This spring, Nashville-based healthcare technology company Medalogix released a new case study demonstrating how end-of-life analytics and workflow solution “Bridge” can help home care providers increase patient days in hospice. The study, titled “Leveraging Analytics and Workflows to Improve Hospice Care,” details Medalogix’s work with Texas home health company Jordan Health Services, streamlining its home health to hospice bridging process, and thereby increasing patients’ days in hospice by 300 percent.
“Studies show that early admission to hospice is a key factor associated with excellent end-of-life care,” said Dan Hogan, CEO of Medalogix. “Bridge identifies patients that have a high probability of dying within the next 90 days so providers can have appropriate conversations about the patient’s status, and they can provide options to the patient and family with complete information.”
Medalogix’s Bridge technology assessed 100 percent of Jordan’s patient census every day, identifying patients at risk of death within 90 days, and supplied clinicians with a prioritized list of patients for review for clinical eligibility. Additionally, Bridge conveniently integrated centralized EMR documentation for reference. The coupling of data-driven insights and easy access to records substantially decreased the amount of time spent in the clinical review process and allowed providers to attend to patients in need more quickly.
Prior to using Bridge, Jordan Health Services’ home health to hospice solution was manual and time intensive. In September 2014, Jordan implemented Medalogix Bridge technology in three of its 11 branches. By February 2015, Jordan had incorporated the analytics solution across all of their branches.