December 7, 2007 - Studer Group today said its Discharge Call Manager software solution (DCM) has been purchased by 100 hospitals around the country to help improve clinical outcomes and bottom-line results by ensuring staff follows up with patients after discharge and gets quantifiable answers to specific questions.

DCM is a Web-based application that automates the framework of post-discharge calls by auto-populating patient lists, showing customized questions by area and automating results for tracking.

Prior to developing DCM, Studer Group founder Quint Studer examined evidence demonstrating that, among other things, hardwiring discharge calling into the culture of a hospital or healthcare practice reduced readmissions to the hospital within 72 hours, reduced emergency department returns within 24 hours, and dramatically increased patient satisfaction with the hospital experience.

But Studer also found that most healthcare groups were inconsistent in making discharge calls, tracking the information from the calls and generating reports to share information from the calls. The software, DCM, was designed to solve these problems. McCrory oversees installation of the software at hospital sites, helps the hospitals determine which questions to ask and track, and aids the hospitals in aggregating outcomes based on the use of DCM.

DCM works by linking to a hospital's electronic medical records and auto-populating fields so hospital staff can be alerted which patients to follow up with on which day and which questions to ask that patient.

Outcomes from the Studer Group DCM follow-up interviews showed an increased efficiency of the data input process for information from discharge calls rose from zero before implementation of DCM to 71 percent after. The company also claims efficiency of patient call-list generation (targeting which patients to call and when) rose from 5 percent before DCM to 64 percent after.

For more information: www.studergroup.com


Related Content

News | Radiology Business

July 25, 2024 — Immunis, Inc., a clinical-stage biotech developing groundbreaking secretome therapeutics for age and ...

Time July 25, 2024
arrow
News | RSNA

July 23, 2024 — Professional registration is open for RSNA 2024, the world’s largest radiology forum. This year’s theme ...

Time July 23, 2024
arrow
News | Artificial Intelligence

July 23, 2024 — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

Time July 23, 2024
arrow
News | Artificial Intelligence

July 17, 2024 — Hyperfine, a groundbreaking medical device company that has redefined brain imaging with the world’s ...

Time July 17, 2024
arrow
News | Prostate Cancer

July 11, 2024 — GE HealthCare’s MIM Software, a global provider of medical imaging analysis and artificial intelligence ...

Time July 11, 2024
arrow
News | Prostate Cancer

July 2, 2024 — A new editorial paper was published in Oncoscience (Volume 11) on May 20, 2024, entitled, “Deep learning ...

Time July 02, 2024
arrow
News | Clinical Trials

June 27, 2024 — Prenuvo, which makes whole-body MRI screening for early cancer detection and other diseases, has ...

Time June 27, 2024
arrow
News | Pediatric Imaging

June 25, 2024 — Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, one of the nation’s top pediatric health care systems, today ...

Time June 25, 2024
arrow
News | MRI Breast

June 12, 2024 — Royal Philips recently announced the 1,111th installation of its revolutionary BlueSeal 1.5T magnet ...

Time June 12, 2024
arrow
News | Radiology Business

May 29, 2024 — Strategic Radiology added a third California member to the nation’s leading coalition of independent ...

Time May 29, 2024
arrow
Subscribe Now