Predictive monitoring alerts care teams when a rehab guest or long-term resident develops risk factors for adverse health events. By identifying health risks before symptoms become noticeable, healthcare technology helps providers take action before there is a crisis rather than responding to one after the damage has already been done.
Key Takeaways: Predictive Monitoring and Healthcare
- Predictive monitoring allows care teams to take a proactive approach to help by alerting them of subtle changes before they become bigger problems.
- Predictive analytics in healthcare has been shown to reduce hospital readmissions in research studies.
- Our clinical monitoring program, RealTime, allows us to provide your loved one with the highest quality of care, even with complex needs, so you can enjoy peace of mind.
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What Is Predictive Monitoring?
How Predictive Analytics in Healthcare Can Make All the Difference
Get Back to Doing What You Love
At The Healthcare Center at Buck Creek, we provide advanced Short-Term Rehab and Long-Term Care for people with complex health needs. We use RealTime Medical Systems, a clinical monitoring program that helps our team spot potential concerns early and respond before they become bigger issues. A readmission rate is the rate at which patients must return to the hospital after leaving it for post-acute care. This is important because it can reflect how well a skilled nursing center supports recovery, manages complex conditions, and helps prevent setbacks. For families, fewer hospital readmissions can mean greater peace of mind, a smoother recovery, and fewer unexpected costs tied to additional hospital stays.
What Is Predictive Monitoring?
Predictive monitoring is a computerized system that analyzes information from millions of electronic health records. It looks for common patterns that often exist before severe health incidents happen, such as falls, cardiac events, and sepsis. It compares those patterns with your loved one’s current status, analyzing vital signs, lab test results, and history. When it finds matching patterns, it sends an alert to the care team.
Predictive analytics in healthcare isn’t a replacement for human supervision. We put resident safety and dignity above all else. Clinical analytics is simply a tool we use to do our job even better.
How Predictive Analytics in Healthcare Can Make All the Difference
Research shows that nearly one in four people admitted to Short-Term Rehab are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. For some families, these readmissions become a vicious cycle of repeated hospitalizations. If your family has experienced this cycle, you know all too well how frustrating it is to see a loved one spending more time in rehab than at home. Predictive post-acute care technology, like our Real Time predictive monitoring system, can reduce hospital readmission and shorten the time your loved one spends in rehab.
By identifying subtle patterns that point to health risks, our healthcare technology can prevent events like the following, so your loved one can escape the cycle and get back to doing what they love:
- Cardiac events
- Falls and fractures
- Sepsis
- Urinary tract infections
- Respiratory decline
Predictive Monitoring in Long-Term Care
Predictive monitoring can help your loved one maintain independence and quality of life in Long-Term Care. The care team will receive alerts as soon as subtle changes happen, such as early signs of infections, minor shifts in appetite, or changes in sleeping patterns. These alerts often mean the difference between a medication adjustment and a life-altering hospitalization. Your loved one’s care plan can be updated in real time when needs change instead of quarterly or annually.
By combining predictive healthcare technology with a personal touch, you can also have peace of mind when you trust us with your loved one’s care. You can’t be there every minute, but with the help of predictive healthcare technology, we can.
Get Back to Doing What You Love
Predictive monitoring can shorten your loved one’s stay in Short-Term Rehab, reduce the risk of admission, and help your loved one enjoy their highest achievable level of independence in Long-Term Care. At Buck Creek, our compassionate care team combines clinical analytics with loving support, so your loved one can get back to doing what they love, and so can you. Contact us today to talk to our care team.