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September 2021

Discharge Planning: Arrange Patient Followup at the Point of Care and Become the Practice Everyone Talks About

By |2024-01-17T14:11:22-07:00September 14th, 2021|Discharge Planning, Practice Improvement, Solutions for Doctors, Solutions for Healthcare Administrators|

In the practice of medicine no two worlds are farther apart than the inpatient and outpatient ones. There is a true disconnection between the goings-on in the hospital and the support staff back at the office. Unfortunately, this gap often leads to loss of patient follow up, suboptimal care, and in certain instances, hospital [...]

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June 2019

Want to Lower Readmissions? Do These 6 Things Now.

By |2024-01-17T14:11:30-07:00June 19th, 2019|Healthcare News, Patients, Solutions for Healthcare Administrators|

Patients are getting lost between the in-patient and out-patient world.  This results in higher readmissions, sicker patients, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Today, on average, the national rate for 30-day all-cause readmission is almost 15% (see Figure 1 below). Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost [...]

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