Post-surgical follow-up care in Orthopedic surgeries is critical in ensuring speedy recovery, reduced readmissions, and overall improvement in health outcomes. To maximize outcomes, healthcare organizations can consider adopting the best practices and proven strategies that can deliver true value to the post-operative care management program.

Post-surgical care is essential for any patient recovering from an orthopedic surgery. Patients who undergo a hip joint replacement or a knee joint replacement would have a series of treatments and follow-up procedures post their surgery. And the treatment methods largely vary with individuals and their health conditions.

From a hospital’s perspective, there are two major factors they need to focus on— optimizing the recovery process and maximizing outcomes, while reducing readmissions in a value-based care landscape.

Orthopedic healthcare organizations face immense challenges with engaging patients in the follow-up care and treatments post their orthopedic surgeries ranging from hip and knee replacement surgeries, shoulder replacement surgeries, ankle repair, spinal surgeries, knee arthroscopy, shoulder arthroscopy, joint fusion among the others.

These Patient engagement systems provide intuitive solutions to Hospital No Shows and Missed Appointments by seamlessly managing patient communications, notifications, and interactions through automated appointment reminders like secure messaging, chatbots, phone calls and emails automatically triggered at appropriate times.

Orthopedic patient engagement solutions for hospitals and Practices are designed with unique and customized features that help mitigate these challenges, streamline operations and ultimately improve health outcomes, while reducing hospital readmissions.

From appointment reminder solutions, auto-refill appointments, secure patient communication, post-care messaging, patient scheduling and care team workflows to health screenings, Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO), Patient Generated Health Data, telehealth solutions, remote patient monitoring, and reports—orthopedic patient engagement software solutions automate the care coordination process throughout the episodes of care.

Personalized and guided care pathway programs help patients proactively participate in their post-operative care journeys. This allows Physicians and care coordinators in seamless remote patient monitoring that supports frictionless care coordination, timely intervention, and positive patient outcomes.

Patient Education on Post-operative Care

Most-often patients are oblivious to the consequences of ignoring post-surgical care of an orthopedic surgery. As a result, hospitals face increased rate of readmissions, poor health outcomes, lower Patient Satisfaction Index (PSI), and Consumer Lifetime Value (CLV)

Orthopedic hospitals and Physicians can consider taking proactive measures to reinforce post-surgical care management programs to patients. Care pathway management software solutions for orthopedic hospitals are equipped with automated solutions that can be customized and personalized to deliver valuable and relevant content to patients. These patient information materials can be sent in creative audio, video, infographic, survey and gaming formats to foster engagement among patients and other stakeholders involved in the care journey.

Healthcare organization can also leverage the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and other next-gen technologies to deliver personalized patient education materials at the ideal time through their preferred mode of engagement be it email, mobile or social media. Furthermore, it is essential that adequate patient education is provided at the time of discharge in addition to supporting content.

RippleCare: The Complete Patient Management Software for Orthopedic Care

RippleCare is a comprehensive care pathway management software that features holistic solutions including appointment reminders, care plan instructions, patient education, remote patient monitoring, telehealth consulting, patient satisfaction surveys and forms, amongst many other customizable features. The intuitive dashboards and reports enable meaningful patient-physician interactions, while ensuring collaborative, continuous and cohesive care.

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