Historically technology and talent were primary assets used to weigh the value of M&A activity, but data is an equal pillar. Buyers (the acquiring organizations) face enormous responsibility and risk with M&A transactions. C-suite leaders have a lot to consider—enterprise-wide technology, finances, operations, facilities, talent, processes, workflows, etc.—during the due diligence process. But attention is often heavily weighted toward time-honored balance sheet and facility assets rather than next-generation assets with the long-term strategic value in the M&A process: data. The model for conducting due diligence around data involves four disciplines:
Establish the strategic objectives of the M&A with the leadership team.
Prioritize data along with the standardization of solutions and the design of a new IT organization (i.e., a co-equal effort for data, tools, and talent).
Identify the near-term data strategic priorities, stakeholders, and tools.
Assess the talent and consider creating an analytics center of excellence (ACOE) to harness organizational capabilities.
To Safely Restart Elective Procedures, Look to the DataHealth Catalyst
This document discusses how healthcare organizations can use data and analytics to safely restart elective procedures after suspending them due to COVID-19. It notes that the suspension led to significant financial losses and outlines how robust data infrastructure, dashboards, predictive models, and a flexible approach can help optimize resource use and guide a safe reactivation plan. Effective data tools are needed to understand opportunities and inform decisions around restarting elective surgeries and procedures.
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.
Shifting to Virtual Care in the COVID-19 Era: Analytics for Financial Success...Health Catalyst
The COVID-19 era has seen a decline in visits to ambulatory care practices by 60 percent and an estimated financial loss for primary care of over $15 billion. Shutting down elective care is financially unsustainable for health systems and for patients, who continue to need non-pandemic-related care. While virtual medicine has emerged as a viable and mutually beneficial solution for patients and providers, the shift from in-person to virtual health is logistically and financially complicated.
Processes and workflows from in-person care don’t directly translate to the virtual setting, and a financially successful shift requires deep understanding of the factors driving patient engagement and revenue in the new normal. As such, meeting patient needs and financial goals requires robust enterprisewide analytics that drill down to the provider level.
Using Improvement Science in Healthcare to Create True ChangeHealth Catalyst
The document discusses using improvement science in healthcare to drive meaningful change. It outlines an 8-step improvement model that healthcare teams can use to understand problems, set goals, design and implement interventions, measure results, and sustain gains. The model emphasizes using data and analytics at every step to guide improvement efforts and determine their impact. Run charts are highlighted as an effective tool to measure changes in processes and outcomes over time.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
The document discusses how data visualization dashboards can maximize the value of data for healthcare organizations in three key ways: 1) Reducing time to value by providing immediate access to up-to-date insights, 2) Democratizing data by allowing all leaders to access accurate data for informed decisions, and 3) Making data more digestible through visualizations that highlight variations and outliers. Effective dashboards provide a central source of standardized data and replace manual reports, empowering data-driven decisions across all levels of leadership.
How to Run Analytics for More Actionable, Timely Insights: A Healthcare Data ...Health Catalyst
Healthcare organizations increasingly understand the value of data quality, but many lack a systematic process for establishing and maintaining that quality. However, as COVID-19 response and recovery further underscores the need for timely, actionable data, organizations must take a more proactive approach to data quality.
A structured process engages technical and subject matter expertise to define, evaluate, and monitor data quality throughout the pipeline. Health systems can follow a simple, four-level framework to measure and monitor data quality, ensuring that data is fit to drive quality data-informed decisions:
Think of data as a product.
Address structural data quality first.
Define content level data quality with subject matter experts.
Create a coalition for multidisciplinary support.
A Sustainable Healthcare Emergency Management Framework: COVID-19 and BeyondHealth Catalyst
With an ever-changing understanding of COVID-19 and a continually fluctuating disease impact, health systems can’t rely on a single, rigid plan to guide their response and recovery efforts. An effective solution is likely a flexible framework that steers hospitals and other providers through four critical phases of a communitywide healthcare emergency:
Prepare for an outbreak.
Prevent transmission.
Recover from an outbreak.
Plan for the future.
The framework must include data-supported surveillance and containment strategies to enhance detection, reduce transmission, and manage capacity and supplies, providing a roadmap to respond to immediate demands and also support a sustainable long-term pandemic response.
EHR Integration: Achieving this Digital Health ImperativeHealth Catalyst
As the digital trajectory of healthcare rises, health systems have an array of new resources available to make more effective and timely care decisions. However, to use these data analytics, machine learning, predictive analytics, and wellness applications to gain real-time, data-driven insight at the point of care, health systems must fully integrate the tools with their EHRs. Integration brings technical and administrative challenges, requiring organizations to coordinate around standards, administrative processes, regulatory principles, and functional integration, as well as develop compelling integration use cases that drive demand. When realized, full EHR integration will allow clinicians to leverage data from across the continuum of care (from health plan to patient-generated data) to improve patient diagnosis and treatment.
To Safely Restart Elective Procedures, Look to the DataHealth Catalyst
This document discusses how healthcare organizations can use data and analytics to safely restart elective procedures after suspending them due to COVID-19. It notes that the suspension led to significant financial losses and outlines how robust data infrastructure, dashboards, predictive models, and a flexible approach can help optimize resource use and guide a safe reactivation plan. Effective data tools are needed to understand opportunities and inform decisions around restarting elective surgeries and procedures.
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.
Shifting to Virtual Care in the COVID-19 Era: Analytics for Financial Success...Health Catalyst
The COVID-19 era has seen a decline in visits to ambulatory care practices by 60 percent and an estimated financial loss for primary care of over $15 billion. Shutting down elective care is financially unsustainable for health systems and for patients, who continue to need non-pandemic-related care. While virtual medicine has emerged as a viable and mutually beneficial solution for patients and providers, the shift from in-person to virtual health is logistically and financially complicated.
Processes and workflows from in-person care don’t directly translate to the virtual setting, and a financially successful shift requires deep understanding of the factors driving patient engagement and revenue in the new normal. As such, meeting patient needs and financial goals requires robust enterprisewide analytics that drill down to the provider level.
Using Improvement Science in Healthcare to Create True ChangeHealth Catalyst
The document discusses using improvement science in healthcare to drive meaningful change. It outlines an 8-step improvement model that healthcare teams can use to understand problems, set goals, design and implement interventions, measure results, and sustain gains. The model emphasizes using data and analytics at every step to guide improvement efforts and determine their impact. Run charts are highlighted as an effective tool to measure changes in processes and outcomes over time.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
The document discusses how data visualization dashboards can maximize the value of data for healthcare organizations in three key ways: 1) Reducing time to value by providing immediate access to up-to-date insights, 2) Democratizing data by allowing all leaders to access accurate data for informed decisions, and 3) Making data more digestible through visualizations that highlight variations and outliers. Effective dashboards provide a central source of standardized data and replace manual reports, empowering data-driven decisions across all levels of leadership.
How to Run Analytics for More Actionable, Timely Insights: A Healthcare Data ...Health Catalyst
Healthcare organizations increasingly understand the value of data quality, but many lack a systematic process for establishing and maintaining that quality. However, as COVID-19 response and recovery further underscores the need for timely, actionable data, organizations must take a more proactive approach to data quality.
A structured process engages technical and subject matter expertise to define, evaluate, and monitor data quality throughout the pipeline. Health systems can follow a simple, four-level framework to measure and monitor data quality, ensuring that data is fit to drive quality data-informed decisions:
Think of data as a product.
Address structural data quality first.
Define content level data quality with subject matter experts.
Create a coalition for multidisciplinary support.
A Sustainable Healthcare Emergency Management Framework: COVID-19 and BeyondHealth Catalyst
With an ever-changing understanding of COVID-19 and a continually fluctuating disease impact, health systems can’t rely on a single, rigid plan to guide their response and recovery efforts. An effective solution is likely a flexible framework that steers hospitals and other providers through four critical phases of a communitywide healthcare emergency:
Prepare for an outbreak.
Prevent transmission.
Recover from an outbreak.
Plan for the future.
The framework must include data-supported surveillance and containment strategies to enhance detection, reduce transmission, and manage capacity and supplies, providing a roadmap to respond to immediate demands and also support a sustainable long-term pandemic response.
EHR Integration: Achieving this Digital Health ImperativeHealth Catalyst
As the digital trajectory of healthcare rises, health systems have an array of new resources available to make more effective and timely care decisions. However, to use these data analytics, machine learning, predictive analytics, and wellness applications to gain real-time, data-driven insight at the point of care, health systems must fully integrate the tools with their EHRs. Integration brings technical and administrative challenges, requiring organizations to coordinate around standards, administrative processes, regulatory principles, and functional integration, as well as develop compelling integration use cases that drive demand. When realized, full EHR integration will allow clinicians to leverage data from across the continuum of care (from health plan to patient-generated data) to improve patient diagnosis and treatment.
Four Essential Ways Control Charts Guide Healthcare ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Control charts are a critical asset to any health system seeking effective, sustainable improvement. With a simple three-line format, control charts show process change over time, including the average of the data, upper control limit, and lower control limit. This insight helps improvement teams monitor projects, understand opportunities and the impact of initiatives, and sustain improved processes.
Also known as Shewhart charts or statistical process control charts, control charts drive effective improvement by addressing three fundamental questions:
1. What is the goal of the improvement project?
2. How will the organization know that a change is an improvement?
3. What change can the organization make that will result in improvement?
A 5-Step Guide for Successful Healthcare Data Warehouse OperationsHealth Catalyst
Starting and sustaining an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) for a sizeable healthcare organization might seem as challenging as, say, forming a new country. While it is an arduous undertaking, there are plenty who have gone before. In this article, one EDW operations manager shares five steps for success:
Start with a Leadership Commitment to Outcomes Improvement
Build the Right Team
Establish Effective Partnerships with IT
Develop Interest and Gain Buy-In
Pivot Toward Maintaining Success
Successfully implementing and sustaining EDW operations is about establishing and managing priorities and understanding the enterprise-wide implications.
Healthcare Relief Funding: Five Steps to Maximize COVID-19 DollarsHealth Catalyst
While federal COVID-19 relief funding for health systems sounds good in theory, many organizations have found accessing and using these monies overwhelming and frustrating. Federal guidance has been inconsistent or incomplete, and continued changes to relief packages and policies challenge organizations to develop pragmatic financial recovery strategies. Financial leaders who are confronting more questions than answers need a simple framework to move confidently into recovery.
The following five expert financial- and healthcare-based guidelines will help organizations navigate and optimize COVID-19 relief funding:
Regularly review legislative and regulatory updates and agency activity.
Make the most of what’s available.
Use required reporting as a decision-making tool.
Prepare now for the inevitable audit.
Test compliance now to eliminate headaches (or litigation) later.
Four Strategies Drive High-Value Healthcare Analytics for COVID-19 RecoveryHealth Catalyst
COVID-19 response and recovery is pushing healthcare to operate at an unprecedented level. To meet these demands and continue to improve outcomes and lower costs, healthcare analytics must perform more actionably and with broader organizational impact than ever. Health systems can follow four strategies to produce high-value analytics to withstand the pandemic and make healthcare better in the long term:
Minimize benchmarking.
Outsource regulatory reporting.
Grow risk-based stratification capabilities.
Run activity-based costing plus at-risk contracting.
How Data Transforms the Hospital Command Center to Pandemic ProportionsHealth Catalyst
Hospital command center leaders have never had to run an incident response on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas a typical emergency event (e.g., flooding, earthquakes, multivehicle collisions, or shootings) causes rapid patient influx with an identifiable starting and stopping point, the novel coronavirus has an ongoing, inestimable impact. The extensive duration, combined with high transmission risks and a massive scope of impact, demand that health systems prepare for complex facility, equipment, and staffing needs. Their best strategy is to leverage data-driven tools to scale their existing emergency response plans for COVID-19’s unprecedented proportions.
COVID-19 Data and Analytics: Survey Reveals Long- and Short-Term Healthcare I...Health Catalyst
Was COVID-19 a wake-up call to prioritize healthcare analytics and merge them with other healthcare goals? Healthcare data and analytics have become inextricable from the pandemic response, proving to the industry it can’t save lives at scale without this information and insight. In a 2021 survey of healthcare leaders and professionals, nearly 80 percent of respondents report they plan to maintain pandemic-driven data and analytics shifts for the long term. And with most respondents recognizing gaps in their data and analytics and noting COVID-19-driven changes in the data and analytics landscape, the pandemic may likely catalyze a new, more robust era in healthcare technology and decision support.
An Effective Financial Response to COVID-19: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
With COVID-19 presenting unprecedented challenges, health systems are struggling to financially survive. With little data about the novel coronavirus, traditional financial approaches that rely on historical information are not sufficient. However, organizations can get back on the road to financial recovery and well-being by practicing three key strategies centered around data:
Prioritize access to real-time data.
Understand data at a deeper level.
Realize margin and cost by service line.
Leveraging data allows financial healthcare leaders to effectively manage the COVID-19 challenges and prepare their health systems for future obstacles.
Innovative Healthcare Partnerships: Making the Most of Merging Resources and ...Health Catalyst
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions performed solidly in 2020, despite the downturn in the U.S. economy and healthcare in general. Organizations responded to new challenges by partnering with each other to build core business strengths, address gaps in care delivery the pandemic exposed, and enhance their resources to navigate current and future crises.
Realizing the potential of emerging healthcare partnerships requires an open and scalable analytics infrastructure plus a cultural and contractual openness to allow innovation to flourish. Organizations that have adopted an open analytics platform have the data operating advantage to form partnerships, efficiently and smoothly bring best-of-breed solutions to market, and enable the innovative potential of collaborations.
ACOs: Four Ways Technology Contributes to SuccessHealth Catalyst
With an increasing emphasis on value-based care, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are here to stay. In an ACO, healthcare providers and hospitals come together with the shared goals of reducing costs and increasing patient satisfaction by providing high-quality coordinated healthcare to Medicare patients. However, many ACOs lack direction and experience difficulty understanding how to use data to improve care. Implementing a robust data analytics system to automate the process of data gathering and analysis as well as aligning data with ACO quality reporting measures. The article walks through four keys to effectively implementing technology for ACO success:
Build a data repository with an analytics platform.
Bring data to the point of care.
Analyze claims data, identify outliers, including successes and failures.
Combine clinical claims, and quality data to identify opportunities for improvement.
Putting Patients Back at the Center of Healthcare: How CMS Measures Prioritiz...Health Catalyst
Today’s healthcare encounters are too often marked by more clinician screen time than patient-clinician engagement. Increasing regulatory reporting burdens are diverting clinician attention from their true priority—the patient. To put patients back at the center of care, CMS introduced its Meaningful Measures framework in 2017. The initiative identifies the highest priorities for quality measurement and improvement, with the goal of aligning measures with CMS strategic goals, including the following:
Empowering patients and clinicians to make decisions about their healthcare.
Supporting innovative approaches to improve quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability.
Health Catalyst Launches COVID-19 Patient Data Repository to Speed Vaccine De...Health Catalyst
With a lack of historical population-based information to steer COVID-19 research, pharmaceutical companies are struggling to understand the everchanging virus as they work tirelessly to develop a vaccine in less than one year. Research teams can access near real-time COVID-19 patient data with Touchstone® for COVID-19 National Data Sets and Registry from over 80 million patients across the United States and three national data sources: John Hopkins University, The New York Times, and The COVID Tracking Project.
The Registry offers up-to-date, comprehensive data with outcome analysis and clinical trial analysis so research teams can stay up to date through every stage of the vaccine development process.
Expanding AI in Healthcare: Introducing the New Healthcare.AI™ by Health Cata...Health Catalyst
Healthcare leaders face an unprecedented amount of critical business issues across revenue, cost, and quality. In response, many business and analytics leaders are trying to integrate AI (augmented intelligence) into their analytics processes to better address these critical issues. Leaders have struggled to integrate AI into current tools, integrate or change workflows, and demonstrate a positive impact of AI. We have learned from our first release of Healthcare.ai years ago that it is not enough to have a technically solid, self-service engine for generating and deploying predictive models at the point of care. A more comprehensive approach is needed to successfully use AI.
The New Healthcare.AI offering from Health Catalyst is a transformational suite of products and expert services that address the wider array of critical business issues. Healthcare.AI dramatically broadens the use and uses cases for effective AI within your organization. Join Jason Jones, Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer, as he shares tools and approaches to serve a growing breadth of stakeholders needing faster turnaround and smaller margins for error.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to expand the use cases where AI is applied.
- How to integrate AI into everyday workflow and decisions.
- How to increase your success rate in AI adoption.
Achieve Data-Informed Healthcare in Eight StepsHealth Catalyst
Becoming a data-informed healthcare system starts with raw data and ends with meaningful change, driven by raw data. Health systems can follow an eight-step analytics ascension model to transform data into intelligence:
Population Identification and Stratification
Measurement
Data
Information
Knowledge
Insight
Wisdom
Action
Following the analytics ascension model allows improvement teams to avoid feeling overwhelmed, focus on each step, and see how each step fits into the overall objective, allowing health systems to maximize data.
Three Must-Haves for a Successful Healthcare Data StrategyHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is confronting rising costs, aging and growing populations, an increasing focus on population health, alternative payment models, and other challenges as the industry shifts from volume to value. These obstacles drive a growing need for more digitization, accompanied by a data-centric improvement strategy.
To establish and maintain data as a primary strategy that guides clinical, financial, and operational transformation, organizations must have three systems in place:
Best practices to identify target behaviors and practices.
Analytics to accelerate improvement and identify gaps between best practices and analytic results.
Adoption processes to outline the path to transformation.
Machine Learning in Healthcare: What C-Suite Executives Must Know to Use it E...Health Catalyst
Machine learning (ML) is gaining in popularity throughout healthcare. ML’s far-reaching benefits, from automating routine clinical tasks to providing visibility into which appointments are likely to no-show, make it a must-have in an industry that’s hyper focused on improving patient and operational outcomes.
This executive report—co-written by Microsoft Worldwide Health and Health Catalyst—is a basic guide to training machine learning algorithms and applying machine learning models to clinical and operational use case. This report shares practical, proven techniques healthcare organizations can use to improve their performance on a range of issues.
Bridging the Data and Trust Gaps: Why Health Catalyst Entered the Life Scienc...Health Catalyst
Why would a healthcare data warehousing and analytics company partner with the life sciences industry? Because trust and collaboration across the industry—between life sciences, healthcare delivery systems, and insurance—is the only path to real healthcare transformation.
Health Catalyst recognizes an industrywide improvement opportunity in collaborating with life sciences to build mutual trust, integrate data, and leverage analytics insights for a common interest (i.e., patient outcomes). By aligning themselves around human health fulfillment, Health Catalyst, their provider partners, and life sciences will advance important healthcare goals:
Improving clinical trial design and execution.
Stimulating clinical innovation.
Supporting population health.
Reducing pharmaceutical costs.
Improving drug safety and pharmacovigilance.
How to Run Your Healthcare Analytics Operation Like a BusinessHealth Catalyst
A robust data analytics operation is necessary for healthcare systems’ survival. Just like any business, the analytics enterprise needs to be well managed using the principles of successful business operations.
This article walks through how to run an analytics operation like a business using the following five-question framework:
Who does the analytics team serve and what are those customers trying to do?
What services does the analytics team provide to help customers accomplish their goals?
How does the analytics team know they’re doing a great job and how do they communicate that effectively to the leadership team?
What is the most efficient way to provide analytics services?
What is the most effective way to organize?
A Healthcare Digitization Framework: 5 StrategiesHealth Catalyst
While most consumer-oriented industries have turned to mobile-first, cloud-based platforms for consumer interaction, healthcare lags behind in digitization, particularly when it comes to self-service consumer engagement. As digital consumer interaction increasingly drives enterprise success, healthcare must join the modern digital playing field. To get there, organizations need to establish digital investment and enablement frameworks and can then follow five strategies for stable, scalable transformation:
Formally define “digital” for the organization.
Follow 10 guiding principles to support digital.
Divide technology into appropriate portfolios.
Develop an analogy to explain the integrated portfolio approach.
Strategically select vendor partners.
The Epicenter Of The Pandemic: Driving Transformation At Northwell HealthHealth Catalyst
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic materially amplified Northwell Health’s necessary speed from question to answer. At the peak of the pandemic, Northwell, one of the hardest hit healthcare systems in the United States, had to manage an evolving cohort definition for COVID-19, an additional 200 beds daily, and new healthcare professionals from across the country. Navigating this crisis required careful planning, communication, coordination, and research, which necessitated unprecedented collaboration, an extensive patient registry, access to key datasets, geocoding, and serology testing. Learn about the data-driven response Northwell Health implemented from day one of the pandemic, the successes and lessons learned, and how organizations can use technology and analytics for future infection tracking and patient care.
During this webinar, Chris Hutchins, Vice President, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Northwell Health, offers the following:
- Share strategies to navigate COVID-19.
- Identify how to use data marts to drive self-service analytics.
- Delve into strategies to drive transformation.
- Help you understand why you should design a flexible model for a cohort definition.
- Explain how to align critical resources to enable rapid response.
Deliver a First-Class Patient Experience with Five Financial TacticsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations continually strive to improve each patient’s experience to ensure quality care delivery and qualify for financial reimbursements. Health systems try to optimize the patient experience through traditional methods, including better access and appointment reminders. However, organizations can improve the patient journey and deliver a first-class experience by taking a different approach—by targeting the following five aspects of the billings and collections process, providers can proactively inform patients about their financial expectations and avoid surprise bills:
1. Pricing strategy.
2. Charge description master management.
3. Real-time eligibility verification.
4. Patient cost estimation.
5. Propensity to pay.
Eight Reasons Why Chief Data Officers Will Help Healthcare Organizations Thri...Health Catalyst
The state of healthcare information technology and analytics has evolved to the point where a revised executive structure is advisable in the C-suite. This new structure calls for a Chief Data Officer (CDO) to focus on extracting data from systems and on mining value from that data, rather than getting data into systems, which is the responsibility of the CIO.
This article makes the case for the CDO, explains how the need for this emerging role evolved, outlines its responsibilities, advises on how to recruit and budget for this position, and details its domain in eight critical business areas:
Governance and standards
Managing risk
Reducing costs
Driving innovation
Data architecture and technology
Data analytics
Meeting regulatory demand
Creating business value
Transforming Healthcare Analytics: Five Critical StepsHealth Catalyst
By committing to transforming healthcare analytics, organizations can eventually save hundreds of millions of dollars (depending on their size) and achieve comprehensive outcomes improvement. The transformation helps organizations achieve the analytics efficiency needed to navigate the complex healthcare landscape of technology, regulatory, and financial challenges and the challenges of value-based care.
To achieve analytics transformation and ROI within a short timeframe, organizations can follow five phases to become data driven:
Establish a data-driven culture.
Acquire and access data.
Establish data stewardship.
Establish data quality.
Spread data use.
Four Essential Ways Control Charts Guide Healthcare ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Control charts are a critical asset to any health system seeking effective, sustainable improvement. With a simple three-line format, control charts show process change over time, including the average of the data, upper control limit, and lower control limit. This insight helps improvement teams monitor projects, understand opportunities and the impact of initiatives, and sustain improved processes.
Also known as Shewhart charts or statistical process control charts, control charts drive effective improvement by addressing three fundamental questions:
1. What is the goal of the improvement project?
2. How will the organization know that a change is an improvement?
3. What change can the organization make that will result in improvement?
A 5-Step Guide for Successful Healthcare Data Warehouse OperationsHealth Catalyst
Starting and sustaining an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) for a sizeable healthcare organization might seem as challenging as, say, forming a new country. While it is an arduous undertaking, there are plenty who have gone before. In this article, one EDW operations manager shares five steps for success:
Start with a Leadership Commitment to Outcomes Improvement
Build the Right Team
Establish Effective Partnerships with IT
Develop Interest and Gain Buy-In
Pivot Toward Maintaining Success
Successfully implementing and sustaining EDW operations is about establishing and managing priorities and understanding the enterprise-wide implications.
Healthcare Relief Funding: Five Steps to Maximize COVID-19 DollarsHealth Catalyst
While federal COVID-19 relief funding for health systems sounds good in theory, many organizations have found accessing and using these monies overwhelming and frustrating. Federal guidance has been inconsistent or incomplete, and continued changes to relief packages and policies challenge organizations to develop pragmatic financial recovery strategies. Financial leaders who are confronting more questions than answers need a simple framework to move confidently into recovery.
The following five expert financial- and healthcare-based guidelines will help organizations navigate and optimize COVID-19 relief funding:
Regularly review legislative and regulatory updates and agency activity.
Make the most of what’s available.
Use required reporting as a decision-making tool.
Prepare now for the inevitable audit.
Test compliance now to eliminate headaches (or litigation) later.
Four Strategies Drive High-Value Healthcare Analytics for COVID-19 RecoveryHealth Catalyst
COVID-19 response and recovery is pushing healthcare to operate at an unprecedented level. To meet these demands and continue to improve outcomes and lower costs, healthcare analytics must perform more actionably and with broader organizational impact than ever. Health systems can follow four strategies to produce high-value analytics to withstand the pandemic and make healthcare better in the long term:
Minimize benchmarking.
Outsource regulatory reporting.
Grow risk-based stratification capabilities.
Run activity-based costing plus at-risk contracting.
How Data Transforms the Hospital Command Center to Pandemic ProportionsHealth Catalyst
Hospital command center leaders have never had to run an incident response on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas a typical emergency event (e.g., flooding, earthquakes, multivehicle collisions, or shootings) causes rapid patient influx with an identifiable starting and stopping point, the novel coronavirus has an ongoing, inestimable impact. The extensive duration, combined with high transmission risks and a massive scope of impact, demand that health systems prepare for complex facility, equipment, and staffing needs. Their best strategy is to leverage data-driven tools to scale their existing emergency response plans for COVID-19’s unprecedented proportions.
COVID-19 Data and Analytics: Survey Reveals Long- and Short-Term Healthcare I...Health Catalyst
Was COVID-19 a wake-up call to prioritize healthcare analytics and merge them with other healthcare goals? Healthcare data and analytics have become inextricable from the pandemic response, proving to the industry it can’t save lives at scale without this information and insight. In a 2021 survey of healthcare leaders and professionals, nearly 80 percent of respondents report they plan to maintain pandemic-driven data and analytics shifts for the long term. And with most respondents recognizing gaps in their data and analytics and noting COVID-19-driven changes in the data and analytics landscape, the pandemic may likely catalyze a new, more robust era in healthcare technology and decision support.
An Effective Financial Response to COVID-19: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
With COVID-19 presenting unprecedented challenges, health systems are struggling to financially survive. With little data about the novel coronavirus, traditional financial approaches that rely on historical information are not sufficient. However, organizations can get back on the road to financial recovery and well-being by practicing three key strategies centered around data:
Prioritize access to real-time data.
Understand data at a deeper level.
Realize margin and cost by service line.
Leveraging data allows financial healthcare leaders to effectively manage the COVID-19 challenges and prepare their health systems for future obstacles.
Innovative Healthcare Partnerships: Making the Most of Merging Resources and ...Health Catalyst
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions performed solidly in 2020, despite the downturn in the U.S. economy and healthcare in general. Organizations responded to new challenges by partnering with each other to build core business strengths, address gaps in care delivery the pandemic exposed, and enhance their resources to navigate current and future crises.
Realizing the potential of emerging healthcare partnerships requires an open and scalable analytics infrastructure plus a cultural and contractual openness to allow innovation to flourish. Organizations that have adopted an open analytics platform have the data operating advantage to form partnerships, efficiently and smoothly bring best-of-breed solutions to market, and enable the innovative potential of collaborations.
ACOs: Four Ways Technology Contributes to SuccessHealth Catalyst
With an increasing emphasis on value-based care, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are here to stay. In an ACO, healthcare providers and hospitals come together with the shared goals of reducing costs and increasing patient satisfaction by providing high-quality coordinated healthcare to Medicare patients. However, many ACOs lack direction and experience difficulty understanding how to use data to improve care. Implementing a robust data analytics system to automate the process of data gathering and analysis as well as aligning data with ACO quality reporting measures. The article walks through four keys to effectively implementing technology for ACO success:
Build a data repository with an analytics platform.
Bring data to the point of care.
Analyze claims data, identify outliers, including successes and failures.
Combine clinical claims, and quality data to identify opportunities for improvement.
Putting Patients Back at the Center of Healthcare: How CMS Measures Prioritiz...Health Catalyst
Today’s healthcare encounters are too often marked by more clinician screen time than patient-clinician engagement. Increasing regulatory reporting burdens are diverting clinician attention from their true priority—the patient. To put patients back at the center of care, CMS introduced its Meaningful Measures framework in 2017. The initiative identifies the highest priorities for quality measurement and improvement, with the goal of aligning measures with CMS strategic goals, including the following:
Empowering patients and clinicians to make decisions about their healthcare.
Supporting innovative approaches to improve quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability.
Health Catalyst Launches COVID-19 Patient Data Repository to Speed Vaccine De...Health Catalyst
With a lack of historical population-based information to steer COVID-19 research, pharmaceutical companies are struggling to understand the everchanging virus as they work tirelessly to develop a vaccine in less than one year. Research teams can access near real-time COVID-19 patient data with Touchstone® for COVID-19 National Data Sets and Registry from over 80 million patients across the United States and three national data sources: John Hopkins University, The New York Times, and The COVID Tracking Project.
The Registry offers up-to-date, comprehensive data with outcome analysis and clinical trial analysis so research teams can stay up to date through every stage of the vaccine development process.
Expanding AI in Healthcare: Introducing the New Healthcare.AI™ by Health Cata...Health Catalyst
Healthcare leaders face an unprecedented amount of critical business issues across revenue, cost, and quality. In response, many business and analytics leaders are trying to integrate AI (augmented intelligence) into their analytics processes to better address these critical issues. Leaders have struggled to integrate AI into current tools, integrate or change workflows, and demonstrate a positive impact of AI. We have learned from our first release of Healthcare.ai years ago that it is not enough to have a technically solid, self-service engine for generating and deploying predictive models at the point of care. A more comprehensive approach is needed to successfully use AI.
The New Healthcare.AI offering from Health Catalyst is a transformational suite of products and expert services that address the wider array of critical business issues. Healthcare.AI dramatically broadens the use and uses cases for effective AI within your organization. Join Jason Jones, Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer, as he shares tools and approaches to serve a growing breadth of stakeholders needing faster turnaround and smaller margins for error.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to expand the use cases where AI is applied.
- How to integrate AI into everyday workflow and decisions.
- How to increase your success rate in AI adoption.
Achieve Data-Informed Healthcare in Eight StepsHealth Catalyst
Becoming a data-informed healthcare system starts with raw data and ends with meaningful change, driven by raw data. Health systems can follow an eight-step analytics ascension model to transform data into intelligence:
Population Identification and Stratification
Measurement
Data
Information
Knowledge
Insight
Wisdom
Action
Following the analytics ascension model allows improvement teams to avoid feeling overwhelmed, focus on each step, and see how each step fits into the overall objective, allowing health systems to maximize data.
Three Must-Haves for a Successful Healthcare Data StrategyHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is confronting rising costs, aging and growing populations, an increasing focus on population health, alternative payment models, and other challenges as the industry shifts from volume to value. These obstacles drive a growing need for more digitization, accompanied by a data-centric improvement strategy.
To establish and maintain data as a primary strategy that guides clinical, financial, and operational transformation, organizations must have three systems in place:
Best practices to identify target behaviors and practices.
Analytics to accelerate improvement and identify gaps between best practices and analytic results.
Adoption processes to outline the path to transformation.
Machine Learning in Healthcare: What C-Suite Executives Must Know to Use it E...Health Catalyst
Machine learning (ML) is gaining in popularity throughout healthcare. ML’s far-reaching benefits, from automating routine clinical tasks to providing visibility into which appointments are likely to no-show, make it a must-have in an industry that’s hyper focused on improving patient and operational outcomes.
This executive report—co-written by Microsoft Worldwide Health and Health Catalyst—is a basic guide to training machine learning algorithms and applying machine learning models to clinical and operational use case. This report shares practical, proven techniques healthcare organizations can use to improve their performance on a range of issues.
Bridging the Data and Trust Gaps: Why Health Catalyst Entered the Life Scienc...Health Catalyst
Why would a healthcare data warehousing and analytics company partner with the life sciences industry? Because trust and collaboration across the industry—between life sciences, healthcare delivery systems, and insurance—is the only path to real healthcare transformation.
Health Catalyst recognizes an industrywide improvement opportunity in collaborating with life sciences to build mutual trust, integrate data, and leverage analytics insights for a common interest (i.e., patient outcomes). By aligning themselves around human health fulfillment, Health Catalyst, their provider partners, and life sciences will advance important healthcare goals:
Improving clinical trial design and execution.
Stimulating clinical innovation.
Supporting population health.
Reducing pharmaceutical costs.
Improving drug safety and pharmacovigilance.
How to Run Your Healthcare Analytics Operation Like a BusinessHealth Catalyst
A robust data analytics operation is necessary for healthcare systems’ survival. Just like any business, the analytics enterprise needs to be well managed using the principles of successful business operations.
This article walks through how to run an analytics operation like a business using the following five-question framework:
Who does the analytics team serve and what are those customers trying to do?
What services does the analytics team provide to help customers accomplish their goals?
How does the analytics team know they’re doing a great job and how do they communicate that effectively to the leadership team?
What is the most efficient way to provide analytics services?
What is the most effective way to organize?
A Healthcare Digitization Framework: 5 StrategiesHealth Catalyst
While most consumer-oriented industries have turned to mobile-first, cloud-based platforms for consumer interaction, healthcare lags behind in digitization, particularly when it comes to self-service consumer engagement. As digital consumer interaction increasingly drives enterprise success, healthcare must join the modern digital playing field. To get there, organizations need to establish digital investment and enablement frameworks and can then follow five strategies for stable, scalable transformation:
Formally define “digital” for the organization.
Follow 10 guiding principles to support digital.
Divide technology into appropriate portfolios.
Develop an analogy to explain the integrated portfolio approach.
Strategically select vendor partners.
The Epicenter Of The Pandemic: Driving Transformation At Northwell HealthHealth Catalyst
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic materially amplified Northwell Health’s necessary speed from question to answer. At the peak of the pandemic, Northwell, one of the hardest hit healthcare systems in the United States, had to manage an evolving cohort definition for COVID-19, an additional 200 beds daily, and new healthcare professionals from across the country. Navigating this crisis required careful planning, communication, coordination, and research, which necessitated unprecedented collaboration, an extensive patient registry, access to key datasets, geocoding, and serology testing. Learn about the data-driven response Northwell Health implemented from day one of the pandemic, the successes and lessons learned, and how organizations can use technology and analytics for future infection tracking and patient care.
During this webinar, Chris Hutchins, Vice President, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Northwell Health, offers the following:
- Share strategies to navigate COVID-19.
- Identify how to use data marts to drive self-service analytics.
- Delve into strategies to drive transformation.
- Help you understand why you should design a flexible model for a cohort definition.
- Explain how to align critical resources to enable rapid response.
Deliver a First-Class Patient Experience with Five Financial TacticsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations continually strive to improve each patient’s experience to ensure quality care delivery and qualify for financial reimbursements. Health systems try to optimize the patient experience through traditional methods, including better access and appointment reminders. However, organizations can improve the patient journey and deliver a first-class experience by taking a different approach—by targeting the following five aspects of the billings and collections process, providers can proactively inform patients about their financial expectations and avoid surprise bills:
1. Pricing strategy.
2. Charge description master management.
3. Real-time eligibility verification.
4. Patient cost estimation.
5. Propensity to pay.
Eight Reasons Why Chief Data Officers Will Help Healthcare Organizations Thri...Health Catalyst
The state of healthcare information technology and analytics has evolved to the point where a revised executive structure is advisable in the C-suite. This new structure calls for a Chief Data Officer (CDO) to focus on extracting data from systems and on mining value from that data, rather than getting data into systems, which is the responsibility of the CIO.
This article makes the case for the CDO, explains how the need for this emerging role evolved, outlines its responsibilities, advises on how to recruit and budget for this position, and details its domain in eight critical business areas:
Governance and standards
Managing risk
Reducing costs
Driving innovation
Data architecture and technology
Data analytics
Meeting regulatory demand
Creating business value
Transforming Healthcare Analytics: Five Critical StepsHealth Catalyst
By committing to transforming healthcare analytics, organizations can eventually save hundreds of millions of dollars (depending on their size) and achieve comprehensive outcomes improvement. The transformation helps organizations achieve the analytics efficiency needed to navigate the complex healthcare landscape of technology, regulatory, and financial challenges and the challenges of value-based care.
To achieve analytics transformation and ROI within a short timeframe, organizations can follow five phases to become data driven:
Establish a data-driven culture.
Acquire and access data.
Establish data stewardship.
Establish data quality.
Spread data use.
Prioritizing Healthcare Projects to Optimize ROIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations have long relied on traditional benchmarking to compare their performance to others and determine where they can do better; however, to identify the highest ROI improvement opportunities and understand how to take action, organizations need more comprehensive data.
Next-generation opportunity analysis tools, such as Health Catalyst® Touchstone™, use machine learning to identify projects with the greatest need for improvement and the greatest potential ROI. Because Touchstone determines prioritization with data from across the continuum of care, users can drive improvement decisions with information appropriate to their patient population and the domains they’re addressing.
How to Increase Cash Flow Using Data and AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
In today’s challenging environment, healthcare leaders must seek opportunities to boost revenue through improved financial performance and reimbursement. Some common strategies include reducing the number of outstanding bill hold accounts, reducing A/R days, and managing discharged not final billed (DNFB) cases.
This article tackles, the following topics:
Common reasons accounts remain unbilled.
Identifying opportunities for improvement.
Using data analytics and process improvement to achieve financial goals.
Creating lasting improvements.
How to Build a Healthcare Analytics Team and Solve Strategic ProblemsHealth Catalyst
Health systems have vast amounts of data, but frequently struggle to use that data to solve strategic problems in a timely fashion. A healthcare analytics team, made up of the right people with the right tools and skillsets, can help address these challenges. This article walks through the steps organizations need to take to put an effective analytics team in place. These include the following:
Recognizing the need for change.
Demonstrating the value of an analytics team.
Conducting a current state assessment.
Identifying solutions.
Implementing a phased approach.
Building a roadmap.
Making the pitch.
Putting the roadmap into action.
The article also includes the foundation skills to look for when putting together the team and tips on how best to organize.
Four Keys to Increase Healthcare Market ShareHealth Catalyst
With leadership alignment, easy access to data, and a roadmap to reach their objectives, health systems can drastically increase revenue and grow market share by applying four principles:
Key 1. Alignment.
Key 2. Vehicles.
Key 3: Five tools: access to data, data acumen; finance, vision to execution, and prioritizing outcomes.
Key 4: Education.
Access to the right data can drive changes that generate $48M in revenue, surpassing the year three market share goals in year two.
Leveraging Technology to Increase Patient Satisfaction and Employee EngagementHealth Catalyst
Health systems are challenged by the need to keep patients and employees satisfied and engaged. This can be especially difficult for organizations in flux, growing, merging, and changing. And as leaders of these organizations know, poor patient satisfaction ratings lead to reduced reimbursements, which affect the bottom line.
To meet this challenge and improve patient satisfaction, health system leaders are taking advantage of technology, such as rounding software, that supports effective communication and drives the type of culture change that boosts both caregiver and patient satisfaction and encourages engagement. Embedding rounding technology into current processes makes rounding better and easier. The correlation between effective, efficient rounding and high patient satisfaction scores is clear. Rounding can and does increase engagement and satisfaction, which in turn leads to higher reimbursement potential. Learn how health system leaders can move from talking about rounding technology to incorporating it into daily workflow.
Prescriptions for Healthcare's Digital CIOsCognizant
This document discusses the changing role of healthcare CIOs as the industry undergoes digital transformation. It finds that CIOs must take on new roles like chief integration officer to help their organizations adopt digital capabilities. The top driver for digital adoption is improving the patient experience. CIOs must partner closely with CMOs, as marketing owns the digital customer experience. However, CIOs have unique expertise in integrating legacy systems and data that is critical for digital initiatives. Overcoming barriers like limited budgets and legacy systems will require CIO leadership.
The Missing Ingredient in Healthcare Analytics: The Executive SponsorHealth Catalyst
The document discusses the importance of executive sponsorship for healthcare analytics programs. It argues that having the right executive sponsor, who is a high-level member of the C-suite, strongly correlates with the success of an analytics program. An effective sponsor understands the strategic value of data, can promote the analytics program across the organization, and ensures it has the resources needed to achieve goals like improved clinical outcomes. Selecting the appropriate executive sponsor is identified as a key factor for organizations to leverage data as a strategic asset.
Effective Healthcare Decision Support for Executives: Three Problems that Lea...Health Catalyst
In the high-pressured world of value-based care, healthcare leadership is more important than ever. Leaders need to make data-driven decisions and respond to the increasing demands of patients while cutting costs.
The right tools–ones that support today’s outcome-focused healthcare environment–can help leaders break through the noise to make effective decisions. This article shares three common problems faced by healthcare leadership and how Leading Wisely, an executive decision support tool helps them make informed decisions and guide their organizations forward. Three effective strategies for healthcare leadership include:
How to prevent communication breakdown.
How to break through measure madness.
How to alleviate information overload and siloed reporting.
A Healthcare Mergers Framework: How to Accelerate the BenefitsHealth Catalyst
Health system mergers can promise significant savings for participating organizations. Research, however, indicates as much as a tenfold gap between expectation and reality, with systems looking for a savings of 15 percent but more likely to realize savings around 1.5 percent.
Driving the merger expectation-reality disparity is a complex process that, without diligent preparation and strategy, makes it difficult for organizations to fully leverage cost synergies. With the right framework, however, health systems can achieve the process management, data sharing, and governance structure to align leadership, clinicians, and all stakeholders around merger goals.
How Healthcare Cost-Per-Case Improvements Deliver Big Bottom-Line SavingsHealth Catalyst
The document discusses how healthcare organizations can improve cost-per-case and deliver significant cost savings through quality improvement initiatives. It outlines that the best strategies start with reducing clinical variation through identifying high-cost outliers. While providers may be resistant to added work, starting with smaller, quicker projects can help build momentum and trust. Accuracy of costing data is also important for success. The document provides examples of smaller initial projects and emphasizes the importance of sustaining improvements long-term.
PCD Partners is a healthcare consulting firm comprised of physicians, academics, and entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clinical practice improvement, quality management, and healthcare administration. They were formed to apply their collective expertise to challenges facing physicians and hospitals. PCD Partners delivers expertise in areas such as data management, clinical processes, quality standards, and process optimization to help healthcare organizations improve efficiency, quality, and outcomes. Their approach involves aligning stakeholders, measuring the right quality variables, and improving operations through standardized tools and methodologies like Lean Six Sigma.
Activity-Based Costing in Healthcare During COVID-19: Meeting Four Critical N...Health Catalyst
As health systems increasingly transition to a value-based care model, the financial strains and uncertainty of COVID-19 have placed more urgency on cost management. More than ever, organizations need a costing solution that helps them understand the true value of their services. With the right next-generation activity-based costing (ABC) tool, health systems can access the detailed data they need to lower the cost of care, automate costing activities, and reduce administrative costs while preparing for the mounting intricacy of the post-pandemic setting.
Activity-based costing meets healthcare’s complex COVID-19-era costing needs by addressing four big challenges:
Data management.
Scalability.
Ongoing maintenance.
Adoption.
The traditional decision journey of patients and doctors is being disrupted by digital technologies. Patients and doctors are increasingly using digital tools to research treatments and connect with peers. This rapid adoption of technology has caught healthcare businesses off guard. For pharmaceutical companies to succeed in this new digital environment, they need to undergo a digital transformation that involves realigning business models, technologies, and processes around customer value. However, the biggest challenge for companies is not adopting new technologies, but changing internal mindsets to think digitally. Companies must establish new digital ecosystems and take a long term innovative approach to digital strategies.
Linking Clinical and Financial Data: The Key to Real Quality and Cost Outcome...Health Catalyst
Since accountable care took the healthcare industry by a storm in 2010, health systems have had to move from their predictable revenue streams based on volume to a model that includes quality measures. While the switch will ultimately improve both quality and cost outcomes, health systems now need the capability of tracking and analyzing the data from both clinical and financial systems. A late-binding enterprise data warehouse provides the flexible architecture that makes it possible to liberate both kinds of data to link it together to provide a full picture of trends and opportunities.
Healthcare Information Systems - Past, Present, and FutureHealth Catalyst
The document discusses the evolution of healthcare information systems from the 1960s to present day. It begins with early systems focused on hospital accounting and administrative functions. Over time, systems expanded to support clinical departments, integrated hospital operations, and began incorporating patient data. The proliferation of these transaction systems created large amounts of siloed healthcare data. Today, chief information officers are under pressure to implement enterprise analytics solutions to merge this data and drive performance improvement through analysis of comprehensive clinical and operational information.
This document summarizes key issues facing hospitals as the healthcare industry consolidates. Large integrated regional health systems will dominate as payment shifts from volume to value. Community hospitals must determine whether to remain independent or affiliate through acquisition or merger. The first step is an objective analysis of strengths, weaknesses, and market position. Scenario planning is also essential to contemplate potential paths. Cultural fit is important for successful consolidation deals. Engaging local stakeholders can help independent hospitals remain viable in their communities.
Many healthcare organizations seem to have been in perpetual pilot stage while experimenting with value-based payment models. Healthcare organizations are focusing their efforts in two primary areas: developing the skills to successfully manage at-risk contracts and, preparing for the considerable business and care delivery transformation necessary for true population health management. But what are the foundational competencies needed to take on risk? Healthcare organizations should consider the following 5 key areas: 1) at-risk contract management, 2) network management, 3) care management, 4) performance monitoring, and 5) improvement prioritization. The value of analytics in each of these competency areas is to prioritize limited resources on the highest impact area.
6 Steps for Implementing Successful Performance Improvement Initiatives in He...Health Catalyst
This document outlines six steps for implementing successful performance improvement initiatives in healthcare. It discusses establishing an analytics system to identify opportunities, prioritizing programs, defining permanent improvement teams, using a content system to define outcomes and interventions, and estimating return on investment. The goal is to provide a framework for sustainable performance gains through integrating improvement into strategy, using data analytics, deploying changes, and establishing ongoing monitoring teams.
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Empowering ACOs: Leveraging Quality Management Tools for MIPS and BeyondHealth Catalyst
Join us as we delve into the crucial realm of quality reporting for MSSP (Medicare Shared Savings Program) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
In this session, we will explore how a robust quality management solution can empower your organization to meet regulatory requirements and improve processes for MIPS reporting and internal quality programs. Learn how our MeasureAble application enables compliance and fosters continuous improvement.
Unlock the Secrets to Optimizing Ambulatory Operations Efficiency and Change ...Health Catalyst
Today’s healthcare leaders are seeking technology solutions to optimize efficiencies and improve patient care. However, without effective change management and strategies in place, healthcare leaders struggle to strategically improve patient flow, space, to strategically improve patient flow, space, and schedule management, and implement daily huddles. The role of technology in supporting operational efficiency and change management initiatives is inevitable.
During this webinar, attendees will learn how to optimize Ambulatory Operational Efficiencies and Change Management. Attendees will also learn about the importance of visual management boards in enhancing clinic performance and insights into effective change management approaches.
Patient expectations are rising, and organizations are continuously being asked to do more with less.
Additionally, the convergence of several significant emerging market and policy trends, economic uncertainty, labor force shortages, and the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency has created a unique set of challenges for healthcare organizations.
Attend this timely webinar to learn about new trends and their impact on key healthcare issues, such as patient engagement, migration to value-based care, analytics adoption, the use of alternative care sites, and data governance and management challenges.
During this webinar, we will discuss the complexities of AI, trends, and platforms in the industry. Dive deep into understanding the true essence of AI, exploring its potential, real-world use cases, and common misconceptions. Gain valuable insights into the latest technology trends impacting healthcare and discover strategies for maximizing ROI in your technology investments.
Explore the profound impact of data literacy on healthcare organizations and how it shapes the utilization of data and technology for transformative outcomes. Understand the top technology priorities for healthcare organizations and learn how to navigate the digital landscape effectively. Furthermore, simplify industry jargon by defining common data elements, fostering clearer communication and collaboration across stakeholders.
Finally, uncover the transformative potentials of platforms in healthcare and how they can revolutionize scalability, interoperability, and innovation within your organization. Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights from industry experts and stay ahead in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. Reserve your spot now for an enlightening journey into the future of healthcare technology!
Three Keys to a Successful Margin: Charges, Costs, and LaborHealth Catalyst
How can cost management and complete charge capture protect and enhance the margin?
In this webinar, we will look at 2024 margin pressures likely to impact your organization’s financial resiliency. This presentation will also share how organizations can move from Fee-for-Service to Value; bringing Cost to the forefront.
2024 CPT® Updates (Professional Services Focused) - Part 3Health Catalyst
Each year the CPT code set undergoes significant changes. Physicians and their office staff need to be aware of the changes in order to ensure a smooth transition into 2024. Join us for a discussion of the new, deleted and revised CPT codes and associated guidelines for 2024. This presentation will focus on the changes to the CPT dataset and the associated work RVU value changes that impact professional service reporting.
During this complimentary webinar, we will empower you to correctly apply the new and revised codes and discuss the rationale behind this year’s changes. You will leave with an understanding of the financial implications of the changes on your practice.
2024 CPT® Code Updates (HIM Focused) - Part 2Health Catalyst
Each year the CPT code set and the HCPCS code set undergo significant changes, and your coding staff needs to be aware of the changes in order to ensure a smooth transition into 2024. Join us for a discussion of the new, deleted and revised CPT codes and associated guidelines for 2024. This is part two in a three-part series.
During these complimentary webinars, we will empower you to correctly apply the new and revised codes and discuss the rationale behind this year’s changes. This presentation will be geared towards hospital staff with a focus on the surgical section of the CPT book in addition to surgical Category III codes.
2024 CPT® Code Updates (CDM Focused) - Part 1Health Catalyst
The document provides an overview of changes to CPT codes that will take effect in 2024, with a focus on changes relevant to clinical documentation. Key points include:
- There are 145 total codes added, 34 deleted, and 55 revised across various sections.
- Changes are provided for the Radiology, Laboratory/Pathology, and Category III sections. New codes are added for things like non-invasive coronary FFR estimation using AI and various intraoperative ultrasound exams.
- Guidelines are established for new genomic sequencing procedures codes focusing on solid organ and hematolymphoid neoplasms. Definitions are also provided for various genomic analysis techniques.
- Several Tier I and Tier II molecular
What’s Next for Hospital Price Transparency in 2024 and BeyondHealth Catalyst
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published updates to the hospital price transparency requirements in the CY 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule. The updates will be phased in over the next 14 months and include several significant changes including the use of a CMS-mandated template, a requirement for an affirmation statement from the hospital, and several new data elements. Join us to discover what changes are scheduled for implementation in 2024 and 2025 and how they’ll impact your facility.
During this complimentary 60-minute webinar, we’ll analyze the key provisions of the Price Transparency regulations and provide insights to help you prepare for the upcoming changes.
Automated Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) for Hip & Knee ReplacementHealth Catalyst
What was once voluntary reporting will soon be made mandatory with penalties.
On July 1, 2024, all health systems will be required to collect Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation for the following measures:
Hospital-Level, Risk Standardized Patient-Reported Outcomes Performance Measure (PRO-PM) Following Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)
Hospital-Level Risk-Standardized Complication Rate (RSCR) Following Elective Primary THA/TKA
Are you equipped to handle these new requirements?
Mandatory data collection begins April 1, 2024, and failure to submit timely data can result in a 25 percent reduction in payments by Medicare.
Attend this webinar to learn how mobile engagement can empower your organization to meet this requirement.
2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Final Rule UpdatesHealth Catalyst
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the calendar year (CY) 2024 MPFS final rule was created to advance health equity and improve access to affordable healthcare. This webinar will cover the major policy updates of the MPFS final rule including updates to the telehealth services policy and remote monitoring services and enrollment of MFTs and MHCs as Medicare providers. The conversation will also cover policy changes on split (or shared) evaluation and management (E/M) visits, and the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for Advanced Diagnostic Imaging.
What's Next for OPPS: A Look at the 2024 Final RuleHealth Catalyst
During this webinar, we’ll analyze the key provisions of the OPPS final rule and identify the significant changes for the coming year to help prepare your staff for compliance with the 2024 Medicare outpatient billing guidelines.
Insight into the 2024 ICD-10 PCS Updates - Part 2Health Catalyst
Three new codes were added to describe procedures involving a short-term external heart assist system inserted into the descending thoracic aorta. Codes were also added for fluorescence guided procedures of the female reproductive system and trunk region using pafolacianine. Additionally, new technology codes were introduced for insertion of intraluminal devices such as venous valves, leadless pacemakers, and artery bypass procedures.
Vitalware Insight Into the 2024 ICD10 CM Updates.pdfHealth Catalyst
This document provides an overview of upcoming changes to ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2024. It notes that there will be 395 new codes, 13 revisions, and 25 deletions. Specific changes include 18 new major complication or comorbidity (MCC) codes, 3 deleted MCC codes, 79 new CC codes, and 8 deleted CC codes. The presentation reviews code additions, deletions, and revisions for various body systems and disease chapters. It also outlines changes to the MCC and CC lists as well as Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG) updates.
Driving Value: Boosting Clinical Registry Value Using ARMUS SolutionsHealth Catalyst
Many hospitals today face a perfect storm of operational and financial challenges. With increasing competition from outpatient facilities and rising care costs negatively impacting budgets, now is the time to boost your clinical registry’s value. However, collecting and analyzing data can be time-consuming and costly without the right tools. During this webinar, we will share insights and best practices for increasing the value of registry participation and how it’s possible to reduce costs while improving outcomes using the ARMUS Product Suite.
Tech-Enabled Managed Services: Not Your Average OutsourcingHealth Catalyst
The document discusses tech-enabled managed services (TEMS) as an alternative to traditional outsourcing. TEMS aims to reduce costs for health systems while maintaining performance, employees, and culture. It achieves this through specialized partnering, alleviating financial pressures, and ensuring dependable performance using a combination of people, processes, technology, and data. TEMS rebadges existing employees and takes on open positions to prevent workforce reductions. It also maintains existing processes while implementing new technology. This model is said to create wins for Health Catalyst through new employees, the health system through reduced costs and governed performance, and employees through continued work and an improved experience.
This webinar will provide an in-depth review of the CPT/HCPCS code set changes that will be effective on July 1, 2023. The review will include additions and deletions to the CPT/HCPCS code set, revisions of code descriptors, payment changes, and rationale behind the changes.
How Managing Chronic Conditions Is Streamlined with Digital TechnologyHealth Catalyst
Chronic conditions across the United States are prevalent and continue to rise. Managing one or more chronic diseases can be very challenging for patients who may be overwhelmed or confused about their care plan and may not have access to the resources they need. At the same time, care teams are overburdened, making it difficult to provide the support these patients require to stay as healthy as possible. A new approach to chronic condition management leverages technology to enable organizations to scale high-quality care, identify gaps in care, provide personalized support, and monitor patients on an ongoing basis. Such streamlined management will result in better outcomes, reduced costs, and more satisfied patients.
COVID-19: After the Public Health Emergency EndsHealth Catalyst
In this fast-paced webinar, we will discuss the impact of the end of the public health emergency (PHE), including upcoming changes to the different flexibilities allowed during the PHE and the timeline for when these flexibilities will end. We’ll also cover coding changes and reimbursement updates.
Automated Medication Compliance Tools for the Provider and PatientHealth Catalyst
When it comes to sustaining patient health outcomes, compliance and adherence to medication regimens are critically important, especially as providers manage patients with complex care needs and multiple medications. But, with provider burnout and staffing shortages at an all-time high, an efficient solution is critical. The use of automated medication management workflows to decrease provider burnout, while improving both medication compliance and patient engagement, is the way forward.
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Maintaining a Balanced Lifestyle:
Integrating Nutrition and Exercise: Suggests meal planning and incorporating physical activity into daily routines.
Monitoring Progress: Recommends tracking food intake and exercise, regular health check-ups, and provides tips for achieving balance, such as getting sufficient sleep, managing stress, and staying socially active.
MBC Support Group for Black Women – Insights in Genetic Testing.pdfbkling
Christina Spears, breast cancer genetic counselor at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, joined us for the MBC Support Group for Black Women to discuss the importance of genetic testing in communities of color and answer pressing questions.
Gemma Wean- Nutritional solution for Artemiasmuskaan0008
GEMMA Wean is a high end larval co-feeding and weaning diet aimed at Artemia optimisation and is fortified with a high level of proteins and phospholipids. GEMMA Wean provides the early weaned juveniles with dedicated fish nutrition and is an ideal follow on from GEMMA Micro or Artemia.
GEMMA Wean has an optimised nutritional balance and physical quality so that it flows more freely and spreads readily on the water surface. The balance of phospholipid classes to- gether with the production technology based on a low temperature extrusion process improve the physical aspect of the pellets while still retaining the high phospholipid content.
GEMMA Wean is available in 0.1mm, 0.2mm and 0.3mm. There is also a 0.5mm micro-pellet, GEMMA Wean Diamond, which covers the early nursery stage from post-weaning to pre-growing.
Stem Cell Solutions: Dr. David Greene's Path to Non-Surgical Cardiac CareDr. David Greene Arizona
Explore the groundbreaking work of Dr. David Greene, a pioneer in regenerative medicine, who is revolutionizing the field of cardiology through stem cell therapy in Arizona. This ppt delves into how Dr. Greene's innovative approach is providing non-surgical, effective treatments for heart disease, using the body's own cells to repair heart damage and improve patient outcomes. Learn about the science behind stem cell therapy, its benefits over traditional cardiac surgeries, and the promising future it holds for modern medicine. Join us as we uncover how Dr. Greene's commitment to stem cell research and therapy is setting new standards in healthcare and offering new hope to cardiac patients.
Rate Controlled Drug Delivery Systems, Activation Modulated Drug Delivery Systems, Mechanically activated, pH activated, Enzyme activated, Osmotic activated Drug Delivery Systems, Feedback regulated Drug Delivery Systems systems are discussed here.
LGBTQ+ Adults: Unique Opportunities and Inclusive Approaches to CareVITASAuthor
This webinar helps clinicians understand the unique healthcare needs of the LGBTQ+ community, primarily in relation to end-of-life care. Topics include social and cultural background and challenges, healthcare disparities, advanced care planning, and strategies for reaching the community and improving quality of care.