Lower readmission rates while prioritizing care and operational performance with the support of streamlined healthcare workflows.
Avoid the negative effects of excess hospital readmissions
To reduce the likelihood that patients will return to the hospital for further care, patients, providers and post-acute facilities must have access to data within an optimized care community. With this information at hand, there are immediate operational and savings benefits.
Growing penalties and lower Medicaid reimbursements due to readmissions keep hospitals from profiting after patient expenses are paid.
Hospital readmissions lead to increased length of stay and the utilization of more hospital resources.1
1Source: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services"
When calculating a facility’s Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, hospital readmissions represent 22%2 of the total measurement.
2Source: "Readmission Rates and Their Impact on Hospital Financial Performance: A Study of Washington Hospitals."
25-40 percent of hospital readmissions are preventable likely as a result of a lack of communication and coordination.3
3Source: “Understanding your Readmissions: How to Reduce Penalties.”
Employ strategies to reduce readmission rates
There are several ways that hospitals can reduce their readmission rates. Aidin’s external relationship manager offers capabilities that correlate with best practices to prevent hospital readmissions.
With Aidin, you can help your hospital system save significant staff time and reduce patient readmissions by consolidating all of your requests, documents, and daily workflows in one seamless communication hub.
Aidin empowers patients to choose the best medical care for themselves and filter based on facility rankings on responsiveness, quality of care and reliability.
Aidin houses workflows and data to promote operational efficiencies.
Aidin’s referral marketplace gives case managers access to customized networks to build partnerships with outside healthcare organizations.
Our software can help your healthcare organization create capacity and maximize staff efficiency.
Our software can help your healthcare organization create capacity and maximize staff efficiency.
Reduces time consuming and expensive operational inefficiencies by centralizing the case management process. Combined with improved communication management within your care community, providers and case managers can organize potential partners based on patients’ needs.
Open market approach gives patients more choice to determine their ideal care, case managers more visibility to available post-acute providers, and healthcare systems with transparency around performance data. Providers with low readmission rates will be rewarded with higher reimbursements and a consistent flow of referrals. Through the structure of the referral marketplace, healthcare systems can filter potential partners by proof of quality care, ensuring they’re building valuable relationships with other providers.
Alleviates capacity challenges caused by increased length of stay and hospital readmissions. Improved workflows, assignment alerts, and patient checklists adds much needed structure to the acute care transition process.
According to a recent study published in PubMed, the annual cost of readmissions to the US healthcare system is approximately $17.4 billion a year. In order to remain profitable and competitive, hospital systems should consider utilizing a digital health platform like Aidin to streamline case managers’ workflows while increasing capacity and revenue.
Aidin adds structure and transparency to daily workflows and communications, helping your organization reduce readmission rates.
Referral and authorization requests enter providers’ electronic health record system – a single, seamless, and centralized digital platform.
Our comprehensive digital platform enables document sharing, timeline creation, prompts, and efficient collaboration via fax, text, and online communication
Case managers can organize data and patient information, track processes, and pinpoint delays.
Stakeholders (including providers, health plans, and their partners) are held accountable and rewarded when working in a timeline manner.
See how Aidin has helped similar organizations reduce excess readmissions, improve efficiency, and cut costs.
What are the benefits of reducing hospital readmissions?There are several benefits that come from reducing hospital readmissions, including but not limited to:
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How do readmission rates affect in-patient revenue?Readmissions have a negative impact on revenue, due to penalties charged by CMS and other payers. [3] |
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