Health Care Innovations Exchange: Alternative Care Settings To Reduce Hospital Use

Health Care Innovations Exchange: Alternative Care Settings To Reduce Hospital Use

Health Care Innovations Exchange: Alternative Care Settings To Reduce Hospital Use

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 03/13/2013 03:14 PM EDT

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New Issue Focuses on Alternative Care Settings To Reduce Hospital Use The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the March 13 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov). The featured Innovations describe one program that decreased emergency department visits and two programs that reduced hospital inpatient utilization by providing health care services to specific patient populations in various outpatient settings. The featured QualityTools include two patient assessment tools that supplement the featured innovations, as well as resources from a State campaign that aims to reduce emergency department use and redirect care to the most appropriate setting. Read more innovation profiles about care delivery in outpatient settings to reduce hospital utilization (http://go.usa.gov/2Zdd) on the Innovations Exchange Web site, which contains more than 750 searchable innovations and 1,500 QualityTools. Spotlight: New PerspectiveChronic Disease Management Can Reduce Readmissions: A Conversation With Jack Meyer, PhD, Managing Principal, Health Management Associates (http://go.usa.gov/29mA). Events and Podcasts: New Podcast Features InnovationA new AHRQ Healthcare 411 podcast (http://go.usa.gov/2ZwY) highlights a health care innovation called Body and Soul that seeks to improve the health of African American church congregants by encouraging them to eat more fruits and vegetables. Read the related profile at http://go.usa.gov/2Zf5. April 9 Web Event Join the Innovations Exchange on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, from 1 to 2 pm EST for a free Web event titled Promoting the Spread of Health Care Innovations. For more information about this event and to register, visit the Event page: http://go.usa.gov/2ZfV. Use the My Innovations feature http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/accounts/createAccount.aspx to save your favorite subjects and receive e-mail alerts when new content is published within your areas of interest. New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov with any questions or comments. Follow the Innovations Exchange (AHRQIX) on Twitter with this hyperlink: http://www.twitter.com/ahrqix.