November 27, 2017 MHA Today is provided as a service to members of the Missouri Hospital Association. Additional information is available online at MHAnet. In This Issue HIDI HealthStats — Hospital Super-Utilizers Closing The Looming Health Care Talent Gap
HIDI Tech Connect
Staff Contact: Mat Reidhead The November edition of HIDI HealthStats discusses hospital super-utilizer predictive risk models. During fiscal year 2016, more than 20,000 Missourians visited a hospital between 10 and 384 times. Nearly nine out of ten hospital super-utilizers were diagnosed with a chronic disease during the year and 71 percent were diagnosed with multiple chronic conditions. Super-utilizers typically have a variety of clinical, social and behavioral complexities that add extreme difficulty to interventions designed to reduce their ED utilization. Successful patient interventions have focused on pain management, mental illness and substance abuse by investing in integrated care delivery models that provide medical, social and mental health supports. Back To Top
Workforce News
Staff Contact: Jill Williams The U.S. may not be producing enough qualified doctors, nurses, specialists and health care workers to meet patients' needs, according to research from Healthforce Center at University of California, San Francisco and a recent article from the Society for Human Resource Management. Back To Top
Nearly 900 Missourians have tested positive for the flu this season, compared to about 250 cases during the same time last year. Source: Missourinet