Welcome to our first annual "Best Of" issue of ReadmissionsRx containing the most popular stories from 2011 from this e-newsletter:

1. Three-pronged Intervention Reduces Avoidable Rehospitalizations Among Seniors

2. Yale Study Finds Large Drop In Heart Failure Hospitalizations

3. New Chart: Who Generates Unnecessary ED Visits?

4. Facing Medicare Penalties, Hospitals Need to Improve Readmission Rates

5. Hospitals, GE-Microsoft Collaboration Target Healthcare-Acquired Conditions

6. Q&A: How Can a Case Manager Help Reduce Repeat Hospitalizations?
   (Open access until January 9.)

7. New Chart: What's the ROI from Reducing Readmissions?

8. HealthSounds Podcast: Mapping the Way to ICD-10 Readiness — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Approach

9. Aetna, COPC Collaboration Model Leads to Fewer Hospitalizations

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