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	"Remote patient monitoring is able to be deployed and scaled rapidly, markedly improving the transition to home for the millions of patients who are discharged on a yearly basis from the nation's hospitals and the 133 million Americans — nearly 1 in 2 adults — who have at least one chronic disease. Remote patient monitoring that continually captures and analyzes real-time data and incorporates "alert" algorithms can identify patients who are at risk of developing significant, but often preventable, problems that lead to emergency department visits and and/or hospitalizations, as well as a decline in patients' quality of life. Remote patient monitoring that incorporates dynamic exception management by identifying and prioritizing high-risk patients based on readings that are significantly outside the normal range and/or troubling trends allows a small number of clinicians to keep a watchful eye on a large cohort of patients and to intervene to prevent or mitigate problems in a timely manner." -Leslie Jensen, PhD, Professor of Healthcare Operations Management
	"The [Medicare Quality Improvement Collaboration] project was successful, reducing the average rehospitalization rate by 5.7 percent per 1,000 Medicare FFS beneficiaries and saving an average annual cost of $1 million per site." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 5, Number 1, January 2016, "Community Collaboration: The Catalyst for Readmission Reduction by Howard Pitluk, MD, MPH, FACS; Mary Ellen Dalton, PhD, MBA, RN; Joseph Marc A. de Veyra, MSN, RN, PHN, PCCN, CNLA
	CU Researchers Study Hospital Rreadmissions From Post-Acute Care Facilities EurekAlert, January 15, 2016
	Too Soon to Tell Whether Transitional Care Can Cut Readmissions FierceHealthcare, January 15, 2016
	Improving Nutrition to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Besler Consulting, January 7, 2016
	Discharge Summaries: Key to Improving Communication, Reducing Readmissions Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality, January 6, 2016
	Quality Metrics and Readmissions Executive Insight, January 4, 2016
	House-Call Paramedics Work to Cut Hospital Readmissions in Pilot Project KPCC, January 1, 2016
	Understanding Medicare Hospital Readmission Rates And Penalties Health Affairs, January 2016 (Abstract Only)
	Community Collaboration: The Catalyst for Readmission Reduction by Howard Pitluk, MD, MPH, FACS; Mary Ellen Dalton, PhD, MBA, RN; Joseph Marc A. de Veyra, MSN, RN, PHN, PCCN, CNLA Readmissions Editorial by Ettore Palazzo, MD, Director of the Readmissions Reduction Program at EvergreenHealth: A Response to The Wall Street Journal A Roadmap Preventing Readmissions in the Emergency Department by Josh Luke Thought Leaders' Corner: What impact can Remote Patient Monitoring have on reducing preventable readmissions? Industry News with briefs regarding SyTrue and HighFive, CareCentrix and athenahealth, Proxsys Rx, TeleHealth Services and UbiCare, Sound Physicians, mPulse Mobile, Patient Home Monitoring, UPMC and Health Catalyst, and Ontario. Catching up with ... oward Pitluk and Joseph de Veyra Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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