Case Study: Inspira Health Network achieves 78% automation of manual discharge lists, saves 50 staff hours/week and $1.3M with Cerner HealtheCareSM

Inspira Health Network saves time and money by implementing HealtheCare

Inspira Health Network was spending dozens of hours each week—about 50 staff hours—manually scouring the EHR and health information exchanges to compile lists of recently discharged patients for transitional care management (TCM) outreach. That time-consuming process slowed nurses and care managers and limited the number of patients the system could reach.

By implementing Cerner’s HealtheCareSM, Inspira automated 78% of the manual list-creation process so nurses could begin outreach immediately; staff time savings were estimated at roughly 50 hours per week. Post-implementation readmission rates fell among patients receiving TCM, with an estimated $1.3 million in annual cost avoidance, and the freed capacity is enabling Inspira to add new algorithms and expand outreach to more community patients and partner organizations.

Inspira Health Network

April Venable

Director of Population Health