4 Pillars of Transitional Care

4 Pillars of Transitional Care Lowering Readmission Costs $26 $17 Billion /year Billion /year Cost of preventable readmissions for Medicare patients alone (1] Cost of readmissions for Medicare patients alone (1) Medication Comprehensive Care Coordination Management 56% 66% of preventable medication errors happen during transition in care (4] of non-federal acute care hospitals and 31% of primary care physicians do not use EHRS (2) (3] 4 Pillars of Transitional Care Improved Hands-off Post-discharge Follow-up 2x 25% Decrease in patient satisfaction when they did not receive a follow up phone call about their medications (6] Patients were twice as likely to report a problem if their primary care provider was unaware of the hospitalization (5) Patient Satisfaction Hospitals with better HCAHPS satisfaction scores are between 1.6 and 4.9 times times less likely to see 30-day readmissions for heart failure patients. 7 Sources About Vree Health TM [1] http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2013/rwjf404178 [2] http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/onodatabrief9final.pdf [3] http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/12/2805.full.html [4] http://www.qualityforum.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?Linkldentifier=id<emID=53689 [5] http://www.nobi.nim.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3186075/ [6] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11568944 The_impact_of_followup_tele phone_calls [7] http://www.nobi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21348567 Vree Health TM provides technology- enabled services designed to improve care coordination after discharge. patients_after_hospitalization/file/79e4150f5f90e1fcce.pdf vree health TransitionAdvantage Visit Us at www.vreehealth.com to learn more or download our free white paper on steps hospitals can take to reduce readmissions. © 2013 Vree Healtho LLC, a subsidiary of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. All rights reserved. US/TRA/0613/0169