6 Real World Use Cases for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Healthcare | C...CiGen
RPA use cases in healthcare offer valuable insight into why it’s worth passing on some repetitive tasks, like entering patients’ blood test results into specific files and then consistently updating those files, to software robots.
Provides an overview of the current revenue cycle management and its processes and offers a point-of-view on today’s RCM trends and areas of transformation.
Mastering Descriptive Analytics to Empower the Revenue Team to SucceedApttus
Descriptive analytics are essential for keeping on top of your business and understanding how to continuously improve your Quote-to-Cash processes. Learn how to master the competency of capturing insights from data to strengthen line-of-sight and decision making to drive profitable revenue growth.
More than 60% of providers struggle to derive optimal value from their EHRs and 85% believe consumer self-pay will continue to impact their organizations, according to an annual HFMA/Navigant survey of 108 provider CFOs and revenue cycle executives.
Preparing for today's challenges. Presentation includes key components and industry trends, organizational success factors, key performance indicators, and a client case study.
6 Real World Use Cases for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Healthcare | C...CiGen
RPA use cases in healthcare offer valuable insight into why it’s worth passing on some repetitive tasks, like entering patients’ blood test results into specific files and then consistently updating those files, to software robots.
Provides an overview of the current revenue cycle management and its processes and offers a point-of-view on today’s RCM trends and areas of transformation.
Mastering Descriptive Analytics to Empower the Revenue Team to SucceedApttus
Descriptive analytics are essential for keeping on top of your business and understanding how to continuously improve your Quote-to-Cash processes. Learn how to master the competency of capturing insights from data to strengthen line-of-sight and decision making to drive profitable revenue growth.
More than 60% of providers struggle to derive optimal value from their EHRs and 85% believe consumer self-pay will continue to impact their organizations, according to an annual HFMA/Navigant survey of 108 provider CFOs and revenue cycle executives.
Preparing for today's challenges. Presentation includes key components and industry trends, organizational success factors, key performance indicators, and a client case study.
The 2019 CitiusTech 'AI in Healthcare' Readiness Survey polled over 50 health systems to develop an industry viewpoint and key insights on the state of AI/ML adoption, key challenges and the near-term outlook for healthcare providers.
Why Healthcare Costing Matters to Enable Strategy and Financial PerformanceHealth Catalyst
According to Moody’s Investment Service Analysis, not-for-profit hospital margins are at an all-time low of 1.6% while the American Hospital Association has found that 30% of all hospitals have negative margins. Financial pressures are continuing to increase in an environment of rising costs, lower payments, an aging population, higher patient responsibility and changing consumer demands. Now more than ever healthcare providers need to have an accurate picture of their costing information to enable precise, strategic decisions that will improve financial performance.
Activity-based costing has the power to do just that. In this webinar Steve Vance, SVP, Professional Services, Health Catalyst explores different costing methodologies and discusses why activity-based costing is the preferable method to manage margins because it directly ties services to their costs. Many healthcare organizations base their costs on generalized drivers such as relative value units (RVUs) through their chargemaster rather than on specific activities associated with their services, leading to inaccurate assumptions and poor decisions.
View this webinar to learn:
- Why activity-based costing should be your core tool for improving financial performance.
- The differences and implications between costing methodologies.
- How to leverage data from an Electronic Data Warehouse (EDW) and automate processes while improving accuracy.
- Ways that you can make strategic decisions using clinical and operational data when tied to costing data.
- Activity-based costing use cases such as contract negotiations, pricing decisions, population health management (PHM), and process improvement efforts
We hope that you will view the webinar and learn from the depth and breadth of Steve’s extensive financial experience.
Platforms and Partnerships: The Building Blocks for Digital InnovationHealth Catalyst
Virtually all service-oriented industries have experienced massive disruption and transformation, resulting from the confluence of digital, mobile, cloud, data, and consumerization. And then there’s healthcare…
In this webinar Ryan Smith, executive advisor at Health Catalyst, shares practical insights gained from his combined 25 years of IT and digital leadership roles at Banner Health and Intermountain Healthcare. He explores why our industry is struggling to provide the tools and self-service experiences that patients and consumers have come to expect in every other aspect of their lives. To attract and retain patients and members, healthcare organizations need to “shift gears” and go on the digital offensive to sustain brand loyalty; however, decades of siloed, monolithic approaches to implementing technology and managing data continue to hamper industry progress.
During this session, Ryan shares his approach for building business support to enable digital transformation.
By viewing this webinar, you will learn key digitization concepts:
- How to conceptualize a digital enablement framework.
- Ten strategic guiding principles for technology leaders.
- Why it’s vital to create business-driven technology governance.
- Why building strategic vendor partnerships really matters.
- How to apply case studies to bolster digital investments.
Revenue Cycle Management Documentation and Process MeasurementHenry Draughon
Revenue Cycle Management is a complicated process that can be tamed and reap rewards...if you can measure it. It's hard to measure what you can't see. This presentation illustrates a method of documenting revenue cycle management in a way that makes it visually and operationally consumable, presentable and defendable.
Provides an overview of various ACO models existing in U.S. healthcare, their evolution and performance over last 5-6 years and provide a perspective on each of the model
Streamline denial management process with intelligent automationRuchi Jain
Claim Denial management is a challenging process. Increased Denials can adversely affect revenue cycle operations. Ensuring accurate medical records can be difficult, with exponential growth in the administrative cost of denial claims. It can affect care delivery and hamper cash flow processes.
Introducing Healthfinch by Health Catalyst: Charlie for Refill Management: Im...Health Catalyst
Healthcare providers are overwhelmed with administrative EHR tasks that take precious time away from patient care and can lead to an unhealthy work-life balance. As a result, providers face burnout and declining productivity, impacting quality and delaying patient care.
That’s why Health Catalyst is excited to introduce its new partnership with Healthfinch. Healthfinch’s solution, Charlie for Refill Management, is the healthcare industry’s most trusted and used prescription renewal solution. Charlie for Refill Management safely and efficiently delegates renewal requests to non-provider staff, reducing the EHR administrative burden so that providers can focus on top-of-license work.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how Charlie for Refill Management provides EHR-embedded insights fueled by evidence-based protocols, allowing staff to quickly approve prescription renewal requests on behalf of providers and proactively close gaps in patient care. Specifically, learn how Charlie for Refill Management helps achieve the following:
- Saves time by eliminating time-consuming, manual chart review.
- Improves quality by implementing standardized, evidence-based protocols across an organization.
- Transforms workflows with a fully integrated solution that provides insights directly in EHR workflows.
- Identifies care gaps to provide a better, safer patient experience while also driving additional or missed revenue.
Healthcare providers are ready and planning to assume increased levels of risk through commercial payer and Medicare contracting models and Medicare Advantage, according to a new Navigant analysis based on a survey conducted by HFMA.
The Data Maze: Navigating the Complexities of Data GovernanceHealth Catalyst
Most organizations struggle to turn their data into a strategic asset. Oftentimes they lack the data they need, and don’t trust the data they have. This results in a struggle to surface meaningful opportunities, quantify the value of those opportunities, and transform insight into action. In this webinar, your host Tom Burton shares strategies for improving data literacy, ensuring data quality, and expanding data utilization.
This interactive, “choose your own adventure” style experience, allowed attendees to discover how investing in a deliberate, principle-based strategy can help them navigate the complexities of data governance and maximize the value of data for outcomes improvement.
View the webinar and learn:
- Demonstrate how to unleash data at your organization with efforts across the improvement spectrum.
- Recognize how to sustain and spread improvements across your entire organization.
- Illustrate the importance of investing in analytics training and infrastructure to prepare for massive improvement in healthcare outcomes.
- Understand the 5 key stages of the Data Life Cycle.
- Demonstrate strategies to overcome the common challenges around data quality, data utilization, and data literacy.
- Show how a data governance framework can accelerate improvement in clinical, cost, and experience outcomes.
These slides are the property of Chilmark Research and have been published with their permission.
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Population Health Management (PHM) has been in the health IT lexicon for nearly a decade, yet the industry still lacks a clear definition of how provider organizations extract value from their PHM initiatives. Part of the problem is that PHM is often defined as a technology solution when it, in fact, is not. Rather, PHM is a technology-enabled strategy that includes a multitude of capabilities (e.g., interoperability, analytics, care management, engagement, etc.) and services. Secondly, an organization adopts a PHM strategy to support its value-based care (VBC) contracts, but VBC remains an elusive target that is highly dependent on local and regional conditions.
In this presentation, John Moore briefly walks through the evolution of the PHM market and its increasingly integral tie to VBC and future technology and market trajectories. Highlighted topics include EHR versus best-of-breed solutions, FHIR and open APIs, and the increasing role of IT-enabled services.
Learning Objectives:
- Reframing PHM: Defining PHM as a strategy, not a product.
- Core elements of a technology-enabled PHM strategy.
- Moving organizational economics from fee-for-service to VBC and the role of Medicare Advantage.
- The impact of new interoperability efforts and trends to enable effective PHM strategies.
A Reference Architecture for Digital Health: The Health Catalyst Data Operati...Health Catalyst
There are essentially four strategic options to address the enterprise data platform requirements of today’s healthcare systems: (1) build your own, (2) buy from EHR vendors, (3) look to a Silicon Valley high-tech startup, and (4) partner with Health Catalyst or a handful of similar companies.
In this webinar, Health Catalyst’s CTO, Dale Sanders, comments on all four approaches, hoping to help you to assess your organization’s strategy against the options and vendors in each category.
It’s been exactly three years since Health Catalyst embarked on a major investment in its next-generation technology, the Data Operating System (DOS™) and its applications. This webinar is an update on the progress, less about marketing the technology, but rather offering DOS as a reference architecture that can support analytics, AI, text processing, data-first application development, and interoperability, as an all-in-one agile cost-savings architecture.
In addition to the successes, Dale comments on the challenges that Health Catalyst has faced under a very ambitious DOS development plan. In its current state, DOS has made some significant improvements to overcome early mistakes, and is now a very solid enterprise data platform. In the interests of industry-wide learning, Sanders will talk transparently about those mistakes and how those learnings are being applied to the DOS platform, positioning it to evolve gracefully over the next 25 years.
View the webinar to learn how the DOS reference architecture:
- Helps manage the 2,000+ compulsory measures in US healthcare
- Enables applications as varied as a real-time patient safety surveillance system, and an activity-based costing system in one platform
- Can ingest data of any type or velocity from over 300 healthcare source systems and growing
- Bundles tools, applications, and analytics that would cost 3-6x more to build on your own
- Compares to EHR vendors as an option to serve as an enterprise data and analytics platform
- Is a performant, sustainable, and maintainable platform for deploying AI models in the natural flow of the healthcare data pipeline
- Provides curated data content and models while still allowing for the agility of a late binding design option
- Functions as a reference architecture that all healthcare organizations and vendors will ultimately have to build in their pursuit of digital health
Webinar Deck: The Changing Face of IT Outsourcing in the Healthcare Payer Mar...Everest Group
On June 5, Everest Group will host a one-hour webinar that will answer the following questions: What are the beneath-the-surface changes taking place in the payer IT industry? What are the trends and opportunities arising out of these changes? Why should CIOs start thinking of these transformational changes now? How should service providers assess their services portfolios and sales strategies from this transformational change perspective?
The Top Five Insights into Healthcare Operational Outcomes ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Effective, sustainable healthcare transformation rests in the organizational operations that power care delivery. Operations include the administrative, financial, legal, and clinical activities that keep health systems running and caring for patients. With operations so critical to care delivery, forward-thinking organizations continuously strive to improve their operational outcomes. Health systems can follow thought leadership that addresses common industry challenges—including waste reduction, obstacles in process change, limited hospital capacity, and complex project management—to inform their operational improvement strategies.
Five top insights address the following aspects of healthcare operational outcomes improvement:
Quality improvement as a foundational business strategy.
Using improvement science for true change.
Increasing hospital capacity without construction.
Leveraging project management techniques.
Features of highly effective improvement projects.
The Foundations of Success in Population Health ManagementHealth Catalyst
From hospital systems to large employers, organizations are increasingly taking on financial risk for the health of populations. Drivers of this trend include the update to the MSSP model, the recent CMS Primary Cares Initiative announcement, the increasing prevalence of the Medicare Advantage model, innovative partnerships in the self-insured employer space, and the proliferation of Medicaid ACOs. Yet while market pressures push organizations toward population risk, they don't necessarily help them succeed: most organizations are struggling to attain or sustain the dual imperatives of high-quality care and cost containment. A primary reason? Short-sighted and tactical approaches that don't provide the flexible data infrastructure and tools to adapt to emerging trends in population health—or to support short-term contractual requirements while building toward long-term success.
View this launch webinar to learn about Health Catalyst’s Population Health Foundations solution, a data and analytics-first starter set aimed at optimizing performance in value-based risk arrangements and providing the data ecosystem that will flex and adapt to complex needs of risk-bearing organizations. Solution services ensure that the strategic value of data is maximized to improve performance in risk contracts—and provide side-by-side subject matter expert partnership for establishing short- and long-term goals for population health management (PHM).
Built on Health Catalyst’s foundational technology and supported by the nationwide experience and perspective of its experts, the Population Health Foundations solution helps organizations leverage multiple data sources to understand their patient populations and create meaningful views of financial and clinical quality performance. As a starter set that organizations can build on based on their needs, the solution is designed to compensate for the known limitations of “black box” population health applications that fail to reveal the “why” of analytic insights and exacerbate the challenges of transforming quality, cost, and care. The Population Health Foundations solution delivers the essential analytic tools needed for success under value-based risk arrangements.
In these slides you can expect to:
- Review recent changes to the field of value-based care, and reactions and insights from the market
- Discover how the Population Health Foundations solution can act as a comprehensive, data-first analytics solution to support your population stratification and monitoring needs
- Understand how this solution functions as a foundational starter set for value-based care success, enabling clients to leverage all their data and other relevant population health tools
Population Stratification Made Easy, Quick, and Transparent for AnyoneHealth Catalyst
One of the fundamental tasks when creating a population health initiative is to identify the right patients for the right interventions. The challenge with identifying patients is two-fold—there isn’t a one-size-fits all stratification method; and, current stratification tools prove to be inflexible, “black box” solutions that require time-consuming, technical expertise to customize the algorithms. Many commonly used stratification methods also fail to take advantage of the whole-patient picture, using the limited data sources that are available.
To address these challenges, Health Catalyst developed the Population Builder™️: Stratification Module; a fast, adaptable tool that allows for rapid and transparent stratification of patient groups based on predefined, yet easy to customize, populations and then provides the architecture to integrate the stratified populations into the population health workflow.
Based on the existing Population Builder tool, the Stratification Module consists of several population health building blocks that users can mix and match to create purpose-driven, transparent, and customizable populations to fit their needs. The building blocks save users the time and effort of creating the raw materials required for effective stratification by providing industry standard, evidence-based definitions for over 6,000 value sets, 21 predefined chronic condition registries, ED utilization (combined claims and clinical data), transition of care, and predictive risk models all in one tool. In addition, the power of AI is made accessible and easy with Health Catalyst-developed risk algorithms that are targeted to specific interventions.
View the Population Builder: Stratification Module webinar to learn more about its functionality, understand the customization process, observe a unique framework that integrates claims and clinical data, and make it easy to consume customized data sources, so that your algorithms include all of your available patient data.
In this webinar you can expect to:
- Learn how Population Builder: Stratification Module is used to combine data from multiple data sources—including claims and clinical data—to stratify based on a “whole patient picture.”
- Get a glimpse of the predefined stratification content that is packaged within the Population Builder: Stratification Module.
- Understand how the Population Builder: Stratification Module allows non-technical experts to quickly and transparently create sophisticated stratification algorithms.
- See how “published” patient lists, or registries, are created within Population Builder: Stratification Module and accessible by the DOS ecosystem.
Strategic Options for Analytics in HealthcareDale Sanders
There are essentially four analytic strategies available in the healthcare IT market at present. This slide summarizes those options, the pros and cons, and vendors in the space.
Amplify Your Organization’s Revenue Opportunities: Introducing Health Catalys...Health Catalyst
Healthcare financial leaders face a variety of threats to the revenue cycle. Common challenges include manual processes, the lack of integrated workflows, and different IT systems as well as external challenges, such as regulatory issues and shifting reimbursement regulations. Furthermore, changes in billing methods, new technologies, lack of staff training, and obsolete charging practices force healthcare organizations to leave a portion of net revenue on the table. To address these obstacles, revenue cycle leaders need granular data that reveals the root cause of lost charges.
With the Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™ web-based application, health systems can efficiently manage hospital charge capture processes, detect compliance issues, and secure more earned revenue. By revealing the root cause of every revenue challenge, VitalIntegrity enables teams to minimize leakage from under- and over-charging, late or missing coding, mismatched charges and supplies, and a wide range of CDM-related matters.
Adam Ziegel, Director of Product Management, demonstrates how VitalIntegrity can help your organization identify considerably more revenue opportunities.
The 2019 CitiusTech 'AI in Healthcare' Readiness Survey polled over 50 health systems to develop an industry viewpoint and key insights on the state of AI/ML adoption, key challenges and the near-term outlook for healthcare providers.
Why Healthcare Costing Matters to Enable Strategy and Financial PerformanceHealth Catalyst
According to Moody’s Investment Service Analysis, not-for-profit hospital margins are at an all-time low of 1.6% while the American Hospital Association has found that 30% of all hospitals have negative margins. Financial pressures are continuing to increase in an environment of rising costs, lower payments, an aging population, higher patient responsibility and changing consumer demands. Now more than ever healthcare providers need to have an accurate picture of their costing information to enable precise, strategic decisions that will improve financial performance.
Activity-based costing has the power to do just that. In this webinar Steve Vance, SVP, Professional Services, Health Catalyst explores different costing methodologies and discusses why activity-based costing is the preferable method to manage margins because it directly ties services to their costs. Many healthcare organizations base their costs on generalized drivers such as relative value units (RVUs) through their chargemaster rather than on specific activities associated with their services, leading to inaccurate assumptions and poor decisions.
View this webinar to learn:
- Why activity-based costing should be your core tool for improving financial performance.
- The differences and implications between costing methodologies.
- How to leverage data from an Electronic Data Warehouse (EDW) and automate processes while improving accuracy.
- Ways that you can make strategic decisions using clinical and operational data when tied to costing data.
- Activity-based costing use cases such as contract negotiations, pricing decisions, population health management (PHM), and process improvement efforts
We hope that you will view the webinar and learn from the depth and breadth of Steve’s extensive financial experience.
Platforms and Partnerships: The Building Blocks for Digital InnovationHealth Catalyst
Virtually all service-oriented industries have experienced massive disruption and transformation, resulting from the confluence of digital, mobile, cloud, data, and consumerization. And then there’s healthcare…
In this webinar Ryan Smith, executive advisor at Health Catalyst, shares practical insights gained from his combined 25 years of IT and digital leadership roles at Banner Health and Intermountain Healthcare. He explores why our industry is struggling to provide the tools and self-service experiences that patients and consumers have come to expect in every other aspect of their lives. To attract and retain patients and members, healthcare organizations need to “shift gears” and go on the digital offensive to sustain brand loyalty; however, decades of siloed, monolithic approaches to implementing technology and managing data continue to hamper industry progress.
During this session, Ryan shares his approach for building business support to enable digital transformation.
By viewing this webinar, you will learn key digitization concepts:
- How to conceptualize a digital enablement framework.
- Ten strategic guiding principles for technology leaders.
- Why it’s vital to create business-driven technology governance.
- Why building strategic vendor partnerships really matters.
- How to apply case studies to bolster digital investments.
Revenue Cycle Management Documentation and Process MeasurementHenry Draughon
Revenue Cycle Management is a complicated process that can be tamed and reap rewards...if you can measure it. It's hard to measure what you can't see. This presentation illustrates a method of documenting revenue cycle management in a way that makes it visually and operationally consumable, presentable and defendable.
Provides an overview of various ACO models existing in U.S. healthcare, their evolution and performance over last 5-6 years and provide a perspective on each of the model
Streamline denial management process with intelligent automationRuchi Jain
Claim Denial management is a challenging process. Increased Denials can adversely affect revenue cycle operations. Ensuring accurate medical records can be difficult, with exponential growth in the administrative cost of denial claims. It can affect care delivery and hamper cash flow processes.
Introducing Healthfinch by Health Catalyst: Charlie for Refill Management: Im...Health Catalyst
Healthcare providers are overwhelmed with administrative EHR tasks that take precious time away from patient care and can lead to an unhealthy work-life balance. As a result, providers face burnout and declining productivity, impacting quality and delaying patient care.
That’s why Health Catalyst is excited to introduce its new partnership with Healthfinch. Healthfinch’s solution, Charlie for Refill Management, is the healthcare industry’s most trusted and used prescription renewal solution. Charlie for Refill Management safely and efficiently delegates renewal requests to non-provider staff, reducing the EHR administrative burden so that providers can focus on top-of-license work.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how Charlie for Refill Management provides EHR-embedded insights fueled by evidence-based protocols, allowing staff to quickly approve prescription renewal requests on behalf of providers and proactively close gaps in patient care. Specifically, learn how Charlie for Refill Management helps achieve the following:
- Saves time by eliminating time-consuming, manual chart review.
- Improves quality by implementing standardized, evidence-based protocols across an organization.
- Transforms workflows with a fully integrated solution that provides insights directly in EHR workflows.
- Identifies care gaps to provide a better, safer patient experience while also driving additional or missed revenue.
Healthcare providers are ready and planning to assume increased levels of risk through commercial payer and Medicare contracting models and Medicare Advantage, according to a new Navigant analysis based on a survey conducted by HFMA.
The Data Maze: Navigating the Complexities of Data GovernanceHealth Catalyst
Most organizations struggle to turn their data into a strategic asset. Oftentimes they lack the data they need, and don’t trust the data they have. This results in a struggle to surface meaningful opportunities, quantify the value of those opportunities, and transform insight into action. In this webinar, your host Tom Burton shares strategies for improving data literacy, ensuring data quality, and expanding data utilization.
This interactive, “choose your own adventure” style experience, allowed attendees to discover how investing in a deliberate, principle-based strategy can help them navigate the complexities of data governance and maximize the value of data for outcomes improvement.
View the webinar and learn:
- Demonstrate how to unleash data at your organization with efforts across the improvement spectrum.
- Recognize how to sustain and spread improvements across your entire organization.
- Illustrate the importance of investing in analytics training and infrastructure to prepare for massive improvement in healthcare outcomes.
- Understand the 5 key stages of the Data Life Cycle.
- Demonstrate strategies to overcome the common challenges around data quality, data utilization, and data literacy.
- Show how a data governance framework can accelerate improvement in clinical, cost, and experience outcomes.
These slides are the property of Chilmark Research and have been published with their permission.
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Population Health Management (PHM) has been in the health IT lexicon for nearly a decade, yet the industry still lacks a clear definition of how provider organizations extract value from their PHM initiatives. Part of the problem is that PHM is often defined as a technology solution when it, in fact, is not. Rather, PHM is a technology-enabled strategy that includes a multitude of capabilities (e.g., interoperability, analytics, care management, engagement, etc.) and services. Secondly, an organization adopts a PHM strategy to support its value-based care (VBC) contracts, but VBC remains an elusive target that is highly dependent on local and regional conditions.
In this presentation, John Moore briefly walks through the evolution of the PHM market and its increasingly integral tie to VBC and future technology and market trajectories. Highlighted topics include EHR versus best-of-breed solutions, FHIR and open APIs, and the increasing role of IT-enabled services.
Learning Objectives:
- Reframing PHM: Defining PHM as a strategy, not a product.
- Core elements of a technology-enabled PHM strategy.
- Moving organizational economics from fee-for-service to VBC and the role of Medicare Advantage.
- The impact of new interoperability efforts and trends to enable effective PHM strategies.
A Reference Architecture for Digital Health: The Health Catalyst Data Operati...Health Catalyst
There are essentially four strategic options to address the enterprise data platform requirements of today’s healthcare systems: (1) build your own, (2) buy from EHR vendors, (3) look to a Silicon Valley high-tech startup, and (4) partner with Health Catalyst or a handful of similar companies.
In this webinar, Health Catalyst’s CTO, Dale Sanders, comments on all four approaches, hoping to help you to assess your organization’s strategy against the options and vendors in each category.
It’s been exactly three years since Health Catalyst embarked on a major investment in its next-generation technology, the Data Operating System (DOS™) and its applications. This webinar is an update on the progress, less about marketing the technology, but rather offering DOS as a reference architecture that can support analytics, AI, text processing, data-first application development, and interoperability, as an all-in-one agile cost-savings architecture.
In addition to the successes, Dale comments on the challenges that Health Catalyst has faced under a very ambitious DOS development plan. In its current state, DOS has made some significant improvements to overcome early mistakes, and is now a very solid enterprise data platform. In the interests of industry-wide learning, Sanders will talk transparently about those mistakes and how those learnings are being applied to the DOS platform, positioning it to evolve gracefully over the next 25 years.
View the webinar to learn how the DOS reference architecture:
- Helps manage the 2,000+ compulsory measures in US healthcare
- Enables applications as varied as a real-time patient safety surveillance system, and an activity-based costing system in one platform
- Can ingest data of any type or velocity from over 300 healthcare source systems and growing
- Bundles tools, applications, and analytics that would cost 3-6x more to build on your own
- Compares to EHR vendors as an option to serve as an enterprise data and analytics platform
- Is a performant, sustainable, and maintainable platform for deploying AI models in the natural flow of the healthcare data pipeline
- Provides curated data content and models while still allowing for the agility of a late binding design option
- Functions as a reference architecture that all healthcare organizations and vendors will ultimately have to build in their pursuit of digital health
Webinar Deck: The Changing Face of IT Outsourcing in the Healthcare Payer Mar...Everest Group
On June 5, Everest Group will host a one-hour webinar that will answer the following questions: What are the beneath-the-surface changes taking place in the payer IT industry? What are the trends and opportunities arising out of these changes? Why should CIOs start thinking of these transformational changes now? How should service providers assess their services portfolios and sales strategies from this transformational change perspective?
The Top Five Insights into Healthcare Operational Outcomes ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Effective, sustainable healthcare transformation rests in the organizational operations that power care delivery. Operations include the administrative, financial, legal, and clinical activities that keep health systems running and caring for patients. With operations so critical to care delivery, forward-thinking organizations continuously strive to improve their operational outcomes. Health systems can follow thought leadership that addresses common industry challenges—including waste reduction, obstacles in process change, limited hospital capacity, and complex project management—to inform their operational improvement strategies.
Five top insights address the following aspects of healthcare operational outcomes improvement:
Quality improvement as a foundational business strategy.
Using improvement science for true change.
Increasing hospital capacity without construction.
Leveraging project management techniques.
Features of highly effective improvement projects.
The Foundations of Success in Population Health ManagementHealth Catalyst
From hospital systems to large employers, organizations are increasingly taking on financial risk for the health of populations. Drivers of this trend include the update to the MSSP model, the recent CMS Primary Cares Initiative announcement, the increasing prevalence of the Medicare Advantage model, innovative partnerships in the self-insured employer space, and the proliferation of Medicaid ACOs. Yet while market pressures push organizations toward population risk, they don't necessarily help them succeed: most organizations are struggling to attain or sustain the dual imperatives of high-quality care and cost containment. A primary reason? Short-sighted and tactical approaches that don't provide the flexible data infrastructure and tools to adapt to emerging trends in population health—or to support short-term contractual requirements while building toward long-term success.
View this launch webinar to learn about Health Catalyst’s Population Health Foundations solution, a data and analytics-first starter set aimed at optimizing performance in value-based risk arrangements and providing the data ecosystem that will flex and adapt to complex needs of risk-bearing organizations. Solution services ensure that the strategic value of data is maximized to improve performance in risk contracts—and provide side-by-side subject matter expert partnership for establishing short- and long-term goals for population health management (PHM).
Built on Health Catalyst’s foundational technology and supported by the nationwide experience and perspective of its experts, the Population Health Foundations solution helps organizations leverage multiple data sources to understand their patient populations and create meaningful views of financial and clinical quality performance. As a starter set that organizations can build on based on their needs, the solution is designed to compensate for the known limitations of “black box” population health applications that fail to reveal the “why” of analytic insights and exacerbate the challenges of transforming quality, cost, and care. The Population Health Foundations solution delivers the essential analytic tools needed for success under value-based risk arrangements.
In these slides you can expect to:
- Review recent changes to the field of value-based care, and reactions and insights from the market
- Discover how the Population Health Foundations solution can act as a comprehensive, data-first analytics solution to support your population stratification and monitoring needs
- Understand how this solution functions as a foundational starter set for value-based care success, enabling clients to leverage all their data and other relevant population health tools
Population Stratification Made Easy, Quick, and Transparent for AnyoneHealth Catalyst
One of the fundamental tasks when creating a population health initiative is to identify the right patients for the right interventions. The challenge with identifying patients is two-fold—there isn’t a one-size-fits all stratification method; and, current stratification tools prove to be inflexible, “black box” solutions that require time-consuming, technical expertise to customize the algorithms. Many commonly used stratification methods also fail to take advantage of the whole-patient picture, using the limited data sources that are available.
To address these challenges, Health Catalyst developed the Population Builder™️: Stratification Module; a fast, adaptable tool that allows for rapid and transparent stratification of patient groups based on predefined, yet easy to customize, populations and then provides the architecture to integrate the stratified populations into the population health workflow.
Based on the existing Population Builder tool, the Stratification Module consists of several population health building blocks that users can mix and match to create purpose-driven, transparent, and customizable populations to fit their needs. The building blocks save users the time and effort of creating the raw materials required for effective stratification by providing industry standard, evidence-based definitions for over 6,000 value sets, 21 predefined chronic condition registries, ED utilization (combined claims and clinical data), transition of care, and predictive risk models all in one tool. In addition, the power of AI is made accessible and easy with Health Catalyst-developed risk algorithms that are targeted to specific interventions.
View the Population Builder: Stratification Module webinar to learn more about its functionality, understand the customization process, observe a unique framework that integrates claims and clinical data, and make it easy to consume customized data sources, so that your algorithms include all of your available patient data.
In this webinar you can expect to:
- Learn how Population Builder: Stratification Module is used to combine data from multiple data sources—including claims and clinical data—to stratify based on a “whole patient picture.”
- Get a glimpse of the predefined stratification content that is packaged within the Population Builder: Stratification Module.
- Understand how the Population Builder: Stratification Module allows non-technical experts to quickly and transparently create sophisticated stratification algorithms.
- See how “published” patient lists, or registries, are created within Population Builder: Stratification Module and accessible by the DOS ecosystem.
Strategic Options for Analytics in HealthcareDale Sanders
There are essentially four analytic strategies available in the healthcare IT market at present. This slide summarizes those options, the pros and cons, and vendors in the space.
Amplify Your Organization’s Revenue Opportunities: Introducing Health Catalys...Health Catalyst
Healthcare financial leaders face a variety of threats to the revenue cycle. Common challenges include manual processes, the lack of integrated workflows, and different IT systems as well as external challenges, such as regulatory issues and shifting reimbursement regulations. Furthermore, changes in billing methods, new technologies, lack of staff training, and obsolete charging practices force healthcare organizations to leave a portion of net revenue on the table. To address these obstacles, revenue cycle leaders need granular data that reveals the root cause of lost charges.
With the Health Catalyst VitalIntegrity™ web-based application, health systems can efficiently manage hospital charge capture processes, detect compliance issues, and secure more earned revenue. By revealing the root cause of every revenue challenge, VitalIntegrity enables teams to minimize leakage from under- and over-charging, late or missing coding, mismatched charges and supplies, and a wide range of CDM-related matters.
Adam Ziegel, Director of Product Management, demonstrates how VitalIntegrity can help your organization identify considerably more revenue opportunities.
5 Tips to Reduce Claim Denials at Medical PracticesKunal Jain
Kaizen means small continuous improvements across all processes. You can do several things to improve your medical practice revenues from the existing client base. Chief among them is reducing the delays and minimizing errors in claims processing. Here's a list of 5 things you can do today to reduce denials and improve practice revenues.
Implementing Fee-for-Value at a Medical PracticeKunal Jain
The three essential elements for implementing a fee-for-value patient care model at a medical practice are 1. people and partners 2. processes and 3. systems. Here's a list of changes you need to implement in each element to move from fee-for-service(FFS) to fee-for-value (FFV) model.
What questions should you be asking while evaluating prospective medical billing companies? Here's a list of 6 essential questions that medical practice owners must ask before signing up with a medical billing company.
5 Patient Scheduling Tips to Improve the Patient ExperienceKunal Jain
Patient experience with your practice impacts client satisfaction scores and ultimately your medical practice revenue. As per an MGMA report, 81% of practices are operating at full capacity. So how can they improve the patient scheduling experience? Here are five patient scheduling tips that can be adopted by medical practices of all types and sizes.
To safeguard your medical practice from compliance scrutiny and to ensure that you collect billed claims at the earliest, ensure that you document every aspect of a telemedicine visit. View the complete slideshow and visit www.practiceforces.com for more information on telemedicine billing.
We understand the unique challenges pickleball players face and are committed to helping you stay healthy and active. In this presentation, we’ll explore the three most common pickleball injuries and provide strategies for prevention and treatment.
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair A New Horizon in Nephrology.pptxR3 Stem Cell
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair: A New Horizon in Nephrology" explores groundbreaking advancements in the use of R3 stem cells for kidney disease treatment. This insightful piece delves into the potential of these cells to regenerate damaged kidney tissue, offering new hope for patients and reshaping the future of nephrology.
Medical Technology Tackles New Health Care Demand - Research Report - March 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) predicts that with, against, despite, and even without the global pandemic, the medical technology (MedTech) industry shows signs of continuous healthy growth, driven by smaller, faster, and cheaper devices, growing demand for home-based applications, technological innovation, strategic acquisitions, investments, and SPAC listings. MCG predicts that this should reflects itself in annual growth of over 6%, well beyond 2028.
According to Chris Mouchabhani, Managing Partner at M Capital Group, “Despite all economic scenarios that one may consider, beyond overall economic shocks, medical technology should remain one of the most promising and robust sectors over the short to medium term and well beyond 2028.”
There is a movement towards home-based care for the elderly, next generation scanning and MRI devices, wearable technology, artificial intelligence incorporation, and online connectivity. Experts also see a focus on predictive, preventive, personalized, participatory, and precision medicine, with rising levels of integration of home care and technological innovation.
The average cost of treatment has been rising across the board, creating additional financial burdens to governments, healthcare providers and insurance companies. According to MCG, cost-per-inpatient-stay in the United States alone rose on average annually by over 13% between 2014 to 2021, leading MedTech to focus research efforts on optimized medical equipment at lower price points, whilst emphasizing portability and ease of use. Namely, 46% of the 1,008 medical technology companies in the 2021 MedTech Innovator (“MTI”) database are focusing on prevention, wellness, detection, or diagnosis, signaling a clear push for preventive care to also tackle costs.
In addition, there has also been a lasting impact on consumer and medical demand for home care, supported by the pandemic. Lockdowns, closure of care facilities, and healthcare systems subjected to capacity pressure, accelerated demand away from traditional inpatient care. Now, outpatient care solutions are driving industry production, with nearly 70% of recent diagnostics start-up companies producing products in areas such as ambulatory clinics, at-home care, and self-administered diagnostics.
Telehealth Psychology Building Trust with Clients.pptxThe Harvest Clinic
Telehealth psychology is a digital approach that offers psychological services and mental health care to clients remotely, using technologies like video conferencing, phone calls, text messaging, and mobile apps for communication.
One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, holds immense potential to reshape medicine, agriculture, and our understanding of life. But like any powerful tool, it comes with ethical considerations.
Unveiling CRISPR: This naturally occurring bacterial defense system (crRNA & Cas9 protein) fights viruses. Scientists repurposed it for precise gene editing (correction, deletion, insertion) by targeting specific DNA sequences.
The Promise: CRISPR offers exciting possibilities:
Gene Therapy: Correcting genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis.
Agriculture: Engineering crops resistant to pests and harsh environments.
Research: Studying gene function to unlock new knowledge.
The Peril: Ethical concerns demand attention:
Off-target Effects: Unintended DNA edits can have unforeseen consequences.
Eugenics: Misusing CRISPR for designer babies raises social and ethical questions.
Equity: High costs could limit access to this potentially life-saving technology.
The Path Forward: Responsible development is crucial:
International Collaboration: Clear guidelines are needed for research and human trials.
Public Education: Open discussions ensure informed decisions about CRISPR.
Prioritize Safety and Ethics: Safety and ethical principles must be paramount.
CRISPR offers a powerful tool for a better future, but responsible development and addressing ethical concerns are essential. By prioritizing safety, fostering open dialogue, and ensuring equitable access, we can harness CRISPR's power for the benefit of all. (2998 characters)
India Clinical Trials Market: Industry Size and Growth Trends [2030] Analyzed...Kumar Satyam
According to TechSci Research report, "India Clinical Trials Market- By Region, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2030F," the India Clinical Trials Market was valued at USD 2.05 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.64% through 2030. The market is driven by a variety of factors, making India an attractive destination for pharmaceutical companies and researchers. India's vast and diverse patient population, cost-effective operational environment, and a large pool of skilled medical professionals contribute significantly to the market's growth. Additionally, increasing government support in streamlining regulations and the growing prevalence of lifestyle diseases further propel the clinical trials market.
Growing Prevalence of Lifestyle Diseases
The rising incidence of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer is a major trend driving the clinical trials market in India. These conditions necessitate the development and testing of new treatment methods, creating a robust demand for clinical trials. The increasing burden of these diseases highlights the need for innovative therapies and underscores the importance of India as a key player in global clinical research.
Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
This conference will delve into the intricate intersections between mental health, legal frameworks, and the prison system in Bolivia. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges faced by mental health professionals working within the legislative and correctional landscapes. Topics of discussion will include the prevalence and impact of mental health issues among the incarcerated population, the effectiveness of existing mental health policies and legislation, and potential reforms to enhance the mental health support system within prisons.
Leading the Way in Nephrology: Dr. David Greene's Work with Stem Cells for Ki...Dr. David Greene Arizona
As we watch Dr. Greene's continued efforts and research in Arizona, it's clear that stem cell therapy holds a promising key to unlocking new doors in the treatment of kidney disease. With each study and trial, we step closer to a world where kidney disease is no longer a life sentence but a treatable condition, thanks to pioneers like Dr. David Greene.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V - ROLE OF PEADIATRIC NURSE.pdfSachin Sharma
Pediatric nurses play a vital role in the health and well-being of children. Their responsibilities are wide-ranging, and their objectives can be categorized into several key areas:
1. Direct Patient Care:
Objective: Provide comprehensive and compassionate care to infants, children, and adolescents in various healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.).
This includes tasks like:
Monitoring vital signs and physical condition.
Administering medications and treatments.
Performing procedures as directed by doctors.
Assisting with daily living activities (bathing, feeding).
Providing emotional support and pain management.
2. Health Promotion and Education:
Objective: Promote healthy behaviors and educate children, families, and communities about preventive healthcare.
This includes tasks like:
Administering vaccinations.
Providing education on nutrition, hygiene, and development.
Offering breastfeeding and childbirth support.
Counseling families on safety and injury prevention.
3. Collaboration and Advocacy:
Objective: Collaborate effectively with doctors, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care for children.
Objective: Advocate for the rights and best interests of their patients, especially when children cannot speak for themselves.
This includes tasks like:
Communicating effectively with healthcare teams.
Identifying and addressing potential risks to child welfare.
Educating families about their child's condition and treatment options.
4. Professional Development and Research:
Objective: Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in pediatric healthcare through continuing education and research.
Objective: Contribute to improving the quality of care for children by participating in research initiatives.
This includes tasks like:
Attending workshops and conferences on pediatric nursing.
Participating in clinical trials related to child health.
Implementing evidence-based practices into their daily routines.
By fulfilling these objectives, pediatric nurses play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal health and well-being of children throughout all stages of their development.