'Real time' case management keeps patients out of hospital.
Data drive real-time case management. UniHealth, a Los Angeles-based integrated health system, is using a new Internet-based data collection and analysis system that captures data from hospitals, pharmacies, medical groups, and other members of the health care team. A pilot project found that patients in the study group had 25% fewer hospital admissions, 8.7% fewer bed days per 1,000 patients, and 17.5% fewer urgent inpatient bed days.
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