Name
Reducing Readmissions: How Cleveland Clinic Created Value with the EMR and Heart Failure Check List
Date & Time
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Speakers
Description
Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit multispecialty academic medical center, and 2017 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Recipient leveraged information and technology to more effectively identify at-risk patients and predict the need for care interventions to reduce patient mortality and unnecessary re-admissions.
Join executive leaders from Cleveland Clinic to learn how 1,500 patients were being monitored and processed through the organization’s heart failure checklist. Cleveland Clinic had an enterprise target of achieving a readmission rate of 20% compared to the typical range of 25%. With the electronic checklist, they were able to meet that target and The Electronic Checklist compliance was much higher versus paper.