The Path to Shared Savings With Population Health Management ApplicationsHealth Catalyst
Eric Just, Vice President of Technology and Kathleen Merkley, Clinical Engagement Executive and Vice President at Health Catalyst, will demonstrate live several advanced applications built on a Late-Binding Catalyst data warehouse. Attendees will better understand how to:
Identify variability in care
Define accurate populations
Report on key health indicators across the continuum of care
Apply flexible models for risk stratification
Measure detailed process metrics spanning transitions of care for HF patients
Next generation health systems and Accountable Care Organizations will be paid based on an evolving model that rewards healthcare providers through ‘shared savings.’ Those savings must be achieved through systematic cost reductions while still improving quality of care. For most, this dual focus will prove to be the most critical and difficult part of realizing success.
The FICO Medication Adherence Score is a predictive analytics tool developed by the same organization responsible for FICO credit scores. The adherence score forecast an individual’s likelihood of taking his or her prescription medication as directed.
This presentation made at EMCON, Jaipur, November 2017, demonstrates the practical feasibility of improving quality care in Emergency Departments by application of Lean thinking, both theoretically and research based findings along with our own experience at THE MISSION HOSPITAL, DURGAPUR.
Learn how CORUS is enabling these significant improvements:
Integration of EHR data, including patient-level clinical and operational data, as well as departmental and equipment resource-utilization data, delivering the first truly comprehensive view of the true cost of patient care
Manufacturing-style activity-based costing that is scalable and maintainable, freeing analysts to focus on identifying variation and cost-saving opportunities
Embedded costing knowledge including best practices, rules, and algorithms from world-renowned academic healthcare institutions, accelerating cost management transformation
Dramatically more timely and actionable cost data based on an analytics platform that supports over 160 source systems including EHR, claims, General Ledger, payroll, supply chain, and patient satisfaction systems
We look forward to you joining us!
We hand-picked the most interesting, useful, credible factoids from 2015 (including the plethora of facts that came out of the 2nd Healthcare Analytics Summit) to create an easy-to-share presentation. The 55 factoids included in this presentation revealed several interesting healthcare trends: Trend #1: Healthcare analytics continue to improve outcomes and save money. For example, OSF’s predictive readmission model reduced its all-cause readmission rate to less than 10%. Trend #2: New technologies are improving patient engagement. For example, 73 percent of health executives surveyed see positive ROI from personalization technologies, and 76 percent of doctors say patient use of wearable health devices improves engagement. Trend #3: Patients and providers agree on data is useful but have security and interoperability concerns. For example, 83 percent of patients don’t trust EHR safety and security, and 83 percent of physicians are frustrated by EHR interoperability. Although a majority of healthcare leaders understand the importance of using analytics to improve outcomes and reduce costs, only 15% of hospitals use predictive analytics. We hope to see analytics use increase in 2016, and we’re excited to see how technology will continue to engage patients and lead to better health outcomes.
How to Use Data to Improve Patient Safety: A Two-Part DiscussionHealth Catalyst
As healthcare organizations continue to experience expenses growing faster than revenues, value based care, and consumer transparency of costs and quality, patient safety will be an important determinant of success. This session will describe the sociotechnical attributes of a safe system, the challenges, the barriers and opportunities, and how to use data and your culture of safety as a powerful tool to drive down adverse events.
Attendees will learn:
Why patient safety and quality are important.
How data can help improve patient safety.
The history of patient safety and where we are today.
What components make up a safety analytics culture.
How the internal safety culture directly impacts patient safety metrics.
To describe basic guidelines for improving a safety culture with analytics.
5 Reasons the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine Is a Hot TopicHealth Catalyst
Evidence-based medicine is an important model of care because it offers health systems a way to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim. It also offers health systems an opportunity to thrive in this era of value-based care. In specific, there are five reasons the industry is interested in the practice of evidence-based medicine: (1) With the explosion of scientific knowledge being published, it’s difficult for clinicians to stay current on the latest best practices. (2) Improved technology enables healthcare workers to have better access to data and knowledge. (3) Payers, employers, and patients are driving the need for the industry to show transparency, accountability, and value. (4) There is broad evidence that Americans often do not get the care they need. (5) Evidence-based medicine works. While the practice of evidence-based medicine is growing in popularity, moving an entire organization to a new model of care presents challenges. First, clinicians need to change how they were taught to practice. Second, providers are already busy with increasingly larger and larger workloads. Using a five-step framework, though, enables clinicians to begin to incorporate evidence-based medicine into their practices. The five steps include (1) Asking a clinical question to identify a key problem. (2) Acquiring the best evidence possible. (3) Appraising the evidence and making sure it’s applicable to the population and the question being asked. (4) Applying the evidence to daily clinical practice. (5) Assessing performance.
Join Dr. Burton, a nationally renowned physician executive, in an advanced analysis of healthcare waste. With nearly three decades practicing medicine and architecting clinical processes as an executive at Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Burton has spent the greater part of his career focused on developing a systematic process and tools to eliminate waste from US Healthcare.
Attend and learn:
1. How to dissect waste into coherent “chunks”
2. What data and tools are needed to quantify the different forms of waste and implement improvement initiatives to reduce waste
3. How to organize clinical teams to use the data and tools to reduce waste
The Path to Shared Savings With Population Health Management ApplicationsHealth Catalyst
Eric Just, Vice President of Technology and Kathleen Merkley, Clinical Engagement Executive and Vice President at Health Catalyst, will demonstrate live several advanced applications built on a Late-Binding Catalyst data warehouse. Attendees will better understand how to:
Identify variability in care
Define accurate populations
Report on key health indicators across the continuum of care
Apply flexible models for risk stratification
Measure detailed process metrics spanning transitions of care for HF patients
Next generation health systems and Accountable Care Organizations will be paid based on an evolving model that rewards healthcare providers through ‘shared savings.’ Those savings must be achieved through systematic cost reductions while still improving quality of care. For most, this dual focus will prove to be the most critical and difficult part of realizing success.
The FICO Medication Adherence Score is a predictive analytics tool developed by the same organization responsible for FICO credit scores. The adherence score forecast an individual’s likelihood of taking his or her prescription medication as directed.
This presentation made at EMCON, Jaipur, November 2017, demonstrates the practical feasibility of improving quality care in Emergency Departments by application of Lean thinking, both theoretically and research based findings along with our own experience at THE MISSION HOSPITAL, DURGAPUR.
Learn how CORUS is enabling these significant improvements:
Integration of EHR data, including patient-level clinical and operational data, as well as departmental and equipment resource-utilization data, delivering the first truly comprehensive view of the true cost of patient care
Manufacturing-style activity-based costing that is scalable and maintainable, freeing analysts to focus on identifying variation and cost-saving opportunities
Embedded costing knowledge including best practices, rules, and algorithms from world-renowned academic healthcare institutions, accelerating cost management transformation
Dramatically more timely and actionable cost data based on an analytics platform that supports over 160 source systems including EHR, claims, General Ledger, payroll, supply chain, and patient satisfaction systems
We look forward to you joining us!
We hand-picked the most interesting, useful, credible factoids from 2015 (including the plethora of facts that came out of the 2nd Healthcare Analytics Summit) to create an easy-to-share presentation. The 55 factoids included in this presentation revealed several interesting healthcare trends: Trend #1: Healthcare analytics continue to improve outcomes and save money. For example, OSF’s predictive readmission model reduced its all-cause readmission rate to less than 10%. Trend #2: New technologies are improving patient engagement. For example, 73 percent of health executives surveyed see positive ROI from personalization technologies, and 76 percent of doctors say patient use of wearable health devices improves engagement. Trend #3: Patients and providers agree on data is useful but have security and interoperability concerns. For example, 83 percent of patients don’t trust EHR safety and security, and 83 percent of physicians are frustrated by EHR interoperability. Although a majority of healthcare leaders understand the importance of using analytics to improve outcomes and reduce costs, only 15% of hospitals use predictive analytics. We hope to see analytics use increase in 2016, and we’re excited to see how technology will continue to engage patients and lead to better health outcomes.
How to Use Data to Improve Patient Safety: A Two-Part DiscussionHealth Catalyst
As healthcare organizations continue to experience expenses growing faster than revenues, value based care, and consumer transparency of costs and quality, patient safety will be an important determinant of success. This session will describe the sociotechnical attributes of a safe system, the challenges, the barriers and opportunities, and how to use data and your culture of safety as a powerful tool to drive down adverse events.
Attendees will learn:
Why patient safety and quality are important.
How data can help improve patient safety.
The history of patient safety and where we are today.
What components make up a safety analytics culture.
How the internal safety culture directly impacts patient safety metrics.
To describe basic guidelines for improving a safety culture with analytics.
5 Reasons the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine Is a Hot TopicHealth Catalyst
Evidence-based medicine is an important model of care because it offers health systems a way to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim. It also offers health systems an opportunity to thrive in this era of value-based care. In specific, there are five reasons the industry is interested in the practice of evidence-based medicine: (1) With the explosion of scientific knowledge being published, it’s difficult for clinicians to stay current on the latest best practices. (2) Improved technology enables healthcare workers to have better access to data and knowledge. (3) Payers, employers, and patients are driving the need for the industry to show transparency, accountability, and value. (4) There is broad evidence that Americans often do not get the care they need. (5) Evidence-based medicine works. While the practice of evidence-based medicine is growing in popularity, moving an entire organization to a new model of care presents challenges. First, clinicians need to change how they were taught to practice. Second, providers are already busy with increasingly larger and larger workloads. Using a five-step framework, though, enables clinicians to begin to incorporate evidence-based medicine into their practices. The five steps include (1) Asking a clinical question to identify a key problem. (2) Acquiring the best evidence possible. (3) Appraising the evidence and making sure it’s applicable to the population and the question being asked. (4) Applying the evidence to daily clinical practice. (5) Assessing performance.
Join Dr. Burton, a nationally renowned physician executive, in an advanced analysis of healthcare waste. With nearly three decades practicing medicine and architecting clinical processes as an executive at Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Burton has spent the greater part of his career focused on developing a systematic process and tools to eliminate waste from US Healthcare.
Attend and learn:
1. How to dissect waste into coherent “chunks”
2. What data and tools are needed to quantify the different forms of waste and implement improvement initiatives to reduce waste
3. How to organize clinical teams to use the data and tools to reduce waste
We spent time collecting healthcare factoids that show key trends driving the need for data in healthcare. And now, we’ve put it into an easy-to-view, shareable, memorable presentation to use as you see fit. You can use these factoids to help you make a case for reducing healthcare waste or get pointers for your next IT project. You can even use a few of them to predict the future of healthcare.
Key Principles and Approaches to Populaiton Health mManagement - HAS Session 21Health Catalyst
Population Health Management is in its early stages of maturity, suffering from inconsistent definitions and understanding, and is overhyped by vendors and ill-defined by the industry. And yet, many systems are moving forward in innovative pioneering ways to address this growing trend. In this session, you will hear from two very different, successful health systems: a physician-led group and a large integrated delivery system. They will share their best practices, learnings, and different approaches to population health management.
An ACO Case Study: Quality Improvement in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
OSF HealthCare—one of the first Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)—has a strong history of providing outstanding quality improvement in healthcare within hospitals, clinics, home health and other health provider entities across Illinois. For ACOs to succeed under value-based care, it is critical that organizations effectively coordinate care in the effort to maximize quality and safety, while minimizing costs and waste. It is also imperative that ACOs understand patients’ needs and values and incorporate them into all health decisions.
Please join Leslie Falk, Health Catalyst and the OSF team—recipient of the 2014 Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality’s first annual Tim Philipp Award for Excellence in Palliative and End-of-Life Care—as they discuss how they leveraged technology and data to launch a community-wide supportive care initiative that has successfully maximized value for the populations they serve.
Attendees of the webinar will:
Learn how OSF is improving healthcare quality and delivering on the Triple Aim.
Explore innovative ways to improve care coordination.
Discover how technology-enabled solutions drives community, patient, and physician engagement.
Understand the benefit of a team approach to improving care coordination.
Making Healthcare Waste Reduction and Patient Safety Actionable - HAS Session 6Health Catalyst
Multiple studies have estimated that at least 30% of US healthcare expenditures are wasteful. But how do you identify and reduce that waste? In this session, we will share with you a three-part framework for understanding, measuring and addressing waste reduction. In particular, we will highlight the importance patient safety and injury prevention, framing the importance of shifting from a system of incident reporting (which creates a culture of blame and guilt) to a system in which patient injury is regarded as a process failure rather than a person failure. To make that transition, health systems will need to 1) define process flows and metrics for each major type of patient injury; and 2) create a learning environment in which team members are engaged in process redesign to prevent process failure and injury. A leading health system in patient safety and quality will also share their best practices in how they have created a culture of patient safety and quality.
Demystifying Text Analytics and NLP in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Leading the discussion, we have two exceptional thinkers in this space, Mike Dow, a former CIO and current Health Catalyst product manager and software developer, and Dr. Carolyn Simpkins, Health Catalyst’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer.
They will share thoughts on the challenges of text in clinical analytics as well as demonstrate:
Why text is an important part of clinical analytics
Why a text search is not enough
How clinical text search can be refined with NLP techniques
What can healthcare executives learn from military decision-making, as it relates to predictiveanalytics in healthcare? As it turns out, quite a lot. Dale Sanders, senior vice president for strategy at Salt Lake City, Utah-based Health Catalyst, drew some surprising parallels between these two vital sectors of the economy during a concluding session at the Plante Moran Healthcare Executive Summit on June 5 in Chicago. His main theme was to remember that in predictive analytic analytics, it's the intervention that matters, noting that much of the industry is seduced by flashy predictive analytics "objects" without thinking through the needed interventions which are needed to get the proper ROI.
The Top Seven Analytics-Driven Approaches for Reducing Diagnostic Error and I...Health Catalyst
From a wrong diagnosis to a delayed one, diagnostic error is a growing concern in the industry. Diagnostic error consequences are severe—they are responsible for 17 percent of preventable deaths (according to a Harvard Medical Practice study) and account for the highest portion of total payments (32.5 percent), according to a 1986-2010 analysis of malpractice claims. Patient safety depends heavily on getting the diagnosis right the first time.
Health systems know reducing diagnostic error to improve patient safety is a top priority, but knowing where to start is a challenge. Systems can start by implementing the top seven analytics-driven approaches for reducing diagnostic error:
Use KPA to Target Improvement Areas
Always Consider Delayed Diagnosis
Diagnose Earlier Using Data
Use the Choosing Wisely Initiative as a Guide
Understand Patient Populations Using Data
Collaborate with Improvement Teams
Include Patients and Their Families
Adding Value to the EMR: A Clinical PerspectiveHealth Catalyst
Known for leading large-scale healthcare improvement using data and analytics to drive positive change, Dr. Charles Macias speaks to creating greater value in the EMR through analytics. This approach has done more to increase value than many other cost-reduction efforts.
In this webinar you will 1) Explore each component of the value equation, 2) learn how TCH has increased the value of its healthcare using data to drive quality an ever more important need of those facing capitated or value–based care reimbursements and 3) consider a new ROI equation for systems who have invested heavily in their EMRs
Have you ever wanted to learn more about human factors in health care and it’s impact on patient safety? Well now is the time. Join us on Oct. 4th at noon ET as Dr. Kathy Momtahan and Dr. Gianni D’Egidio explore the work of the Canadian Human Factors in Healthcare Network and recent human factors evaluations of hospital external defibrillators.
Partners’ Care Management Strategy: A 10-Year JourneyHealth Catalyst
Chronic diseases are responsible for seven out of 10 deaths each year, killing more than 1.7 million Americans annually. Additionally, 133 million Americans—approximately 45 percent of the population—have at least one chronic disease. Partners HealthCare believes that chronically ill patients with multiple medical conditions often need the most help coordinating their care, which is why this well-respected health system has spent the last 10 years perfecting an integrated care management program (iCMP).
Key elements of the iCMP at Partners include access to specialized resources (e.g., mental health, palliative care), involvement through the continuum of care, patient self-management, IT-enabled systems to improve care coordination, data-driven analytics to support strategic decision making, a payer-blind approach, and ongoing support and training for its teams and staff.
Attendees will learn how to:
Identify the essential elements of an effective care management program for chronically ill patients
Recognize how care management plays a key role in an effective population health management strategy
Determine how to use information to identify and effectively manage complex, chronically ill patients
This is the presentation I gave to the HIMSS Management Engineering and Process Improvement (ME-PI) Community on predictive analytics healthcare usage.
Two-Midnight Rule: Ready For the Clock to Strike 12?Health Catalyst
CMS’s proposed changes to the controversial two-midnight rule that governs short hospital stays, has been met with strong opposition by the healthcare community. While the core of the rule is fairly straightforward, implementation could be anything but. Being classified as an outpatient or inpatient can have a substantial financial impact the patient and the hospital. Adding to the confusion, CMS has also stated this policy won’t override a physician’s judgment. Unfortunately, CMS failed to provide details on what the physician must provide in order to justify their decision. The good news is there is still time to provide feedback to CMS. Take action, understand the new rules, let your voice be heard, and most importantly, be prepared for the new rule in 2016.
The Power of Geo Analytics (and maps) to Improve Predictive Analytics in Heal...Health Catalyst
As far back as the 1840s, clinicians have been using maps to inform them about population health trends. Today, the geo-analytics industry is well-developed in almost every application, with the exception of healthcare and medicine. There is potential to use mapping technologies to show patient disease burden in geographic form, map locations of health care facilities, and a plethora of accountable care population health initiatives would benefit from geo-analysis. Health Catalyst is working to integrate inputs into analysis like maps that can show geographic care boundaries, population health demographics, and more.
Improving the Outcomes That Matter Most to PatientsHealth Catalyst
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been used in healthcare since the 1970s. But the industry hasn’t had meaningful, consistent PROs and PROMs definitions until ICHOM developed one. ICHOM, a pioneer in outcomes measurement and improvement, demonstrates that healthcare organizations focused on improving patient outcomes that patients actually care about are the ones most likely to transform healthcare.
PROs and PROMs complement clinical indicators in understanding the quality of healthcare a team is delivering. For example, an improvement program for prostate cancer patients that only focuses on improving blood loss or length of stay in the hospital completely misses a patient’s biggest fears: will they need to wear pads for the rest of their life? Will their relationship with their partner be the same as it was?
By focusing on outcomes that matter most to patients, health systems will be more successful at improving outcomes. ICHOM describes five strategies for getting started with PROs and PROMs:
Find the Believers (Identify Clinician Champions)
Organize a Cross-Functional Team (with Appropriate Governance)
Invest Time and Resources
Celebrate Progress Along the Way
Use Early Successes to Scale and Spread
Best Practices in Implementing Population Health Health Catalyst
To manage population health, one needs to intimately understand the anatomy of healthcare and model how healthcare is delivered, in order to systematically improve healthcare outcomes. In this webinar, Dr. Burton draws on his 26-year executive career at Intermountain, Select Health, and Health Catalyst. He emphasizes the importance of linking administrative data (e.g., billing codes) to processes of clinical care to use the 80/20 principle to prioritize care processes within each venue to focus improvement initiatives on the things that matter most. He will also discuss a Clinical Integration framework to use in driving out waste by reducing variation in the ordering of care, the efficiency with which the care that is ordered is delivered and reducing defects in care delivery to make it safer.
Healthcare Transformation: The Journey of High-Value HealthcareHealth Catalyst
To manage population health, one needs to intimately understand the anatomy of healthcare and model how healthcare is delivered, in order to systematically improve healthcare outcomes. In this webinar, Dr. Burton draws on his 26-year executive career at Intermountain, Select Health, and Health Catalyst. He emphasizes the importance of linking administrative data (e.g., billing codes) to processes of clinical care to use the 80/20 principle to prioritize care processes within each venue to focus improvement initiatives on the things that matter most. He will also discuss a Clinical Integration framework to use in driving out waste by reducing variation in the ordering of care, the efficiency with which the care that is ordered is delivered and reducing defects in care delivery to make it safer.
Leveraging Healthcare Analytics to Reduce Heart Failure Readmission Rates Health Catalyst
Heart failure patients are adding an enormous strain to the US healthcare system. In addition, readmission rates for these diseases are adding to the burden. Healthcare analytics can play a key role. By following these 4 steps, all of which include data analytics, health systems can begin to reduce readmission rates: 1) Understand your true admission rates. 2) Establish reliable baseline measures. 3) Be aware of balance measures. 4) Establish an EDW.
Patient Flight Path Analytics: From Airline Operations to Healthcare OutcomesHealth Catalyst
We developed a predictive analytics framework for patient care based upon concepts from airline operations. Using the idea of an aircraft turnaround time where the airline wants to put the aircraft back into operation as soon as possible, we’ve created a way to help patients headed toward poor outcomes, along with their providers, “turnaround” and get the best possible, most cost-effective outcome. For example, in a diabetes patient, we might use variables such as: age, alcohol use, annual eye/foot exam, BMI, etc. to look for patterns that might influence two outcomes: 1) Diabetic control and 2) The absence of progression toward diabetic complications. The notion of our Patient Flight Path is useful at both the conceptual level, as well as the predictive algorithm implementation level.
The Changing Role of Healthcare Data AnalystsHealth Catalyst
The healthcare industry is undergoing a sea change, and healthcare data analysts will play a central role in this transformation. This report explores how the evolution to value-based care is changing the role of healthcare data analysts, how data analysts’ skills can best be applied to achieve value-based objectives and, finally, how Health Catalyst’s most successful health system clients are making this cultural transformation happen in the real world.
We spent time collecting healthcare factoids that show key trends driving the need for data in healthcare. And now, we’ve put it into an easy-to-view, shareable, memorable presentation to use as you see fit. You can use these factoids to help you make a case for reducing healthcare waste or get pointers for your next IT project. You can even use a few of them to predict the future of healthcare.
Key Principles and Approaches to Populaiton Health mManagement - HAS Session 21Health Catalyst
Population Health Management is in its early stages of maturity, suffering from inconsistent definitions and understanding, and is overhyped by vendors and ill-defined by the industry. And yet, many systems are moving forward in innovative pioneering ways to address this growing trend. In this session, you will hear from two very different, successful health systems: a physician-led group and a large integrated delivery system. They will share their best practices, learnings, and different approaches to population health management.
An ACO Case Study: Quality Improvement in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
OSF HealthCare—one of the first Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)—has a strong history of providing outstanding quality improvement in healthcare within hospitals, clinics, home health and other health provider entities across Illinois. For ACOs to succeed under value-based care, it is critical that organizations effectively coordinate care in the effort to maximize quality and safety, while minimizing costs and waste. It is also imperative that ACOs understand patients’ needs and values and incorporate them into all health decisions.
Please join Leslie Falk, Health Catalyst and the OSF team—recipient of the 2014 Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality’s first annual Tim Philipp Award for Excellence in Palliative and End-of-Life Care—as they discuss how they leveraged technology and data to launch a community-wide supportive care initiative that has successfully maximized value for the populations they serve.
Attendees of the webinar will:
Learn how OSF is improving healthcare quality and delivering on the Triple Aim.
Explore innovative ways to improve care coordination.
Discover how technology-enabled solutions drives community, patient, and physician engagement.
Understand the benefit of a team approach to improving care coordination.
Making Healthcare Waste Reduction and Patient Safety Actionable - HAS Session 6Health Catalyst
Multiple studies have estimated that at least 30% of US healthcare expenditures are wasteful. But how do you identify and reduce that waste? In this session, we will share with you a three-part framework for understanding, measuring and addressing waste reduction. In particular, we will highlight the importance patient safety and injury prevention, framing the importance of shifting from a system of incident reporting (which creates a culture of blame and guilt) to a system in which patient injury is regarded as a process failure rather than a person failure. To make that transition, health systems will need to 1) define process flows and metrics for each major type of patient injury; and 2) create a learning environment in which team members are engaged in process redesign to prevent process failure and injury. A leading health system in patient safety and quality will also share their best practices in how they have created a culture of patient safety and quality.
Demystifying Text Analytics and NLP in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Leading the discussion, we have two exceptional thinkers in this space, Mike Dow, a former CIO and current Health Catalyst product manager and software developer, and Dr. Carolyn Simpkins, Health Catalyst’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer.
They will share thoughts on the challenges of text in clinical analytics as well as demonstrate:
Why text is an important part of clinical analytics
Why a text search is not enough
How clinical text search can be refined with NLP techniques
What can healthcare executives learn from military decision-making, as it relates to predictiveanalytics in healthcare? As it turns out, quite a lot. Dale Sanders, senior vice president for strategy at Salt Lake City, Utah-based Health Catalyst, drew some surprising parallels between these two vital sectors of the economy during a concluding session at the Plante Moran Healthcare Executive Summit on June 5 in Chicago. His main theme was to remember that in predictive analytic analytics, it's the intervention that matters, noting that much of the industry is seduced by flashy predictive analytics "objects" without thinking through the needed interventions which are needed to get the proper ROI.
The Top Seven Analytics-Driven Approaches for Reducing Diagnostic Error and I...Health Catalyst
From a wrong diagnosis to a delayed one, diagnostic error is a growing concern in the industry. Diagnostic error consequences are severe—they are responsible for 17 percent of preventable deaths (according to a Harvard Medical Practice study) and account for the highest portion of total payments (32.5 percent), according to a 1986-2010 analysis of malpractice claims. Patient safety depends heavily on getting the diagnosis right the first time.
Health systems know reducing diagnostic error to improve patient safety is a top priority, but knowing where to start is a challenge. Systems can start by implementing the top seven analytics-driven approaches for reducing diagnostic error:
Use KPA to Target Improvement Areas
Always Consider Delayed Diagnosis
Diagnose Earlier Using Data
Use the Choosing Wisely Initiative as a Guide
Understand Patient Populations Using Data
Collaborate with Improvement Teams
Include Patients and Their Families
Adding Value to the EMR: A Clinical PerspectiveHealth Catalyst
Known for leading large-scale healthcare improvement using data and analytics to drive positive change, Dr. Charles Macias speaks to creating greater value in the EMR through analytics. This approach has done more to increase value than many other cost-reduction efforts.
In this webinar you will 1) Explore each component of the value equation, 2) learn how TCH has increased the value of its healthcare using data to drive quality an ever more important need of those facing capitated or value–based care reimbursements and 3) consider a new ROI equation for systems who have invested heavily in their EMRs
Have you ever wanted to learn more about human factors in health care and it’s impact on patient safety? Well now is the time. Join us on Oct. 4th at noon ET as Dr. Kathy Momtahan and Dr. Gianni D’Egidio explore the work of the Canadian Human Factors in Healthcare Network and recent human factors evaluations of hospital external defibrillators.
Partners’ Care Management Strategy: A 10-Year JourneyHealth Catalyst
Chronic diseases are responsible for seven out of 10 deaths each year, killing more than 1.7 million Americans annually. Additionally, 133 million Americans—approximately 45 percent of the population—have at least one chronic disease. Partners HealthCare believes that chronically ill patients with multiple medical conditions often need the most help coordinating their care, which is why this well-respected health system has spent the last 10 years perfecting an integrated care management program (iCMP).
Key elements of the iCMP at Partners include access to specialized resources (e.g., mental health, palliative care), involvement through the continuum of care, patient self-management, IT-enabled systems to improve care coordination, data-driven analytics to support strategic decision making, a payer-blind approach, and ongoing support and training for its teams and staff.
Attendees will learn how to:
Identify the essential elements of an effective care management program for chronically ill patients
Recognize how care management plays a key role in an effective population health management strategy
Determine how to use information to identify and effectively manage complex, chronically ill patients
This is the presentation I gave to the HIMSS Management Engineering and Process Improvement (ME-PI) Community on predictive analytics healthcare usage.
Two-Midnight Rule: Ready For the Clock to Strike 12?Health Catalyst
CMS’s proposed changes to the controversial two-midnight rule that governs short hospital stays, has been met with strong opposition by the healthcare community. While the core of the rule is fairly straightforward, implementation could be anything but. Being classified as an outpatient or inpatient can have a substantial financial impact the patient and the hospital. Adding to the confusion, CMS has also stated this policy won’t override a physician’s judgment. Unfortunately, CMS failed to provide details on what the physician must provide in order to justify their decision. The good news is there is still time to provide feedback to CMS. Take action, understand the new rules, let your voice be heard, and most importantly, be prepared for the new rule in 2016.
The Power of Geo Analytics (and maps) to Improve Predictive Analytics in Heal...Health Catalyst
As far back as the 1840s, clinicians have been using maps to inform them about population health trends. Today, the geo-analytics industry is well-developed in almost every application, with the exception of healthcare and medicine. There is potential to use mapping technologies to show patient disease burden in geographic form, map locations of health care facilities, and a plethora of accountable care population health initiatives would benefit from geo-analysis. Health Catalyst is working to integrate inputs into analysis like maps that can show geographic care boundaries, population health demographics, and more.
Improving the Outcomes That Matter Most to PatientsHealth Catalyst
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been used in healthcare since the 1970s. But the industry hasn’t had meaningful, consistent PROs and PROMs definitions until ICHOM developed one. ICHOM, a pioneer in outcomes measurement and improvement, demonstrates that healthcare organizations focused on improving patient outcomes that patients actually care about are the ones most likely to transform healthcare.
PROs and PROMs complement clinical indicators in understanding the quality of healthcare a team is delivering. For example, an improvement program for prostate cancer patients that only focuses on improving blood loss or length of stay in the hospital completely misses a patient’s biggest fears: will they need to wear pads for the rest of their life? Will their relationship with their partner be the same as it was?
By focusing on outcomes that matter most to patients, health systems will be more successful at improving outcomes. ICHOM describes five strategies for getting started with PROs and PROMs:
Find the Believers (Identify Clinician Champions)
Organize a Cross-Functional Team (with Appropriate Governance)
Invest Time and Resources
Celebrate Progress Along the Way
Use Early Successes to Scale and Spread
Best Practices in Implementing Population Health Health Catalyst
To manage population health, one needs to intimately understand the anatomy of healthcare and model how healthcare is delivered, in order to systematically improve healthcare outcomes. In this webinar, Dr. Burton draws on his 26-year executive career at Intermountain, Select Health, and Health Catalyst. He emphasizes the importance of linking administrative data (e.g., billing codes) to processes of clinical care to use the 80/20 principle to prioritize care processes within each venue to focus improvement initiatives on the things that matter most. He will also discuss a Clinical Integration framework to use in driving out waste by reducing variation in the ordering of care, the efficiency with which the care that is ordered is delivered and reducing defects in care delivery to make it safer.
Healthcare Transformation: The Journey of High-Value HealthcareHealth Catalyst
To manage population health, one needs to intimately understand the anatomy of healthcare and model how healthcare is delivered, in order to systematically improve healthcare outcomes. In this webinar, Dr. Burton draws on his 26-year executive career at Intermountain, Select Health, and Health Catalyst. He emphasizes the importance of linking administrative data (e.g., billing codes) to processes of clinical care to use the 80/20 principle to prioritize care processes within each venue to focus improvement initiatives on the things that matter most. He will also discuss a Clinical Integration framework to use in driving out waste by reducing variation in the ordering of care, the efficiency with which the care that is ordered is delivered and reducing defects in care delivery to make it safer.
Leveraging Healthcare Analytics to Reduce Heart Failure Readmission Rates Health Catalyst
Heart failure patients are adding an enormous strain to the US healthcare system. In addition, readmission rates for these diseases are adding to the burden. Healthcare analytics can play a key role. By following these 4 steps, all of which include data analytics, health systems can begin to reduce readmission rates: 1) Understand your true admission rates. 2) Establish reliable baseline measures. 3) Be aware of balance measures. 4) Establish an EDW.
Patient Flight Path Analytics: From Airline Operations to Healthcare OutcomesHealth Catalyst
We developed a predictive analytics framework for patient care based upon concepts from airline operations. Using the idea of an aircraft turnaround time where the airline wants to put the aircraft back into operation as soon as possible, we’ve created a way to help patients headed toward poor outcomes, along with their providers, “turnaround” and get the best possible, most cost-effective outcome. For example, in a diabetes patient, we might use variables such as: age, alcohol use, annual eye/foot exam, BMI, etc. to look for patterns that might influence two outcomes: 1) Diabetic control and 2) The absence of progression toward diabetic complications. The notion of our Patient Flight Path is useful at both the conceptual level, as well as the predictive algorithm implementation level.
The Changing Role of Healthcare Data AnalystsHealth Catalyst
The healthcare industry is undergoing a sea change, and healthcare data analysts will play a central role in this transformation. This report explores how the evolution to value-based care is changing the role of healthcare data analysts, how data analysts’ skills can best be applied to achieve value-based objectives and, finally, how Health Catalyst’s most successful health system clients are making this cultural transformation happen in the real world.
Governing Quality in Health Care on the Path to Universal Health Coverage: A ...HFG Project
As countries work to promote and achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), maintaining and improving quality in health care is emerging as a priority. While research has been conducted on service delivery and financing schemes for UHC, little consolidated knowledge or guidance is available on institutional arrangements and their impact on quality of care in the context of UHC.
Responding to this need, the HFG project conducted a literature review to attempt to document global experience in institutional roles and relationships governing quality of care in the health sector, and to identify successful features or factors when structuring institutional roles, responsibilities, and relationships.
Recent Advances in Evidence Based Public Health PracticePrabesh Ghimire
This product is the result of compilation from various sources. I acknowledge all direct and indirect sources although they have not been mentioned explicitly in the document.
This issue features the following pieces:
The Dark Side of Quality
Quality and Other Components of the Value Proposition
What Do Hospitals Want From Anesthesia Groups?
The Physician-Owned Management Services Organization
Should You Apologize for a Poor Outcome?
Thinking of Investing In, or Renting Space In, an ASC?
ICD-10 is the Latest Y2K: The Potential Impact on Provider Revenue
Defining What is Value-Based Care for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Chro...Carevive
The target audiences for these activities are hematologists, medical oncologists, pulmonologists, pathologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, oncology nurses, nurse navigators, palliative/symptom management teams who care for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and quality administrators responsible for their cancer center’s adherence to value-based care delivery models.
Accountability, Health Governance, and Health Systems: Uncovering the LinkagesHFG Project
This report presents findings and analysis related to accountability, its connections to health governance, and links to health system performance. As part of a series on governance interventions that contribute to health system performance, this report aims to increase awareness and understanding of the evidence of what works and why. The report categorizes and reviews evidence from the literature, further informed by several technical experts across a several types of accountability interventions.
Safety is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest CareEngagingPatients
The work of NPSF"s Lucian Leape Institute's Roundtable on Consumer Engagement, "Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care" is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of health care.The report identifies specific action items for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to pursue in making patient and family engagement a core value in the provision of health. care.
Performance Based Incentives to Strengthen Primary Health Care in Haryana Sta...HFG Project
Authors: Susan Gigli, Jenna Wright, Francis Raj and Mudeit Agarwa
Published: February 28, 2015
The Government of Haryana is interested in adopting a performance-based incentive (PBI) scheme aimed at strengthening primary health care results. In December 2014, the HFG project conducted a qualitative investigation among 10 public health facilities in two Blocks in Haryana in order to understand the existing incentive and operating environments and to inform the design of a PBI scheme. This report presents the findings of the formative investigation and relevant contextual information on the health system in the selected districts with a view toward supporting an effective PBI scheme in Haryana. The findings and considerations fed into a stakeholder PBI design workshop in early 2015.
The study suggested strongly that a PBI scheme—communicated clearly and perceived as fair—could lead to a change in the overall work culture from one that inadvertently encourages passivity to one that promotes teamwork, engagement, initiative, transparency and accountability.
Health Care Reform (The Affordable Care Act) .docxisaachwrensch
Health Care Reform (The Affordable Care Act)
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ANA believes that health care is a basic human right (ANA, 1989, ANA, 1998, ANA 2005). Thus, ANA reaffirms its support for a restructured health care system that assures universal access to a standard package of essential health care services for all citizens and residents.”
“ANA believes that the development and implementation of health policies that reflect the six Institute of Medicine (IOM) aims (Safe/Effective/Patient-centered/Timely/Efficient/Equitable) and are based on outcomes research will ultimately save money.”
“The system must be reshaped and redirected away from the overuse of expensive, technology-driven, acute, hospital-based services in the model we now have, to one in which a balance is struck between high-tech treatment and community-based and preventive services, with emphasis on the latter. The solution is to invert the pyramid and focus more on primary care, thus ultimately requiring less costly secondary and tertiary care.”
Activity:
Please read the attached Health Policy Brief on Basic Health Program and “Nursing’s Role in healthcare reform” from American Nurse Today.
Please go to
www.rnaction.org
, go to the Take Action tab above to access the following information regarding health care reform and the new Affordable Care Act. Scroll down the page to the heading Resources and Supreme Court Challenge to learn more about the health care reform and how it affects you as a nurse and as an individual with a family. Check out all the different information.
HealthCare.gov
Keeping health care reform healthy, patients informed
New Animation Explains Changes Coming for Americans Under Obamacare
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Health Care Transformation: The Affordable Care Act and How it Affects Nurses
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Health Care Reform Legislation Timeline
ANA Policy and Provisions of Health Reform Law
National Conference of State Legislatures Health Reform Site
Kaiser Family Foundation Health Reform Page
The Supreme Court Decision Matters for Registered Nurses, their Families, and their Patients
ANA Analysis: Supreme Court Arguments on the ACA
ANA to Supreme Court: ‘Individual Mandate’ Needed to Make Health Reform Work
Then proceed to the Kaiser Foundation to watch the following:
http://kff.org
““Health Care Reform Hits Main Street on the Kaiser Foundation website or Youtube. (2010)
“New Animation Explains Changes Coming to Americans under Obamacare” (2013) Youtube or Kaiser Foundation
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Health insurance Explained: YouToons Have it Covered”
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2014) Youtube or Kaiser Foundation
If you would like more information regarding the ACA, the Kaiser Foundation is a great source and cover many issues.
http://kff.org
Link:
http://kff.org/health-reform/press-release/new-animation-explains-changes-coming-for-americans-under-obamacar.
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
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V PREVENTIVE-PEDIATRICS.pdfSachin Sharma
This content provides an overview of preventive pediatrics. It defines preventive pediatrics as preventing disease and promoting children's physical, mental, and social well-being to achieve positive health. It discusses antenatal, postnatal, and social preventive pediatrics. It also covers various child health programs like immunization, breastfeeding, ICDS, and the roles of organizations like WHO, UNICEF, and nurses in preventive pediatrics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Antibiotic Stewardship by Anushri Srivastava.pptxAnushriSrivastav
Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme