{"id":2001,"date":"2018-08-18T01:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:59:48","slug":"5-reasons-why-communication-breaks-down-during-care-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons why communication breaks down during care transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Economics\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/authors\/brad-brooks\">Brad Brooks<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <span class=\"date-display-single\">Aug 16, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body field\">\n<p>Office-based primary care physicians (PCPs) often bear the brunt of responsibility for ensuring their patients avoid readmission after transitioning from a hospital or post-acute care facility. In many cases, however, preventable readmissions are a result of communication breakdowns between the hospital and the physicians in the community.<\/p>\n<section class=\"block block-dfp block-dfp-sky-1-160-600\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-sky_1_160_600-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>With so many hospitals and health systems still relying on faxes and phone calls to convey discharge information, it\u2019s a wonder why breakdowns don\u2019t happen more often. As a result, many hospitals and health systems are implementing integrated, mobile clinical communication platforms that allow office-based physicians to use secure smartphone-based apps to collaborate and share data in real time.<\/p>\n<p>The following are five common reasons communication breaks down during care transitions and how clinical communication platforms can help solve these issues.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/technology\/5-reasons-why-communication-breaks-down-during-care-transitions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Economics\u00a0 |\u00a0 Brad Brooks\u00a0 |\u00a0 Aug 16, 2018 Office-based primary care physicians (PCPs) often bear the brunt of responsibility for ensuring their patients avoid readmission after transitioning from a <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2001\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[764,750],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-care-transitions","tag-healthcare-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}