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Health Systems Share COVID-19 Financial
Recovery Strategies in First Client Huddle

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Health Catalyst® Virtual Client Huddles
On May 6, 2020, more than 100
attendees from 46 healthcare
organizations joined the first of a
series of Health Catalyst®
virtual client huddles designed
to support client partners and
aid collaboration and direct
client connections in this time of
unprecedented change.

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Health Catalyst® Virtual Client Huddles
According to an April 2020 survey of
Health Catalyst clients, 72 percent
showed interest in attending a regular
client forum and 72.6 percent said they
had a strong interest in examples,
guidance, and tools from both other
health systems and Health Catalyst.

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Health Catalyst® Virtual Client Huddles
Mike Doyle, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Professional
Services, and Russ Staheli, Chief Client Officer at Health Catalyst, facilitated
the session sharing initial high-level observations about COVID-19 analytics
projects at client organizations, including the most common:
Patient and Staff
Tracking
Executive Dashboard/
Command Center
Capacity Planning
Public Health and
Surveillance
Financial

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Health Catalyst® Virtual Client Huddles
While most clients who responded to the
survey shared that they had many of the
tools and services needed to handle
these challenges, many expressed a
keen interest to focus on recovery efforts,
including elective surgery operations and
recovery planning, revenue cycle
management, and incorporating
telemedicine into planning data.

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In fact, 82 percent of respondents
said that learning about what others
are doing to aid their COVID-19
financial recovery would provide the
most helpful support (figure 1).

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What COVID-198 topic categories will provide the
most helpful support to your organization?
Figure 1: A survey of Health Catalyst clients showed that the majority are most
interested in learning about what others are doing in the recovery phase of
COVID-19.

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One Health System’s Elective Surgery Financial Plan
Following the introductions, two
presenters from the surgical and
procedures department of a top
health system shared how they are
using analytics to restart elective
surgeries and their elective surgery
financial plan.
Like many healthcare organizations,
the health system suspended
elective surgeries in late March
following an executive order from the
state’s governor.

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One Health System’s Elective Surgery Financial Plan
The health system pivoted to prepare for a
surge of COVID-19 patients and away from
elective procedures, but quickly realized they
must understand the revenue impacts and
create a plan to deal with the surgery backlog.
While they had a tremendous amount of
data, much of it resided in the EMR and
was difficult to access.
They lacked an easy way to create an
integrated view of clinical, financial, and
operational data necessary to effectively
plan the organization’s elective surgery
financial recovery.

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One Health System’s Elective Surgery Financial Plan
Clinical leaders partnered with
Health Catalyst to leverage the
Data Operating System (DOS™)
to integrate clinical, financial, and
operational data.
They also used the Department
Explorer: Surgical Services
analytics accelerator and a COVID-
19 Elective Surgery Impact Analysis
application to visualize the impact
of canceled surgeries on revenue
and develop the organization’s
recovery plan.

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The Right Tools Aid COVID-19 Financial Recovery
Leveraging the right tools gave leaders the
ability to quickly and effectively understand
canceled cases, surgery backlog, and the
revenue impact by facility and surgery type.
In just two weeks, the team deployed the
COVID-19 Elective Surgery Impact Analysis
application and created a data-driven
recovery plan based on comprehensive
clinical, financial, and operational data.
They also saved hundreds of hours of
manual data aggregation and reporting.

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The Right Tools Aid COVID-19 Financial Recovery
Following the presentation,
participants had the opportunity
to ask questions and share
feedback, including the agreed to
request to share the dashboard
(using de-identified patient data)
with attendees.

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The Right Tools Aid COVID-19 Financial Recovery
The next client huddle will take place on
Thursday, May 21, at 9 am EDT and will
continue on a biweekly basis to help
support Health Catalyst partners
and encourage continued
collaboration.

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