Analytics Reduce Hospital Readmissions by 22 Percent

Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA), is using IBM business analytics software to gain greater insight into hospital readmissions, help identify causes of readmission, and design interventions to prevent patients from having to return to the hospital soon after their discharge. In their work, the group’s 30 physicians compare patients who did not require re-admission to those who did. The analytics helped the doctors identify trends, and assess treatment protocols to support the creation of a more comprehensive post-hospital treatment care programs. This video discusses this effort and recaps its results, which in the first six months cut the number of patient hospital readmissions by twenty-two percent.