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From the editor Dear Healthcare Intelligence Network Client,
Nearly one in five older adults who have common operations will end up in the ER within a month of their hospital stay, finds a new study from the University of Michigan Medical School. There is also wide variation among hospitals, with some having four times the rate of post-surgery emergency care for their patients than others, suggesting that hospitals should be graded based on their performance on this measure. But researchers agree that further study is needed before post-surgical ED visits join such measures as hospital readmissions and infections in assessing the quality of hospital care, researchers note. More inside. Experts and the public disagree on whether Medicare spending should be reduced in order to lower the federal budget deficit, according to a special report in the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, a majority of the public says they will vote against candidates who favor the reductions. Americans feel that Medicare recipients have prepaid or are paying for the cost of their healthcare, and that the benefits they do receive are the same or less than what they paid during their working lives. But experts maintain, among other issues, that one of the most important reasons for rising Medicare costs is unnecessary care provided to patients. There is widespread agreement that the use of EHRs in clinical settings can decrease ER visits and hospitalizations for patients with diabetes, according to researchers from Kaiser Permanente (KP). Following the implementation of HealthConnect®, the organization’s comprehensive EHR system, KP researchers found that diabetic patients visited the ER 29 fewer times per 1,000 patients and were hospitalized 13 fewer times per 1,000 patients annually after the implementation. Do you input EHR data for health risk assessments? Sophisticated analytics behind today's health risk assessments or health risk appraisals (HRAs) provide employers, payors and providers an aggregate view of population health and the raw material for the development of prevention and lifestyle change programs. Tell us how your organization uses HRAs to improve population health by October 15, 2013 and get a FREE executive summary of the compiled results. Your colleague in the business of healthcare,Cheryl Miller Editor, Healthcare Business Weekly Update Please send comments, questions and replies to [email protected].
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September 16, 2013
marcus evans Healthcare Executives Summit The National Healthcare CXO event is an invitation-only event held for approximately 90 attendees and is closed to the public. Delegates include CEOs, CAOs and COOs. The topics include: thoughts on the transformation of our healthcare system, cultivating a healthy hospital-physician relationship, quality measurement, techniques and redesigning the care process for improved results, patient satisfaction and experience programs to boost engagement and communication, and reducing costs by investing in outpatient care. Click here to visit the conference Web site.
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1.) 1 in 5 Older Adults End Up in ER after Surgery
2.) 2012 Healthcare Benchmarks: Reducing Avoidable ER Visits
3.) Experts and Public Disagree on Need to Cut Medicare Spending
4.) Population Health Management for Dual Eligibles: Blueprint for Care Coordination
5.) Healthcare Business White Paper: PCMHs in 2012 — Patient Satisfaction Rises with PCMH Adoption
6.) EHRs Linked to Improved Care for Patients with Diabetes
7.) New Table: Characteristics of a Bon Secours Nurse Navigator Case Load
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8.) Managing Population Health with Integrated Registries and Effective Patient Touchpoints
9.) Statewide Medical Home Pilot Reduces ED Visits A patient-centered medical home pilot program in Rhode Island significantly improved medical home recognition scores in ambulatory ED visits, according to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Get the full story. >>Return to this week's industry news
10.) New Models in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Incentives, Infrastructure and IT to Support Accountable Care
11.) 4 Reasons Why Home Visits Are Effective
12.) Home Visit Handbook: Structure, Assessments and Protocols for Medically Complex Patients
13.) Infographic: America, Land of the Obese
14.) Medicare Pioneer ACO Year One: Lessons from a Top-Performer
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This resource delivers actionable information from 134 healthcare organizations on their efforts to reduce inappropriate ED visits, and presents year-over-year trends and
suggests how to engage the primary care physician, urgent care centers and patient education tools in these efforts.
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