Noah Finkel: Nine Ways Hospitals Can Use Electronic Health Records to Reduce Readmissions
Submitted By ASchreiber, Created 09/09/2014 - 16:58
- Use readmission risk assessment to apply resources to most appropriate patients
- Use electronic communication to increase reliability of communication with primary care physicians
- Use pharmacy resources to improve quality of medication reconciliation
- Use EHR resources to support BOOST rounds to improve collaboration
- Improve patient education by integrating with discharge workflows
- Use EHR workflows to support discharge coaches
- Support EHR build that creates patient-centric multidisciplinary discharge paperwork
- Support coordination of care with electronic means of scheduling post-discharge care prior to discharge
- Reduce technical and financial barriers to communication of medication list and medication compliance at home
Source: The Hospitalist, September 2014
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