--- title: The UbiBlog | Patient Engagement and Value-Based Care Analysis | Episode of Care (2) description: Episode of Care | 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. (2) --- [![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/) ## [Maintain a HIPAA-Compliant Digital Strategy for Patient Communication](https://blog.ubicare.com/maintain-a-hipaa-compliant-digital-strategy-for-patient-communication) Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Mar 27, 2018 2:10:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/pregnant_woman_on_phone_click-cropped.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/maintain-a-hipaa-compliant-digital-strategy-for-patient-communication) In our personal lives, Americans have grown used to giving up personal information to technology in exchange for convenience. We manage passwords using smartphone keychain and apps. We share our emails, phone numbers and birthdays to get store coupons. We save our credit cards in online shopping carts. As healthcare professionals, however, we are cautious—fearful, even—of dealing in personal information because of the 5-letter abbreviation that looms over our work: HIPAA. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, became law in 2002 and was designed to protect the private information of patients and to make sure they are well informed about their choices and their consent for those choices. Yet even as far back as 2003, HIPAA recognized the need to balance patient privacy and efficiency for healthcare providers. In fact, HIPAA makes digital patient engagement, education and care management easier than you may think. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/maintain-a-hipaa-compliant-digital-strategy-for-patient-communication) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/maintain-a-hipaa-compliant-digital-strategy-for-patient-communication#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [Innovation](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/innovation), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology), [Episode of Care](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/episode-of-care), [healthcare marketing](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-marketing) ## [Want Success with Total Joint Replacement Outpatients? Teach Them Well!](https://blog.ubicare.com/want-success-total-joint-replacement-outpatients) Posted by [Deirdre Wilson](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/deirdre-wilson) on Feb 8, 2018 8:40:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![man-at-home-on-tablet.jpg](https://blog.ubicare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/man-at-home-on-tablet.jpg?width=671&height=448&name=man-at-home-on-tablet.jpg) As more hospitals turn to same-day discharge for joint replacement patients, it’s more important than ever to make sure those patients know what to expect, how to care for themselves post-op and how to get the most from their recovery at home. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/want-success-total-joint-replacement-outpatients) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/want-success-total-joint-replacement-outpatients#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology), [Episode of Care](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/episode-of-care) ## [When Is the Best Time to Activate Patients?](https://blog.ubicare.com/best-time-to-activate-patients) Posted by [Jo Charest](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/jo-charest) on Sep 8, 2016 3:29:40 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/timing-is-everything.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/best-time-to-activate-patients) There are many solutions out there that engage patients at different times in the care journey. At UbiCare, we have always maintained that [setting patient expectations earlier in the care episode](http://www.ubicare.com/patient-activation) is better to improve patient outcomes. Research supports this, as well. In a [Gallup study](http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/183317/benefits-pre-surgery-education.aspx) of pre-surgery patients who received education to set expectations, researchers found that going into surgery with a good idea of what’s coming afterwards had the biggest impact on patient satisfaction. 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