Patient Safety
Increasing Adherence and Reducing
Readmission Rates
Studies show that patients who adhere to their medication regimens experience better health outcomes, but adherence can be challenging for patients. Major barriers to medication adherence may include low literacy, inadequate medication knowledge, language barriers, lack of social support, and financial constraints.
MedActionPlan PRO Provides Tools That Help Drive Adherence by Overcoming Some Barriers
Low Literacy
Written and formatted for 5th grade reading level.
Limited English Proficiency
Print in the patient’s preferred language.
Complex Regimen
Simplify into day-by-day schedule.
Poor Vision
Clear, easy-to-follow formats, including large fonts.
Forgetfulness
Automatically schedule reminders in a user -friendly mobile app.
Information Overload
Simple, easy-to-understand formats.
Over/under measurement with oral suspensions is a common problem
Today I had a parent who had difficulty understanding how to fill the syringe to the correct dose volume. I used the syringe function in MedActionPlan PRO to print a syringe schedule that showed the exact fill line on a syringe, which the parent understood very quickly. MedActionPlan PRO is an excellent patient education tool that helps educate patients and reduce medication errors before they can happen. Christy Buresh, PharmD Children’s Hospital & Medical Center Omaha, NebraskaImprove Outcomes & Decrease Cost
Reduce readmissions
In a study conducted by Sharp HealthCare and Touro University California College of Pharmacy, MedActionPlan schedules became a key intervention by pharmacists, along with discharge counseling and resolving medication reconciliation problems. This study showed a 48% reduction in 30-day readmissions, and Heart Failure core measure 1 compliance rates improved from the 80th percentile to the 90th percentile.
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Shorten lengths of stay
A retrospective analysis conducted at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital (PSHMC), found that reorganizing patient education and adopting MedActionPlan as the standard medication list helped reduce lengths of stay following kidney transplants by 56%.
The reduction in lengths of stay were estimated to save $279,180 annually.
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MedActionPlan Improves the Patient Experience
What do Patients say?
32%
INCREASE
in the number of patients who selected the top box in the Medication Communication category in HCAHPS surveys.
95.6%
chose the top box for Discharge Instructions
83.7%
chose the top box for RN Communication
What Do Users Say?
98%
saw improvement in patient care and medication adherence using MedActionPlan, and most said the improvement was “significant.”
96%
saw improvement in patient understanding of their medications
69%
said MedActionPlan improved healthcare provider efficiency
Leverage MedActionPlan Applications to Meet Your Patient Safety Initiatives Across the Transition of Care
- Inpatient or outpatient
- Discharge counseling and education
- Clinical research and analytics
- Medical home
- Remote care
- Medication Therapy Management
- Medication reconciliation
Fulfill Regulatory Requirements
MedActionPlan PRO can help providers meet the requirements of healthcare standards organizations and other patient safety goals
Joint Commission Antimicrobial Stewardship Standard
- Educational requirements for patients being discharged home on antibiotics
Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals
- Maintain and communicate accurate patient medication information
- Reduce the likelihood of patient harm associated with the use of anticoagulation regimens
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and UNOS
- Transplant pharmacist must document that a medication education discharge program routinely occurs for each transplant recipient
HCAHPS Patient Experience Survey
- Communication about a child’s medications
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