications and improve patient outcomes for hip and knee replacements—the most common joint-replacement procedures—in order to receive maximum reimbursements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/ubicare-and-the-startup-institute-focus-on-innovation-in-cjr-patient-education) 2 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/ubicare-and-the-startup-institute-focus-on-innovation-in-cjr-patient-education#comments-listing) Topics: [Improving Patient Outcomes](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/improving-patient-outcomes), [Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/comprehensive-care-for-joint-replacement), [Innovation](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/innovation) ## [Digital Patient-Provider Connections are Critical to Value-Based Care](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-patient-provider-connections-are-critical-to-value-based-care) Posted by [Betsy Weaver, Ed.D.](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/betsy-weaver-ed-d) on Mar 31, 2016 8:30:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/Connected_Hospital_top.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-patient-provider-connections-are-critical-to-value-based-care) You’re collecting information about your patient’s health, but what are you doing with it? Does it sit—disconnected—in your digital systems? Or does it travel seamlessly between them? The infographic below shows how hospitals and patients efficiently form a meaningful relationship and why digital connections and education are essential to value-based care. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-patient-provider-connections-are-critical-to-value-based-care) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-patient-provider-connections-are-critical-to-value-based-care#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement) ## [API vs. Portal in Meaningful Use 3](https://blog.ubicare.com/api-vs.-portal-in-meaningful-use-3) Posted by [Betsy Weaver, Ed.D.](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/betsy-weaver-ed-d) on Mar 14, 2016 8:30:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/APIvsPortal.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/api-vs.-portal-in-meaningful-use-3) As Meaningful Use moved to Stage 3 (MU3) in 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added APIs (application programming interface) as an alternative or complement to patient portals. But are these two digital health tools at odds with each other? 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