This year, a staggering 77 percent of hospitals will receive some percentage of penalty to their 2016 funding under Medicare’s Readmissions Reduction Program. For these hospitals, the struggle to understand and quickly intervene to prevent readmissions remains a difficult burden for an often overtaxed staff. (Read the entire article)
Hospitals everywhere are looking for ways to quickly identify at-risk inpatients while there is time to intervene and help reduce readmission rates. Medisolv’s RAPID software analyzes EHR data and easily identifies high-risk patients, allowing for timely intervention. RAPID offers fully automated, daily risk score reporting as a built-in analytics tool, providing hospital administrators, clinicians, and case managers with near real-time information to help decrease readmission rates and improve patient safety.