This Week's Challenge: Medication reconciliation is overwhelmingly the top tool used by care transitions management staff to improve care as patients transition between sites of care, according to HIN's 2015 Healthcare Benchmarks: Care Transitions Management. The survey also identified seven other tools most often used as part of the care transitions management process.

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2015 Healthcare Benchmarks: Care Transitions Management, HIN's fourth annual analysis of these cross-continuum initiatives, examines programs, models, protocols and results associated with movement of patients from one care site to another, including the impact of care transitions management on quality metrics and the delivery of value-based care.

With a special focus on the patient discharge process and follow-up, this 50-page report is based on responses from 116 healthcare companies to HIN's fourth e-survey on Managing Care Transitions conducted in February 2015.

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This chart is sponsored by: A Patient Engagement Framework: Intermountain Healthcare's Approach in a Value-Based System, an October 28, 2015 webinar.

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© 2015 Healthcare Performance Benchmarks by Healthcare Intelligence Network.
Editor: Patricia Surdovel, [email protected];
Publisher: Melanie Matthews, [email protected]