NJHA and the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey are offering members a new tool to help confront the state’s opioid epidemic. A webinar May 15, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., will discuss Collective Medical Technologies’ PreManage ED system, a collaborative care management tool designed to help clinicians provide appropriate care for high-risk patients.
PreManage ED, also known as EDie, designed to simplify and streamline access to patient information in the ED. The system integrates with existing clinical workflows and data sources, so the actionable patient insights are pushed to ED providers when a high-risk patient presents. By creating an alert, or nudge, for providers based on a large network of data, ED physicians can identify patients at risk for readmissions, patients who are flagged for opioid use issues and patients who can be redirected to avoid an unnecessary ED admission in the first place.
NJHA and HRET recently finalized an agreement to have HRET fund the first-year costs for members to bring EDie to their emergency departments, without impacting member dues or the budget, by dedicating a portion of HRET’s excess reserves to a public good.
Collective Medical Technologies has sold this product to state associations and hospitals across the country, including in Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and New Hampshire. NJHA staff, along with members of the New Jersey Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians, saw the tool in action in site visits to some hospitals already using it. NJHA’s IT team also has reviewed the technical aspects of connectivity and integrating EDie with information from the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring program.
In Washington, Collective’s first state-wide initiative, a Brookings Institution review of Medicaid patients who visited emergency rooms found that together with the Collective network and EDie product, the state saved $34 million in emergency department costs and ED visits declined 9.9 percent in its first year of use in 2013. Likewise, care teams across the state have reduced opioid prescriptions coming out of the ED by 24 percent since the program’s inception.
Learn more about this opportunity to access the EDie system and how it can help New Jersey’s care community confront the opioid issue by registering today for the May 15 webinar.