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	"By incorporating a more comprehensive set of clinical, financial, administrative, behavioral, socioeconomic, and geographic variables, predictive analytics offer us the ability to more fully characterize individual patient risk. Far more than simply bracketing patients for work queues, predictive models allow us to understand the relative contribution of specific factors that are elevating a patient's risk. And predictive analytics grant us an opportunity to understand what specific actions (programs, services, resources, etc.) effectively influence each risk factor such that a risk management program becomes more personalized and effective. Predictive analytics can even be used to optimize the allocation of limited resources to maximize the clinical and financial impact of readmission management programs. In short, predictive analytics should provide the "learning" for learning health systems." -Jason Burke, Sr. Advisor, Innovation & Advanced Analytics, UNC School of Medicine & UNC Health Care System
	"Compared with national readmission rates from 2012, hospital readmission rates assessed using the Medicare fee-for-service program decreased by 1.1% in 2013 across all diagnosis categories totaling 150,000 fewer Medicare patient readmissions during the period between January 2012 and December 2013." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 4, Number 9, September 2015, "Readmission after Surgery: Potential Limitations and the Way Forward" by Faiz Gani, MBBS and Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD
	Financial Effect of the Readmissions Reduction Program on Safety-Net Hospitals Annals of Internal Medicine, September 15, 2015
	Readmissions May Say More About Patients Than Care Modern Healthcare, September 14, 2015
	Software Doesn't Note Differences in Care Quality Among Hospital Readmissions EurekAlert, September 14, 2015
	Efforts to Improve Quality Penalize Hospitals Serving Vulnerable Populations ScienceDaily, September 14, 2015
	Hospitals Seek Behavioral Partners to Reduce Medicare Readmissions Behavioral Healthcare, September 8, 2015
	Two New Pilot Programs Launching to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Santa Monica Daily Press, September 2, 2015
	Hospital Cuts Readmissions in Half with Help from College Students Health Leaders Media, September 1, 2015
	UCSD-Accent Home Care Partnership to Reduce Readmissions Will Prove to be Ground-breaking Partnership by Josh Luke Professional Case Managers Play Key Role In Reducing Hospital Readmissions by Patrice V. Sminkey, RN Original Research: Two Pieces of Readmissions Related Research by the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association by Barbara Brown, RN, PhD and David Vaamonde Thought Leaders' Corner: What role do predictive analytics have in reducing readmissions? Industry News with briefs regarding CipherHealth, Evergreen Health, Parker Jewish Institute For Health Care And Rehabilitation, and the Ottawa Hospital. Catching up with ... Patrice V. Sminkey Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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