From Insights to Interventions: How health care transformation can be driven from the unique vantage point of the emergency departments.
By Randy Pilgrim, MD, FACEP, FAAFP
Our nation’s Emergency Departments have a unique vantage point driven by high-touch interfaces with community and hospital resources, and frequent access to a high volume of key patient populations.
This white paper explains how this vantage point yields crucial insights into much-needed changes in health care, and issues a call for health care transformation.
You will learn:
- What an analysis of more than a million patient encounters reveals about the post-discharge “Care Gap”
- How this data reveals substantial opportunities to leverage the emergency department’s unique role in the health care system
- Specific suggestions that improve outcomes and patient satisfaction, while increasing health care value for key populations
