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When a patient is discharged, the clock starts. 30 days—the critical amount of time where patients have a higher risk of readmission. Transitional Care Management (TCM) aims to provide patients with the proper care during this time and can reduce readmission by as much as 86%. TCM relies on a strong foundation of data for its success, but not every health system has the technical resources at their fingertips required to measure and improve TCM metrics.

As healthcare consolidation continues, Arcadia Director of Sales, Graham Barnes, and NorthShore SVP of CIN, Scott Kent, discuss the critical steps that leaders need to take to ensure a successful integration.

Value-based care and population health work hand in hand to identify patients who are at risk for complex illnesses and in need of preventative screenings. Population health case managers can use an EMR (electronic medical record) or data aggregation tool to identify who the sickest patients are and what care they need. 

Improve patient engagement and outcomes with shared decision-making. See how Beth Israel Lahey Health and BlueCross BlueShield use data-driven insight in healthcare.

Arcadia dug deeper, and what Senior Manager of Customer Insights Dan Sweany found paints a more complicated picture. Here, we’ll delve into the discoveries the Customer Insights team made as they explored 2021 MSSP data, organizing what they found by groups of ICD-10 codes. The result is a list of the most common reasons for winter emergency room visits, and a window into what conditions a value-based care organization or provider network could target for preventive care.

Diabetes is a complicated condition, but data-driven interventions can prevent comorbidities and keep patients healthy.