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Reducing Readmissionswith BI and Analytics
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Agenda
● Hospital Readmissions: Slides 4 - 7─ Michele Russell, CEO, Russell Consulting Group
● A Care Transition System (CTS) to Reduce Hospital Readmissions: Slides 8 – 10─ Ed Kirchmier, VP Global Delivery, AAJ Technologies
● Dashboards to Forecast Healthcare Outcomes: Slides 11 - 12─ Kevin Oppenheimer, Principal/Owner KGO Consulting Group
● Data Analytics to Predict When a Patient Will Readmit: Slides 13 - 18─ Andrew Satz, Co-Founder, Data Scientist and Futurist, Metrix Labs
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Hospital ReadmissionsMichele Russell, CEO, Russell Consulting Group
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Hospital Readmissions Overview
Under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), CMS withholds up to 3 percent
of regular reimbursements for hospitals if they have a higher-than-expected number of
readmissions within 30 days of discharge for seven conditions:
● Chronic lung disease
● Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
● Heart attacks
● Heart failure
● Acute myocardial infarction
● Hip and knee replacements
● Pneumonia
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Hospital Readmissions Overview
● About 80 percent of the 3,241 hospitals evaluated by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) this year will face penalties
● Medicare under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) will reduce
reimbursement for 2,573 hospitals for fiscal year (FY) 2018
● An analysis of the data also showed CMS under HRRP will withhold $564 million in
payments over the next year
Source: Kaiser Health News
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HIPAA Privacy & Security / Risk Mitigation
In addition to creating a culture that focuses on the security and privacy of
Protected Health Information (PHI), our technology plays a significant role in
preventing data breaches.
● Tracking and audit trails
● Physical security of the data
● Limited user access to data
● Role-based security
● Protection of sensitive subsets of PHI
● Ongoing control of user access regardless of the hosting environment
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Where does / will your data live?
The three major types of cloud storage used in enterprise deployments are:
● Public
● Private
● Hybrid Cloud
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A Care Transition System (CTS) to
Reduce Hospital Readmissions
Ed Kirchmier, VP Global Delivery, AAJ Technologies
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Care Transition Problem
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Pre-Discharge
Discharge
EMR/ADT (Hospital)
Order Management(Home/Community
Providers)
Rx Dispensing(Pharmacy)
Practice Mgmt Sys(PCP/Specialists)
HospitalVisit
SNF
Mental Health
HomeALF
Insufficient Educationand
Lack of CoordinationLeads to Readmission
Patient
Discharge Instructions
● PCP/Specialist Follow-up
● Rx Scripts
● Nutrition Guidelines
● Wound Care
● PT Orders
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Care Transition Platform
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Care Coordination & Coaching
Pre-Discharge DischargePost-
DischargeFollow-Up
Medication Management
Nutrition Management
PCP/Specialist Follow-up
Red Flags / Signs & Symptoms
Home & Community Services
Personal Health Record
EMR/ADT (Hospital)
• Case• Visits/Assessment• Care Plan• Appointments• Orders
• Workflows• Reminders• Notifications• Alerts
Order Management(Home/Community
Providers)Rx Dispensing
(Pharmacy)
Practice Mgmt Sys(PCP/Specialists)
Goal: Reduce Re-admissions
HOSPITAL VISIT HOME/FACILITY VISIT VISIT(S)/CALLS
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Dashboards to Forecast Healthcare
Outcomes
Kevin Oppenheimer, Principal/Owner KGO Consulting Group
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Dashboard 30 Day CMS Readmissions
Report
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Data Analytics to Predict When a
Patient Will Readmit
Andrew Satz, Co-Founder, Data Scientist and Futurist, Metrix Labs
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Causation versus Correlation
A patient is hospitalized for pneumonia with a history of chronic COPD. The
patient is readmitted within thirty days.
● Only 7.4% of patients readmitted had pneumonia. 92.6% of those readmissions
were caused by comorbidities rather than the pneumonia
● While a prior pneumonia case is highly correlated to readmission, it’s not
necessarily the cause
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Data Dimensionality
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Sex Weight Ethnic City BP Smoker COPD Pneumonia Heart Disease GI
F 142 H M 130/80 Y 2 4 3
M 178 A F 170/90 N 5 1
F 203 C M 130/90 N 1 3 2
M 187 A P 170/90 Y 3 2
F 162 A P 170/90 Y 3 4 1
F 120 H M 80/50 N 4 2
M 263 A F 80/50 Y 2 5 2 4
M 207 C P 130/80 N 5 4 3
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Reducing Data Dimensionality:
Feature Importance
If we want to identify these additional factors for readmission, we need to
evaluate ‘feature importance’. This lets us find causal and correlated features
associated with the outcome. Then we can build an algorithm off of those
features, which can be used to classify patients and predict readmission
As a result, we can identify those patients most likely to be readmitted and
why. This would enable caregivers to deliver focused interventions to
vulnerable patients
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Using A.I. to Avoid Readmissions
The effort:
A health system aggregated and integrated their clinical, financial, administrative,
patient experience, and other relevant data
Important features were algorithmically selected based upon their statistical
importance. Features included: Medicare severity diagnosis related group (MS-
DRG), use of tobacco, residential zip code, financial risk, healthcare utilization, age,
marital status, admission source, medication, provider, and more
More than two dozen machine learning models were built to predict readmission
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Using A.I. to Avoid Readmissions
The Results:
The team’s hypothesis was that patients on a larger number of medications
would be at the greatest risk for readmission
But the data revealed that patients with no medications were at the greatest risk
The data showed similar patterns regarding age. While the team assumed older
patients are at the highest risk, the data showed that its younger patients were
at greatest risk
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