Readmissions news and information

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds. The Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit is based on Project...
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Dr. Eric Coleman, director of the Care Transitions Program at the University of Colorado Denver, in a conversation with Modern Healthcare Reporter Maureen McKinney.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions.
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The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition.
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How often patients land in the hospital and how long they stay are better indicators of which patients may be readmitted than types of illnesses, number of prescriptions and other factors.
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Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have re-introduced the Fostering Independence Through Technology Act—legislation designed to help lower the hospital readmissions rate in rural and underserved communities.
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Twenty more organizations will join the 82 already participating in the CMS's community-based care transitions program, launched in 2011 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Two prominent health policy researchers say the CMS' penalty program for readmissions has potential but needs some tweaks in order to protect safety net hospitals.
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With the 3M 360 Encompass System, you get the right clinical information at the right time. By merging clinical and financial data, the system allows you to analyze, supplement and proactively execute on key clinical and financial data—at the point of care—resulting in a significant...
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The Obama administration says provisions of the healthcare reform law have led to fewer Medicare patients returning to hospitals within 30 days of discharge.
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