NE HIMSS Premier Sponsored Webinar:

" AI-supported Early Mobilization of Inpatients: a new approach to centralizing the right care at home​ "  

Session Presented by Radial

 

 

Webinar date: December 10, 2024
Webinar time: 12pm EST

A growing body of medical literature supports that centralizing more of the right care at home can improve quality and reduce the cost of care. A common missed opportunity to facilitate home-based care is at the point of discharge from a hospital where some patients are discharged to skilled nursing facilities or rehabilitation facilities rather than home with skilled nursing services. Deconditioning that occurs due to poor mobilization in the hospital underlies many discharges to a facility rather than home. The concept of “Early Mobilization” involves moving patients early during their hospitalization to prevent deconditioning in order to facilitate a more rapid return of function and ideally a discharge home. 

Given limited resources, the success of early mobilization initiatives is often dependent on prioritizing patients with a particularly high risk of avoidable discharge to a facility early during a hospitalization.  

However, current approaches to timely identification of these patients are often manual and resource-intensive.  AI-based approaches hold promise in their ability to efficiently, consistently, and safely identify patients who are appropriate for home-based care modalities. These tools may help supplement existing workflow innovation including early mobilization initiatives. 

In this webinar, we will highlight an example of how MaineHealth successfully partnered with Radial to use an AI-based tool to identify more of the right candidates for early mobilization.  These patients were reviewed by discharge planning teams close to the beginning of a hospitalization and their care management and therapy teams were asked to focus on early mobilization and home discharge. 

Learning Objectives: 

1) Review the literature supporting the benefits of home-based post-acute care and the impact of early mobilization. 

2) Discuss the partnership between Radial and Maine Medical Center: 

How AI tools can identify patients appropriate for early mobilization

How workflow innovation, such as the enhanced-PT pathway at Maine Medical Center could help operationalize use of early mobilization 

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Anant Vasudevan, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Radial - Anant is the Chief Medical Officer at Radial and was part of the founding team.  He leads Radial’s clinical strategy including clinical aspects of product and business development. He is also a practicing hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Anant has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, received his MD at the Yale University School of Medicine, and trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for Internal Medicine internship and residency. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. 
 
Anant is a clinician-innovator and has been involved in clinical, translational, and basic science research for the past 15 years. His primary career interests have been in combining technology with innovative workflows to facilitate sustainable and consistent delivery of high quality, cost-effective care. He is passionate about centralizing more of the right care at home, improving care transitions, facilitating patient engagement, and helping patients and providers focus where it matters most in an increasingly complex healthcare ecosystem. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Wellins, MD, MS, FACP, Senior Medical Director Utilization Management, Maine Medical Center 

Chris is the Senior Medical Director of Utilization Management at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center and runs the Physician Advisor Program that works for the entire MaineHealth System. He has practiced General Internal Medicine for Maine Medical Partners in Cape Elizabeth since 1997. Chris graduated from Duke University with a degree in Biology with a focus on Marine Science. He received his MD at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Maine Medical Center.  During the course of his residency he also received a BS from the Dartmouth Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (now the Dartmouth Institute).  

Chris practiced in the old model of both inpatient and outpatient Internal Medicine attending on the Teaching Service of Maine Medical Center for many years before stopping in 2022. He has a background in Medication and Patient Safety.  He played an active role in the development of a 15 bed Recuperative Care Center which opened in Portland in 2022 and continues to work closely with their staff on patient selection and referral. He was the founding member of the Physician Advisor Program at Maine Medical Center in 2010.