Home Health Care News November 28, 2023
Home health providers should be incorporating audio-recorded patient-nurse communication into their patient risk identification models, according to a recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
The study’s research team — working alongside VNS Health nurses — recorded 126 patient nurse interactions with 47 patients.
Overall, home health care serves more than 6 million patients in the U.S., and a good chunk of those patients end up back in the hospital.
And the majority of patient risk identification models, which are mostly based on electronic health record data, don’t incorporate audio-recorded patient-nurse verbal communication.
In their current form, these models are only seeing modest success when it comes to detecting patients at risk for ED visits or...
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