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06/01/2026

Health systems face a familiar question when care coordination programs outgrow spreadsheets, email chains, and manual processes: Do we build something in the EHR—or buy a purpose-built solution?

In a new article, careMESH Founder & CEO Dr. Peter Tippett explores why more health systems are moving away from custom internal builds and toward standards-based, EHR-integrated platforms.

As interoperability standards like FHIR and HL7 mature, the conversation is changing. The question is no longer whether third-party solutions can integrate with the EHR. “The question for health system leaders is not whether to integrate external tools, but how.”

The article examines six critical decision criteria:

✔️ Fit-for-purpose functionality
✔️ Time-to-value
✔️ EHR integration complexity
✔️ Ongoing maintenance burden
✔️ Clinical customization needs
✔️ Staff bandwidth

Most importantly, it explores how health systems can improve care coordination, reduce referral leakage, accelerate time-to-treatment, and support care teams without creating another long-term IT project.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4dTeNaK

NAVIGATE is a care coordination, patient navigation, and care-team management platform that guides patients through personalized care pathways, from referral through treatment to long-term follow-up. It was designed from the ground up to delight every hospital stakeholder and to address every criter

05/27/2026

Behind every successful patient journey is often a Nurse Navigator helping keep care connected.

From coordinating referrals and tracking down records to guiding patients through overwhelming moments, Nurse Navigators do some of the most important, and often unseen, work in healthcare.

As care coordination becomes more complex, their role has never been more essential.

This National Nurses Month, we celebrate the Nurse Navigators who serve as advocates, educators, coordinators, and trusted guides for patients and families every day.

Thank you for the work patients may never see, but never forget. 💙

05/11/2026

Healthcare organizations don’t have a “messaging problem.”
They have an infrastructure problem.

Too many clinical communications strategies still rely on disconnected tools layered on top of broken workflows — resulting in:
❌ Missed referrals
❌ Delayed care coordination
❌ Fax fallback chaos
❌ Provider frustration
❌ Lost visibility into patient outcomes

In our newest blog post, we explore why healthcare messaging should be treated as a core product capability — not just another IT feature.

The reality is: Clinical communication only works when it’s embedded directly into provider workflows, connected to accurate provider data, and built to guarantee delivery across the care continuum. ()

👉 Read the full blog here:
https://bit.ly/4wcVem2

For most health IT product and BD teams, clinical communications with providers is treated as a solved problem. It isn't. It's one of the most persistent, underestimated sources of integration failure, partner friction, and customer churn in the market — and the organizations that get it right bui...

04/29/2026

Referral leakage isn’t just a workflow problem, it’s a patient care problem.

If you’re leading a navigation or oncology program, you’ve likely felt this firsthand:

> Referrals stuck in fax queues or scattered across portals
> No real-time visibility into where patients are in their journey
> Navigators buried in admin work instead of supporting patients

And the result? Delays to treatment. Frustrated staff. Patients falling through the cracks.

Our latest blog dives into why patient navigation is one of the most powerful levers for improving outcomes—and what’s getting in the way for most programs today. https://bit.ly/4cEfXYj

04/15/2026

At careMESH, we believe no patient should fall through the cracks. That’s why we’re excited to present at the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators - AONN+ 2026 Midyear Conference:

📅 Friday, April 17 | 4:30–5:00 PM
🎤 Peter Tippett MD PhD | Founder & CEO
📍 Weston Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA | Santa Anita Room

This session will explore real-world oncology navigation challenges, and practical ways to improve patient-centered care through better coordination, communication, and visibility.

We hope to see you there!

04/13/2026

Cancer screening doesn’t fail at detection, it fails in the handoff.

A new perspective from our Founder & CEO, Peter Tippett MD PhD, explores the “last mile” in cancer screening: what happens after a result is generated, and why that moment is often where outcomes are won or lost.

4️⃣ Just a 4-week delay in treatment can increase mortality
📬 Only 46% of referrals result in a scheduled visit
🔍 Many P*Ps never know if patients complete follow-up care

The issue isn’t just about awareness or access; it’s what happens between the result and the action.

In this blog, Dr. Tippett breaks down:

• Why delivering results to P*Ps is necessary, but not sufficient
• Where breakdowns in communication and workflow occur
• How better connectivity and coordination can accelerate time to treatment

👉 Read the full blog: https://bit.ly/4svxt5I

01/13/2026

New Year. New initiatives. Same communication mess.

Healthcare keeps investing in more technology, yet referrals still stall, transitions still break, and care teams still rely on fax, phone, and scattered inboxes to get work done.

The problem isn’t a lack of tools. It’s a lack of connection between them.

In our latest blog, we lay out a smarter 2026 resolution:
Stop adding tools. Start connecting teams.

Whether you’re a health system trying to coordinate care beyond your four walls or a health IT company trying to make your platform more valuable inside those workflows, fragmented communication creates friction, risk, and lost revenue.

careMESH CONNECT solves this by making secure, cross-organizational communication part of the systems people already use without new logins, inboxes, or networks to manage.

👉 Read the full post: https://bit.ly/4bCFFMu

11/04/2025

What happens to oncology navigation programs when the grant funding ends?

Far too many navigation programs begin with strong grant support, and end when the funding does. In our latest blog, Heather Ciccarelli explores what it really takes to build sustainable, equitable oncology navigation that lasts beyond the pilot phase.

Read Heather’s perspective: https://bit.ly/49kiFB9

📣 Heather and Dr. Peter Tippett will both be at the AONN+ Annual Conference in Orlando this week — stop by the careMESH booth to connect and continue the discussion.

Don’t miss our boothside session:
🗓 Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
💬 The ROI of Care Coordination — Why Connection Pays Off

Let’s talk about how connection, not complexity, drives better care coordination and long-term sustainability in navigation.

As healthcare continues to evolve, and the pressures on navigation programs grow, sustainability will depend on partnerships, integration, and a relentless focus on equity. Embedding navigation into workflow across the care continuum takes modern tools and thinking big.

10/21/2025

Most care coordination models are still built around episodes: a discharge, a referral, a treatment cycle. But what happens when the patient’s journey never really ends?

For people with Heart Failure or ESRD, every “handoff” is just the start of the next phase -- VAD, dialysis, transplant, survivorship. And too often, the communication and accountability reset every time.

It’s time to move from episodic to longitudinal care coordination, where information, relationships, and context follow the patient across every stage of care, with the P*P at the center.

https://bit.ly/3WBnnmt

09/04/2025

Epic users: how many hours does your team spend fixing provider directory errors every week?

For a typical health system, that’s 34 provider updates a day, and each one a potential CSV error, UPM, or manual verification. No wonder IT teams feel stuck in an endless loop.

Our latest blog breaks down the workflow from a data analyst’s perspective, and shows how a managed provider directory can change the game.

Read more: https://bit.ly/47orMzH