Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions

This article looks at some technical solutions. Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon, an AI and digital health platform, says discharge planning doesn’t require “massive amounts of technology” or “rocket science”; just good planning from the beginning of the stay. Indeed, one research study (suggested to me by Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of HealthTap) achieved a significant time saving through low-tech measures such as checklists. Other respondents, however, reported that their solutions were making a difference in discharges. Weaknesses of Current Technology With modern databases, it’s ridiculous for many care managers to be checking the availability and services of nursing facilities manually. They should be able to draw up a list of suitable facilities quickly and transfer data from the patient’s electronic record to a corresponding record at the chosen facility. And why can’t patients and caregivers have instant access to pictures, CMS ratings, and other information about the facility they’re considering? Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund, a venture capital firm focused on investments in advancing healthcare tech, points out that the data with which many doctors work on a daily basis is still in Excel spreadsheets. Coding, she says, can take hours. AI can automate much of coding and billing. However, automated solutions don’t need AI to help clinicians enter da...
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