Hospital readmissions have a two-fold impact. They not only drive up the cost of care, but they also create a glut of surplus patients in hospitals waiting to be discharged to a limited number of beds at a partner skilled nursing facility.
The Philadelphia medical center is working with a local nursing association and using technology from Vivify Health to help decrease readmission rates for liver failure patients.
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Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine's new Center for Connected Care brings together the health system's telehealth-related activities, including the Penn E-lert ICU and the Home Telehealth program.
Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the fight over abolishing the Affordable Care Act has drowned out talk about how to make the health care system more effective.
In September 2016, University of Tennessee Medical Center started using Loopback Analytics' solution to cut readmission rates and improve medication adherence among patients.
The fines are based on Medicare patients who left the hospital from July 2012 through June 2015.
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Las Vegas hospitalist-turned-video parody star ZDogg takes on hospital readmissions with "Readmissions," based on R. Kelly's 2003 hit, "Ignition (Remix)." Just try to show me another music video that mentions PICC lines, Press Ganey Scores and the Joint Commission.
A colleague's comment some 15 years ago sparked Dr. Tim Garson's grand idea for a way to expand access to affordable healthcare while lowering costs to the system. “He came up to me and said, you know, 50 percent of my patients could be taken care of by a good grandmother,” recalled Garson, now the director of the Center for Health Policy at University of Virginia.
Nearly a quarter of patients who are hospitalized for heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Health Recovery Solutions developed an iPad- based program to keep patients on track and help hospitals identify which patients are at risk for being readmitted. In the seven hospitals that currently use the program, patients are […]
Eighty-five percent of healthcare executives in a new survey said their organization’s business plan addresses the CMS penalty for 30-day readmissions, and there are a few particular strategies many of them seem to be using. HealthLeaders Media asked 106 health system CEOs and physicians at 75 hospitals how their organizations are dealing with the reimbursement […]
Discover what tools are essential for efficient, safe surgical extractions in today’s health care landscape, from elevators to forceps and beyond.
If blogger Dr. Kevin Pho had his way, more doctors would be like Malcolm Gladwell, author of (most recently) David and Goliath. Why? “We need more storytellers,” Pho writes. If doctors and the healthcare industry were better at communicating, I’m inclined to agree. In a past life, I taught engineers, pharmacy students and budding young […]
St. Jude Medical (STJ) announced FDA approval of its ILUMIEN OPTIS PCI Optimization System, and the product’s U.S. launch. The device gives physicians a real-time, 360-degree panoramic view of the arteries, to help with stent placement and to guide treatment for patients with coronary artery disease. But what’s the true value proposition between this new […]
Reducing re-admissions is practically a cottage industry. With hospitals facing penalties for higher than average rates of readmission for certain conditions, health IT companies and entrepreneurs have responded with an array of analytical and remote monitoring tools. They can range from identifying patients at risk for readmission to alerting staff to patients who appear to […]