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	"With increasing frequency, mobile apps are aiding the effort to prevent readmissions, as well as helping hospitals steer clear of financial penalties issued under the ACA for patients who return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Providers are more receptive than ever before and increasingly are willing to test and invest significant dollar amounts into emergent technologies that are designed to keep patients out of the hospital, and there have been a plethora of new mobile applications designed to do exactly that. Mobile technology can help fix the communication breakdown at discharge by giving patients, and hospitals, a convenient medium to monitor hospital discharge instructions and double check prescriptions. Medication and treatment accuracy, a major patient safety issue, could improve as a result." -Avery S. Lefferts, PhD, Professor, The City College of New York
	"...hospitals with higher nursing levels had 41% lower odds of receiving the maximum penalty for readmissions as compared with hospitals that operated at lower staffing levels." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 4, Number 3, March 2015, "Reducing Readmissions Through An Effective Nursing Program" by Carol Jameson
	Heart Failure Readmission Rates Lower for Hospitals with Visiting Programs Mended Hearts Press Release, March 13, 2015
	Facebook Ratings Reflect Quality of Care, Readmissions in Hospitals The Economic Times, March 13, 2015
	A Pioneering Approach to Readmissions Analysis at St. Francis Hospital Healthcare Informatics, March 12, 2015
	Helena program aimed at curbing hospital readmission could go national Helena Independent Record, March 11, 2015
	Establishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act American Hospital Association, March 10, 2015
	Study Finds Hospital Readmissions After Severe Sepsis Often Preventable University of Michigan Health System News, March 10, 2015
	An Evidence-Based Approach for Planning After Hospital Discharge Annals of Family Medicine, March/April 2015
	Reducing Readmissions Through An Effective Nursing Program by Carol Jameson Readmissions and the Promise of Telemonitoring by Jonathan Samuels, MD, MPH The Community Integration Model by Chuck Bongiovanni, MSW, MBA, NCRP, CSA, CFEi Thought Leader's Corner: "What forms of technology are poised to most impact efforts to reduce preventable hospital readmissions?" Industry News with briefs regarding MEDITECH, Qualis Health, R-Conrad Consulting, CipherHealth, General Medicine P.C., MDnetSolutions, Casenet, AdvaCare, and National Patient Safety Awareness Week. Catching up with ... Jacob Weissman, MD Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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