Healthcare Finance News February 12, 2020
At HIMSS20, one physician association will show how data-driven care management, with prompt patient outreach, helped decrease ED use by 8%.
Optimizing both the quality and cost of care is top of mind for healthcare providers these days. Toward that mission, Physicians of Southwest Washington, an independent physician association based in Olympia, focused on social determinants of health to reduce emergency department utilization.
To keep delivering quality care with seamless patient experiences, the organization looked at ED utilization as an opportunity to enhance financial outcomes — and of course, to serve patients better.
By leveraging insights from the aggregated ADT feeds, PSW could identify gaps and access issues across their network, and track the ED utilization times across the network...
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