How Reporting Hospital Admissions Works

Hospital Admissions Reporting is a proactive health monitoring service that helps you track your hospital visits and stays while contributing to wider medical research. Every three months, NowPatient will prompt you to report any hospital admissions you may have experienced. This regular check-in creates a comprehensive record of your healthcare utilization, helping you understand patterns in your health and communicate more effectively with your healthcare providers.

The reporting process is designed to be quick and straightforward. You’ll be asked about when you were admitted, the reason for your admission, how long you stayed, and the outcome of your visit. This information is securely stored in your personal health record and can be reviewed at any time.

Your contributions support healthcare planning, medical research, and health system improvements, while also providing you with personalized insights into your health journey over time.

Hospital Admissions Reporting benefits both you and the wider healthcare community by creating a comprehensive understanding of healthcare needs and outcomes:

For you:

Track your health patterns and trends over time

Keep a detailed record of when and why you’ve needed hospital care. This creates a comprehensive health timeline that helps you and your healthcare providers identify patterns, risk factors, and opportunities for preventive care.

Keep a complete record of hospital admissions for your medical history

Build a thorough personal health record that documents your complete hospital care history. This becomes invaluable when seeing new doctors, managing chronic conditions, or coordinating care across multiple providers.

Monitor your healthcare journey and hospital visits

By reporting regularly every three months, you can track whether your health is improving, stable, or requires additional attention. You might notice seasonal patterns, identify triggers for health issues, or see the positive effects of lifestyle changes or treatments.

Receive personalized insights based on your reports

Get customized feedback about your hospital admission patterns, including recommendations for preventive care, early warning signs to watch for, and strategies to help you stay healthier and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations.

Better communicate health changes with your healthcare providers

Armed with accurate hospital admission records, you can have more productive conversations with your healthcare providers. You’ll have precise dates, diagnoses, and outcomes readily available, making it easier to discuss your health history and make informed decisions about your care.

Identify opportunities for prevention and early intervention

Understanding your hospital admission patterns helps you work with your healthcare team to implement preventive strategies. If you’re being admitted frequently for a particular condition, your providers can adjust your treatment plan to help you stay healthier at home.

Coordinate care more effectively

A complete hospital admission record helps all your healthcare providers stay informed about your health status, reducing the risk of conflicting treatments or missed information during transitions of care.

For healthcare:

Supports healthcare planning and resource allocation

Your reports help healthcare systems understand patient needs, plan staffing levels, allocate resources effectively, and ensure that hospitals are prepared to meet community health demands.

Contributes to medical research and evidence-based healthcare

Real-world data from patients like you helps researchers understand disease progression, treatment effectiveness, and factors that lead to hospitalization. This leads to better prevention strategies and more effective interventions.

Helps identify patterns in hospital admission trends

Aggregated data can reveal seasonal patterns, emerging health threats, gaps in outpatient care, and populations at high risk for hospitalization, enabling healthcare systems to implement targeted interventions.

Improves understanding of healthcare utilization

By analyzing why patients need hospital care, healthcare systems can develop better outpatient services, improve chronic disease management programs, and create interventions that help patients stay healthy at home.

Enhances healthcare services for all patients

The insights gained from hospital admissions reporting lead to better care coordination, improved discharge planning, more effective preventive care programs, and reduced unnecessary hospitalizations for everyone.

Identifies health disparities and access issues

Admission data helps healthcare systems identify communities or populations with inadequate access to preventive care or outpatient services, enabling targeted improvements in healthcare equity.

NowPatient will send you a reminder every three months to report any hospital admissions you’ve experienced. However, you can report hospital admissions at any time, especially if you want to document an important health event while the details are fresh in your memory.

Report any hospital admission, including:

• Emergency department visits that led to admission
• Planned or scheduled hospital admissions
• Surgical procedures requiring hospital stay
• Observation stays
• Intensive care unit admissions
• Transfers between hospitals

For each admission, you’ll be asked to provide:

• Date of admission and discharge
• Reason for admission (diagnosis or symptoms)
• Name of hospital or healthcare facility
• Length of stay
• Any procedures or surgeries performed
• Outcome (fully recovered, ongoing treatment, etc.)