Where EHRs fall short in post-acute discharge
Placement involves other organizations, relies on outside data that changes constantly, and needs a provider network someone has to recruit and support.
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Optimizing your EHR for Post-Acute Care Workflows
Your EHR runs the enterprise. Post-acute placement happens between organizations. Find out where the system of record ends, what it costs you, and how to evaluate what fills the gap.
- 41% of fee-for-service Medicare hospital discharges were followed by post-acute care in 2023
- 8.9 vs. 3.7 days is the inpatient length of stay for post-acute discharges compared with discharges home
- ~20% readmission rate for patients discharged to post-acute care, against 8.8% for patients sent home with self-care
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Where a patient goes next, and how quickly that placement is secured, is one of the highest-leverage workflows in the inpatient stay.
It affects capacity, readmissions, compliance, and the case management team that holds it together with phone calls and faxes.
The question “why can’t Epic just do this?” deserves a real answer. This paper gives one.
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