We are excited to share that we’ve made some updates to our brand. We have simplified our name from Pieces Technologies to just Pieces. A seemingly small change to our name has major significance to our team. While our technology is still the cornerstone of helping you do what you do better, our focus expands beyond just the technology. We are more focused on our overall mission. We’ve updated our logo to reflect that. At Pieces, we make connections: care providers with actionable data, people with services, caseworkers with information. We wanted our logo to better express the idea of bringing things together—to help people help people become whole.

Pieces is committed to helping those who help others. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented change to our world and the communities our clients help support.

Thank you to all the front-line workers at community service and health care organizations for their hard work during these unprecedented times. We know you’re making tremendous efforts to keep your communities updated and connected to vital resources during this national emergency.

At Pieces, we want to help community organizations to best serve their missions and build a happier and healthier world, and we think one of the easiest ways to do this is by collaborating with your local community.  We work with a range of different clients – from universities to food banks – and this variety of partners has given us insight into some of the challenges that nonprofits face. 

Through the use of Pieces Technologies' Iris® platform, UVA Health is enhancing communication between patients and community partners to better support the holistic health of their community members.

By combining hospital discharge software with an application that links patients with community services, the partnership between the two companies aims to reduce readmissions and improve care outcomes.

Natural language processing (NLP) is an important aspect of artificial intelligence that allows machines to process large amounts of data in human (natural) language - for instance, open-text fields or speech-to-text data. With NLP, just as with human language, it is critical that the machine is able to distinguish three things: content, concept and context.

Pieces Technologies has implemented its decision support software solutions - Pieces Decision Support (DS) and Pieces Iris - throughout health systems and community-based organizations nationwide. When we began, we knew we needed a hosting partner that would allow us to scale quickly and provide unparalleled security. We chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) due to their remarkable experience: the largest cloud provider, highest ranked by Gartner among competitors, and deep healthcare client base.

The delivery of high performance clinical care – care that is reliable, efficient, and timely – is difficult. Even under the best marriage of clinical workflow and algorithmic modeling, unpredictable adverse outcomes can occur in the modern clinical practice. Many analytics vendors address this through human oversight of their artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

CMS Dollars Part 1: IPPS Made Simple Protecting Your Hospital Nest Egg

Nadia Christensen, MD

Hospital margins are narrower than ever, and hospitals dedicate many resources to understanding and capturing their reimbursement dollars. Medicare is the single largest purchaser of healthcare in the US – spending $610B in 2014, which is almost a quarter of all spending on medical goods and services. With inpatient hospital reimbursement being one of the largest pieces of the pie, accounting for 23% of all Medicare spending, sharing how Medicare regulations affect your hospital reimbursement with your staff is paramount in protecting your nest egg of reimbursement dollars. This is the first in a series of blogs simplifying complex CMS reimbursement programs.