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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Fixing The Hospital-To-Home Health Care Transition

Home Health Care

The Research Institute for Home Care (RIHC) helped support the research. The goal of the SOAR program is to provide a high-quality, nurse-led replicable transition of care framework from hospital to home. It’s a really interesting model, and it’s really important to look at how to bridge those gaps in care transitions.”

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Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Radial Analytics , a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital. Such opportunities to intervene often occur at care transitions.

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Cyberattacks: A Recipe for Nurse Burnout and Compromised Patient Care

HIT Consultant

Ashley Franks, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at TigerConnect Nurses, the backbone of the medical field, have been facing a critical threat: burnout. A worrying 29% of nurses reported feeling like they’re at their wits’ end several times a week or even daily.

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naviHealth CMO: Home Health Partnerships Critical to Successful Care Transitions

Home Health Care

And because of the pandemic, I think there was a rapid adoption to care in alternative sites. There were many seniors who would not want to go into a nursing home because nursing homes were hit so hard with COVID-19. We were able to say, “Okay, what is the next phase post-COVID around these trends with care in the home?”

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Skilled Nursing Facilities: Participate in Interoperability Survey

Briggs Healthcare

IQVIA is conducting a survey for the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to assess skilled nursing facility (SNF) capabilities related to interoperability, electronically exchanging information across organizations and systems. Why participate?

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3 Ways Post-Acute Placement Solutions Improve Transitions of Care

HIT Consultant

For example, a hospital case manager may have to send faxes and make phone calls to multiple skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) within the hospital’s network to identify which facility is most prepared to accept a given patient. In the past, care transitions have often come with concerns about risk and uncertainty.