Healthcare IT News September 3, 2025
The AI models, paired with standardized care pathways, can be transformative in addressing readmissions and other high-impact quality metrics – but their success hinges on thoughtful design and implementation, cardiac quality doc says.
Before 2017, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital – an urban, academic safety-net hospital within the San Francisco Health Network – struggled with some of the highest 30-day readmission rates in California’s safety-net sector.
THE CHALLENGE
The problem was not only clinical but also financial: Missing state and federal readmission reduction targets put $1.2 million annually in at-risk funding in jeopardy, funding critical for clinical care. Equally concerning were pronounced disparities in outcomes: Black/African American patients faced significantly higher readmission rates than the general patient population, underscoring both...
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