Hospital ADT Notifications as Part of Your Organization’s Care Coordination and Quality Goals

Audacious Inquiry (now part of PointClickCare) hosted a webinar titled Mapping a Road to Success with Hospital ADT Notifications as Part of Your Organization’s Care Coordination & Quality Goals.

The featured speakers, Scott Afzal and Rob Horst, were part of Audacious Inquiry’s executive leadership and have worked with clients that run the gamut of our healthcare community and industry—from hospitals and statewide HIEs, to some of the largest integrated health systems.

From experience in the enterprise IT trenches and with dozens of teams’ technical boots on the ground with customers, we see today more than ever that providers, hospitals, accountable care organizations, health plans, and Medicaid MCOs can gain valuable and actionable near real-time information when patients are admitted or discharged from hospitals—using admission, discharge, transfer (ADT) notifications.

What are ADT Notifications?

ADT notifications serve as alerts that are sent when a patient is admitted to a hospital, transferred to another facility, or discharged from the hospital. These alerts notify a patient’s primary care physician and other members of the patient’s care team to ensure proper care coordination and follow-up, and to prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions and other avoidable gaps in the care continuum.

Webinar Recap and PointClickCare’s ADT Notifications

The presentation drew on firsthand experience in planning and implementing connected care and quality initiatives that enhance coordination capabilities, and help care coordinators and doctors manage the health of individuals and populations. It touched on observations about the value of ADT notifications gleaned over the past decade.

The event included a demonstration of the Audacious Inquiry ADT notifications platform, formerly known as Encounter Notification Service®, which is now a key part of the PointClickCare connected care platform that can easily fit into the strategic care management aims of health organizations towards reduced hospital re-admissions, better outcomes for high-risk populations, and improved patient satisfaction.

ADT notifications provide real-time alerts and clinical summaries to primary care providers, payers and other stakeholders coordinating care for patients. The technology sends hospital inpatient and ED admission, discharge, and transfer event notifications securely, between participating hospitals, and inter-state among connected HIEs. From 2013 to 2022, the Audacious Inquiry ADT notifications platform delivered over 10 million notifications, and served over 12 million subscribed patients in Florida, Utah, Delaware, and Maryland, as well as metro Philadelphia and the District of Columbia. It also powered FLHIE’s Event Notification Service, DHIN’s Encounter Notification System, UHIN’s cHIE alerts, CRISP’s Encounter Notification System, and HSX’s Encounter Notification Service.

This article was originally published by Audacious Inquiry, now a part of PointClickCare.