Case Study: Advocate Health Care achieves 21% reduction in heart failure readmissions with Cerner predictive analytics

Advocate Health Care lowers readmissions with predictive analytics

Advocate Health Care, a 3,500‑bed hospital system, partnered with Cerner through the Advocate Cerner Collaborative to tackle high heart‑failure readmission rates. Facing the challenge of preventing repeat hospitalizations, the health system sought a scalable, data‑driven approach to identify and intervene with patients at greatest risk.

Together they deployed predictive analytics and an algorithmic readmission‑risk model that presents clinicians with an up‑to‑date clinical picture, updated every two hours, and automatically suggests targeted education orders. By focusing resources on high‑risk patients and delivering robust, bedside education, Advocate lowered its heart‑failure readmission rate by 21% after one year (patients receiving high‑risk education saw about a 20% reduction), an outcome leaders say is roughly 15–20% better than industry norms.

Advocate Health Care

Rishi Sikka

Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations