Healthcare Innovation November 14, 2019
An initiative starting in Texas by the St. Louis-based Ascension Health, called Ascension Connect, is connecting home-based patients to highly interventional telehealth-based chronic care management
A patient’s healthcare experience is usually made up of many individual, isolated encounters with different providers. While there may be some effort to share data among providers, it is still mostly passive; the data is simply incorporated into the electronic health record (EHR), where it may or may not be reviewed or considered.
At the St. Louis-based Ascension Health, operational leaders have dramatically reduced readmission rates for chronic conditions with centralized approach and help from the Plano, Texas-based Vivify Health. Ascension Health, the largest nonprofit health system in the U.S....