About Dovetail Health - Dovetail Health is focused on providing care transition support, mostly for Medicare and Medicare Advantage patients, following a discharge from a hospital or skilled nursing facility. In order to help avoid preventable admissions, Dovetail has expanded on models of transitional care developed by Eric Coleman, Mary Naylor and others. Dovetail has developed a Pharmacist led program that includes in-home visits with patients and their families within 24-48 hours of discharge. Dovetail's infrastructure includes risk stratification, extensive training, perfected clinical work flows and protocols, and an internally developed Transition Management application tool. Dovetail and its partners collaborate to seamlessly integrate a care transitions program into the existing continuum of care with the goal of reducing readmission rates and ultimately the bottom line.
"To drive major improvements, performance-based payments must exceed 10% of total provider income. Incentives of this magnitude can only be mobilized if they originate in payer savings.”
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH,
Mercer Health
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Other IHA partnerships:
University of California Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) BCHT conducts research into existing and improved criteria for coverage, consumer cost-sharing, and other dimensions of management for biomedical innovations, and provides academic programs for UC Berkeley graduate students and professional development for health care organizations.
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) , a national coalition of regionally-based, multi-stakeholder health improvement callaboratives that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery.
California Center for Public Health Advocacy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organizations that raises awareness about critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to promote the establishment of effective state and local health policies.
