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.
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.
Optimize physician workflow and you’ll contribute to optimizing patient care. But what is it physicians look for to improve diagnoses, decision-making, patient care, and ultimately, outcomes? To answer this, consider what constitutes ideal working conditions in any industry: the right tools, training, and information to maximize productivity and deliver results. Physicians need analytics integrated into the EHR to maximize their efficiency, a common quest among the chronically overworked. And by flowing the universe of global, local, and individual data back into an enterprise data warehouse, a healthcare system can close the analytics loop, and begin to realize true precision medicine.
5 Keys to Improving Hospital Labor ProductivityHealth Catalyst
The shift to value-based payments and a greater focus outcomes and cost reduction has hospital leaders seeking new ways to work more efficiently and improve patient satisfaction. Monitoring and analyzing productivity more effectively is crucial to ensure healthcare organizations are aligned with this goal. Getting overtime and labor productivity under control isn’t an easy task, but it’s not impossible. A few best practices can shorten the learning curve. These include 1) secure leadership commitment, 2) implement data governance, 3) ensure financial targets are defined, 4) create transparency, and 5) keep productivity metric balanced with quality goals.
The 6 Critical Components of Population HealthHealth Catalyst
This article examines how to define population health through a review of the top analytics research firms. It lands on a single theme, but in the process it uncovers six common categories of IT capabilities required to successfully manage population health:
Data Aggregation
Patient Stratification
Care Coordination
Patient Engagement
Performance Reporting
Administrative/Business
These six strategic components define the population health ecosystem, and successful organizations must multitask across these domains, working with an enterprise data warehouse, if they hope to thrive in value-based healthcare and become true partners and assets in their respective communities.
Why Pioneer ACOs Are Disappearing and 3 Trends to Expect from the ExodusHealth Catalyst
Over of half the Pioneer ACOs have dropped from the program in the last four years, despite achieving $304 million in savings, and fifty percent of the participating ACOs receiving shared savings reimbursements. Why the exodus? Overutilization and inconsistent performance benchmarking and attribution hindered the ability of many participants to achieve success. The overall impact of the program, however, has been a positive one for value-based care. In the next 3-5 years, providers and health systems will bear more of the financial risk of the populations they serve. The proliferation of data, and the tools to analyze and exchange it, will be critical to the long-term success of value-based care.
Analytics and Small Hospitals: Embracing Data to Thrive in the New Era of Val...Health Catalyst
Value-based care has remade the healthcare landscape for small hospitals. Many are struggling to compete with the larger, better-funded medical centers in the communities they serve. Embracing data and analytics is no longer a luxury for these organizations if they are to succeed and remain competitive. Data analysis can assist senior leaders in identifying opportunities for improvement while balancing long-term goals with short-term pressures. Incorporating data in to the culture and making it a part of everyday decision making will enable smaller hospitals to not only survive, but thrive in the new era of value-based care.
Predictions, Hopes and Aspirations for U.S. Healthcare in 2015Health Catalyst
Predicting events in healthcare, especially year to year, is incredibly easy because healthcare advances at a glacial rate. Any significant changes that do happen in a year are rare. The IRS and public education may be the only other institutions that move at such a creeping, crawling, reluctant pace. But that's not to say predictions aren't worth trying. And lately, there have been some interesting developments for the healthcare industry that could mean some intriguing change is finally coming our way.
Please join Dale Sanders as he makes his predictions for 2015, some serious, some irreverent, and some simply hopeful aspirations, but all thought provoking and worthy of discussion. Unlike his past webinars where he does all the talking, this time Dale wants to hear from you. So, we'll be opening up the audio lines to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts and votes on Dale's predictions, and share your own predictions for 2015 and beyond, too.
The discussion will cover the following, and more:
The barriers that stand in the way of significant year-to-year changes in US healthcare
The pending Supreme Court decision on state-level insurance subsidies
Mergers & Acquisitions
The looming reality of hidden patient costs from narrow insurance plans
Why the future of healthcare lies in the hands of physicians and patients, not hospitals and insurance companies
And in a less obvious twist, discover how the Denver Broncos will win the next five Super Bowls using spliced genetics.
It's always fun to look ahead and try to predict what might or might not happen. Come prepared to share your opinions,vote on Dale's predictions, and join in for a candid and lively conversation.
How to Establish an Evidence-Based Care Delivery Structure Like Allina HealthHealth Catalyst
Clinicians have to make difficult decisions on a regular basis. And when different clinicians within the same health system make markedly different decisions about medical treatment, significant waste and inconsistent outcomes arise.
What will be discussed?:
Establishing peer-reviewed and approved CPGs
Prioritizing improvements
Developing the CPG checklist
Engaging and collaborating with clinicians
Don't miss hearing firsthand how Allina established a systemwide EBDM model and realized a five percent decrease in Stage 1 lung cancer treatment variation as well as a 20 percent decrease in the number of heparin protocols.
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.
Optimize physician workflow and you’ll contribute to optimizing patient care. But what is it physicians look for to improve diagnoses, decision-making, patient care, and ultimately, outcomes? To answer this, consider what constitutes ideal working conditions in any industry: the right tools, training, and information to maximize productivity and deliver results. Physicians need analytics integrated into the EHR to maximize their efficiency, a common quest among the chronically overworked. And by flowing the universe of global, local, and individual data back into an enterprise data warehouse, a healthcare system can close the analytics loop, and begin to realize true precision medicine.
5 Keys to Improving Hospital Labor ProductivityHealth Catalyst
The shift to value-based payments and a greater focus outcomes and cost reduction has hospital leaders seeking new ways to work more efficiently and improve patient satisfaction. Monitoring and analyzing productivity more effectively is crucial to ensure healthcare organizations are aligned with this goal. Getting overtime and labor productivity under control isn’t an easy task, but it’s not impossible. A few best practices can shorten the learning curve. These include 1) secure leadership commitment, 2) implement data governance, 3) ensure financial targets are defined, 4) create transparency, and 5) keep productivity metric balanced with quality goals.
The 6 Critical Components of Population HealthHealth Catalyst
This article examines how to define population health through a review of the top analytics research firms. It lands on a single theme, but in the process it uncovers six common categories of IT capabilities required to successfully manage population health:
Data Aggregation
Patient Stratification
Care Coordination
Patient Engagement
Performance Reporting
Administrative/Business
These six strategic components define the population health ecosystem, and successful organizations must multitask across these domains, working with an enterprise data warehouse, if they hope to thrive in value-based healthcare and become true partners and assets in their respective communities.
Why Pioneer ACOs Are Disappearing and 3 Trends to Expect from the ExodusHealth Catalyst
Over of half the Pioneer ACOs have dropped from the program in the last four years, despite achieving $304 million in savings, and fifty percent of the participating ACOs receiving shared savings reimbursements. Why the exodus? Overutilization and inconsistent performance benchmarking and attribution hindered the ability of many participants to achieve success. The overall impact of the program, however, has been a positive one for value-based care. In the next 3-5 years, providers and health systems will bear more of the financial risk of the populations they serve. The proliferation of data, and the tools to analyze and exchange it, will be critical to the long-term success of value-based care.
Analytics and Small Hospitals: Embracing Data to Thrive in the New Era of Val...Health Catalyst
Value-based care has remade the healthcare landscape for small hospitals. Many are struggling to compete with the larger, better-funded medical centers in the communities they serve. Embracing data and analytics is no longer a luxury for these organizations if they are to succeed and remain competitive. Data analysis can assist senior leaders in identifying opportunities for improvement while balancing long-term goals with short-term pressures. Incorporating data in to the culture and making it a part of everyday decision making will enable smaller hospitals to not only survive, but thrive in the new era of value-based care.
Predictions, Hopes and Aspirations for U.S. Healthcare in 2015Health Catalyst
Predicting events in healthcare, especially year to year, is incredibly easy because healthcare advances at a glacial rate. Any significant changes that do happen in a year are rare. The IRS and public education may be the only other institutions that move at such a creeping, crawling, reluctant pace. But that's not to say predictions aren't worth trying. And lately, there have been some interesting developments for the healthcare industry that could mean some intriguing change is finally coming our way.
Please join Dale Sanders as he makes his predictions for 2015, some serious, some irreverent, and some simply hopeful aspirations, but all thought provoking and worthy of discussion. Unlike his past webinars where he does all the talking, this time Dale wants to hear from you. So, we'll be opening up the audio lines to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts and votes on Dale's predictions, and share your own predictions for 2015 and beyond, too.
The discussion will cover the following, and more:
The barriers that stand in the way of significant year-to-year changes in US healthcare
The pending Supreme Court decision on state-level insurance subsidies
Mergers & Acquisitions
The looming reality of hidden patient costs from narrow insurance plans
Why the future of healthcare lies in the hands of physicians and patients, not hospitals and insurance companies
And in a less obvious twist, discover how the Denver Broncos will win the next five Super Bowls using spliced genetics.
It's always fun to look ahead and try to predict what might or might not happen. Come prepared to share your opinions,vote on Dale's predictions, and join in for a candid and lively conversation.
How to Establish an Evidence-Based Care Delivery Structure Like Allina HealthHealth Catalyst
Clinicians have to make difficult decisions on a regular basis. And when different clinicians within the same health system make markedly different decisions about medical treatment, significant waste and inconsistent outcomes arise.
What will be discussed?:
Establishing peer-reviewed and approved CPGs
Prioritizing improvements
Developing the CPG checklist
Engaging and collaborating with clinicians
Don't miss hearing firsthand how Allina established a systemwide EBDM model and realized a five percent decrease in Stage 1 lung cancer treatment variation as well as a 20 percent decrease in the number of heparin protocols.
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.
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
What Is the ROI of Investing in a Healthcare Data AnalystHealth Catalyst
Making the most of a healthcare data analyst’s knowledge is a key component to getting the best ROI from a hospital improvement project. But all too often, analysts serve merely as data validators — they justify the data that leadership wants validated. Because analysts aren’t decision makers, they don’t have the authority to ask the questions that can save a health system millions. Empowering analysts, however, enables them to ask the right questions — and find the right answers — that will lead to significant savings.
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.
3 Frequent Mistakes in Healthcare Data AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations are recognizing the value of healthcare analytics, especially in their Big Data, population health management, or accountable care initiatives. This is good because without analytics it is difficult to impossible to run these programs successfully. That said, analytics are not the magic bullet and proper process must be in place. The three most common mistakes health systems makes with their healthcare analytics are: 1. Analytics Whiplash- when the analytics goes from one project to another without being able to fully understand the data and what it’s saying. 2. Coloring the Truth- When analysts don’t feel like they can be completely forthcoming with information and only give leadership the news they want to hear. 3. Deceitful Visualizations- Manipulating charts, graphs, and the like to reflect what the analyst or leadership wants the data to say, rather than what it actually says.
Breaking All the Rules: What the Leading Health Systems Do Differently with A...Health Catalyst
Voluntarily or not, we are entering the Age of Analytics in healthcare. As the healthcare industry emerges from the deployment of EMR’s and health information exchanges, enterprise data warehouses represent the next significant opportunity in information technology.
However, the meaningful use of an enterprise data warehouse is much more difficult to achieve than the meaningful use of an EMR. There are scant few organizations in healthcare that have achieved excellence in the “meaningful use” of an enterprise data warehouse.
Fortunate to see both failings and successes, Dale Sanders has spent the last 18 years analyzing the characteristics of healthcare analytics and data warehousing leadership. Join him as he shares his observations and lessons to help you and your organization become one of the success stories.
Presentation Covers:
Why C-level involvement is important, but not a guarantee of success, and can sometimes be a hindrance
The pivotal characteristics of culture, strategy, and execution that are critical to data warehousing and analytics success
How to balance tactical analytic victories without sacrificing strategic adaptability and scalability
Rising Healthcare Costs: Why We Have to ChangeHealth Catalyst
With rising healthcare costs, we hear so often about rate pressures on hospitals and the risk these pressures pose for their future. With healthcare reform, the burden of rising healthcare costs is shifting from payers to providers. Hospitals need to move toward value-based reimbursement models or they will face a -15.8 operating margin by 2021.Over the last 15 years premiums and employee contributions for an average family with health insurance sponsored by an employer have risen 167%. Along with these facts, government payers are reimbursing at lower levels becoming a negative margin for hospitals. These changes are not necessarily easy and can seem overwhelming. The question is whether your hospital will be a pioneer on the trail or will delay until it’s too late. The best way to get started is to understand exactly where you are today—your current cost structure and how each area of your organization is performing in terms of quality and cost, using an EDW.
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.
Tackling the Challenge of Effective Patient Engagement: How Health Catalyst i...Health Catalyst
Effective population health management within a provider organization is an interesting combination of technology, change management, and modified financial incentives. Turns out, managing a team member population to the same goals requires a similar set of tools and effort. It is possible to improve team member clinical outcomes (both individually and as a population) while driving down both corporate and personal health costs.
Join Jeff as he draws parallels between managing these surprisingly similar groups, using tools and principles that guide our thinking across both our client patient populations and our corporate team member populations, and suggests strategies for corporations to improve outcomes for their most important asset – their people.
Wednesday, June 8
1-2PM EST
Attendees will learn:
Parallels between patient and employee populations, and how one group informs the other for success.
Effective strategies Health Catalyst employs for both populations.
The “gamification” of wellness programs, and how this will drive future patient engagement and care management.
Outsourced vs. In-house Healthcare Analytics: Pros and ConsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare analytics are essential for organizations to thrive in the new healthcare environment. Using analytics, systems can evaluate efficiency, effectiveness, and find improvement opportunities. There are two principal approaches: outsourcing the analytics function to benchmarking companies and providers of software-as-a-service; and doing analytics in-house with a system’s own data warehouse. The pros of outsourcing include gaining benchmarking access to how health system peers are performing. The cons to outsourcing include focusing too much high-level outcomes with no insight in how to effect change. The pros of in-house analytics include having quick access to fine-grained details of the data and being able to include clinicians in the implementation and development of the analytics process. A con is that in-house analytics can require significant resources – an investment in the right personnel and right technology.
Going Beyond Genomics in Precision Medicine: What's NextHealth Catalyst
Precision medicine processes, while involving genomics, are not confined to working with data about an individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle. Precision medicine also means putting patients on the right path of care, taking into consideration other individual tolerances, such as participation and cost. Precision medicine processes incorporate data beyond the individual, pulling in socio-economic data, as well as relevant internal and external data, to create an entire patient data ecosystem. With reusable data modules, this information is processed within a closed-loop analytics framework to facilitate clinical decision making at the point of care. This optimizes clinical workflow, thus leading to more precise medicine.
How to Improve Clinical Programs by Breaking the Cycle of Waste in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
To succeed with value-based care, health systems must demonstrate to CMS they operate more effectively, efficiently, and safely. This requires organizations to identify and improve three types of waste commonly found in clinical programs: ordering waste, workflow and operational variations waste, and defect waste. Finding these areas, however, requires three critical solutions: an EDW, a KPA Application, and organizational readiness assessments.
A CEO's Keys to Continuous Quality ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations will not survive this unstable environment without a vision and a plan. Even with rapidly declining reimbursement that makes resource allocation tight, a CEO must address what it will cost to sustain a commitment to quality and then move forward in building capacity into the organization to provide that quality.
Join Greg Stock, chief executive officer of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, as he shares how Thibodaux strives for the Triple Aim using the following keys to successful continuous quality improvement:
Engaging physicians and other influencers to bring together the right people for effective collaboration
Leveraging a data warehouse to identify opportunities for improvement, have a single source of truth to support decisions, and rapidly implement change
Spreading expertise across the organization, or ensuring individuals take the knowledge and skills they have acquired and apply them to other problem areas throughout the organization
Don’t miss hearing this CEO’s experiences with a methodology that The Joint Commission calls “best practice in how to use data and get physicians engaged.”
Laying the Foundation for Sustainable Change and SuccessHealth Catalyst
In the initial presentation in this series, we examined the historical, cultural, financial and social forces that have defined and shaped the healthcare system and the dynamics that are irreversibly driving the need for change. Now, it is time to focus on a review of emerging concepts and methods that will allow healthcare organizations to adapt to a rapidly changing future. This slides will focus on the improvement concepts, methods and tools that individuals and organizations need to consider in order to address the challenges facing healthcare and successfully ride the wave of change sweeping across the industry.
Improving Patient Safety and Quality Through Culture, Clinical Analytics, Evi...Health Catalyst
According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 70,000 patients die each year from hospital-associated infections (HAIs): contrast the CDC statistic with the fact that only 35,000 people die each year in the U.S. from motor vehicle accidents. Learn key best practices in patient safety and quality including: patient safety as a team sport, the added challenges of healthcare being the most complex, adaptive system, and how culture, analytics, and content contribute to improve outcomes and lower costs.
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.
From Installed to Stalled: Why Sustaining Outcomes Improvement Requires More ...Health Catalyst
The big first step toward building an outcomes improvement program is installing the analytics platform. But it’s certainly not the only step. Sustaining healthcare outcomes improvement is a triathlon, and the three legs are:
Installing an analytics platform
Gaining adoption
Implementing best practices
The program requires buy-in, enthusiasm, even evangelizing of analytics and its tools throughout the organization. It also requires that learnings from analysis translate into best practices, otherwise the program fails to produce results and will eventually fade away. Equally important is that top-level leadership across the organization, not just IT, supports and promotes the program ongoing. We explore each of the elements and how they come together to create successful and sustainable outcomes improvement that defines leading healthcare organizations.
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
Improving Healthcare Outcomes: Keep the Triple Aim in MindHealth Catalyst
The battle cry for healthcare organizations throughout the United States? Improve outcomes! However, as organizations begin to measure outcomes they realize not all outcomes are created equal and the question of what constitutes an improvement becomes more challenging. Healthcare leaders would be wise to keep the Triple Aim in mind when creating a strategy for optimizing outcomes. Achieving the appropriate balance among the three dimensions of the Triple Aim is critical to driving real, long-term change in healthcare delivery outcomes.
Engaging Physicians to Be Good Financial StewardsHealth Catalyst
This article, first published by in July 2016 by hfma, outlines how hospitals can get physicians to understand the financial impact of their clinical decisions and become actively engaged in improving the value of care. Texas Children’s Hospital was successful through recognizing the need for cultural transformation and ensuring quality came first. The organization engaged clinicians with financial data, including educating them on key financial principles, linking quality improvement training with financial accountability, and accompanying financial choices with clinical choices.
IT Solutions for Fee for Value Reimbursment and Population Health ManagementJohn Squeo
This presentation highlights some key considerations when building or integrating IT solutions for the emergent payment models evolving in Health Care. Population risk stratification, identifying patients to target for high success rate interventions, and tracking physicians adherence to evidence based medicine using key performance indicators are covered at a high level.
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.
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
What Is the ROI of Investing in a Healthcare Data AnalystHealth Catalyst
Making the most of a healthcare data analyst’s knowledge is a key component to getting the best ROI from a hospital improvement project. But all too often, analysts serve merely as data validators — they justify the data that leadership wants validated. Because analysts aren’t decision makers, they don’t have the authority to ask the questions that can save a health system millions. Empowering analysts, however, enables them to ask the right questions — and find the right answers — that will lead to significant savings.
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.
3 Frequent Mistakes in Healthcare Data AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations are recognizing the value of healthcare analytics, especially in their Big Data, population health management, or accountable care initiatives. This is good because without analytics it is difficult to impossible to run these programs successfully. That said, analytics are not the magic bullet and proper process must be in place. The three most common mistakes health systems makes with their healthcare analytics are: 1. Analytics Whiplash- when the analytics goes from one project to another without being able to fully understand the data and what it’s saying. 2. Coloring the Truth- When analysts don’t feel like they can be completely forthcoming with information and only give leadership the news they want to hear. 3. Deceitful Visualizations- Manipulating charts, graphs, and the like to reflect what the analyst or leadership wants the data to say, rather than what it actually says.
Breaking All the Rules: What the Leading Health Systems Do Differently with A...Health Catalyst
Voluntarily or not, we are entering the Age of Analytics in healthcare. As the healthcare industry emerges from the deployment of EMR’s and health information exchanges, enterprise data warehouses represent the next significant opportunity in information technology.
However, the meaningful use of an enterprise data warehouse is much more difficult to achieve than the meaningful use of an EMR. There are scant few organizations in healthcare that have achieved excellence in the “meaningful use” of an enterprise data warehouse.
Fortunate to see both failings and successes, Dale Sanders has spent the last 18 years analyzing the characteristics of healthcare analytics and data warehousing leadership. Join him as he shares his observations and lessons to help you and your organization become one of the success stories.
Presentation Covers:
Why C-level involvement is important, but not a guarantee of success, and can sometimes be a hindrance
The pivotal characteristics of culture, strategy, and execution that are critical to data warehousing and analytics success
How to balance tactical analytic victories without sacrificing strategic adaptability and scalability
Rising Healthcare Costs: Why We Have to ChangeHealth Catalyst
With rising healthcare costs, we hear so often about rate pressures on hospitals and the risk these pressures pose for their future. With healthcare reform, the burden of rising healthcare costs is shifting from payers to providers. Hospitals need to move toward value-based reimbursement models or they will face a -15.8 operating margin by 2021.Over the last 15 years premiums and employee contributions for an average family with health insurance sponsored by an employer have risen 167%. Along with these facts, government payers are reimbursing at lower levels becoming a negative margin for hospitals. These changes are not necessarily easy and can seem overwhelming. The question is whether your hospital will be a pioneer on the trail or will delay until it’s too late. The best way to get started is to understand exactly where you are today—your current cost structure and how each area of your organization is performing in terms of quality and cost, using an EDW.
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.
Tackling the Challenge of Effective Patient Engagement: How Health Catalyst i...Health Catalyst
Effective population health management within a provider organization is an interesting combination of technology, change management, and modified financial incentives. Turns out, managing a team member population to the same goals requires a similar set of tools and effort. It is possible to improve team member clinical outcomes (both individually and as a population) while driving down both corporate and personal health costs.
Join Jeff as he draws parallels between managing these surprisingly similar groups, using tools and principles that guide our thinking across both our client patient populations and our corporate team member populations, and suggests strategies for corporations to improve outcomes for their most important asset – their people.
Wednesday, June 8
1-2PM EST
Attendees will learn:
Parallels between patient and employee populations, and how one group informs the other for success.
Effective strategies Health Catalyst employs for both populations.
The “gamification” of wellness programs, and how this will drive future patient engagement and care management.
Outsourced vs. In-house Healthcare Analytics: Pros and ConsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare analytics are essential for organizations to thrive in the new healthcare environment. Using analytics, systems can evaluate efficiency, effectiveness, and find improvement opportunities. There are two principal approaches: outsourcing the analytics function to benchmarking companies and providers of software-as-a-service; and doing analytics in-house with a system’s own data warehouse. The pros of outsourcing include gaining benchmarking access to how health system peers are performing. The cons to outsourcing include focusing too much high-level outcomes with no insight in how to effect change. The pros of in-house analytics include having quick access to fine-grained details of the data and being able to include clinicians in the implementation and development of the analytics process. A con is that in-house analytics can require significant resources – an investment in the right personnel and right technology.
Going Beyond Genomics in Precision Medicine: What's NextHealth Catalyst
Precision medicine processes, while involving genomics, are not confined to working with data about an individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle. Precision medicine also means putting patients on the right path of care, taking into consideration other individual tolerances, such as participation and cost. Precision medicine processes incorporate data beyond the individual, pulling in socio-economic data, as well as relevant internal and external data, to create an entire patient data ecosystem. With reusable data modules, this information is processed within a closed-loop analytics framework to facilitate clinical decision making at the point of care. This optimizes clinical workflow, thus leading to more precise medicine.
How to Improve Clinical Programs by Breaking the Cycle of Waste in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
To succeed with value-based care, health systems must demonstrate to CMS they operate more effectively, efficiently, and safely. This requires organizations to identify and improve three types of waste commonly found in clinical programs: ordering waste, workflow and operational variations waste, and defect waste. Finding these areas, however, requires three critical solutions: an EDW, a KPA Application, and organizational readiness assessments.
A CEO's Keys to Continuous Quality ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations will not survive this unstable environment without a vision and a plan. Even with rapidly declining reimbursement that makes resource allocation tight, a CEO must address what it will cost to sustain a commitment to quality and then move forward in building capacity into the organization to provide that quality.
Join Greg Stock, chief executive officer of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, as he shares how Thibodaux strives for the Triple Aim using the following keys to successful continuous quality improvement:
Engaging physicians and other influencers to bring together the right people for effective collaboration
Leveraging a data warehouse to identify opportunities for improvement, have a single source of truth to support decisions, and rapidly implement change
Spreading expertise across the organization, or ensuring individuals take the knowledge and skills they have acquired and apply them to other problem areas throughout the organization
Don’t miss hearing this CEO’s experiences with a methodology that The Joint Commission calls “best practice in how to use data and get physicians engaged.”
Laying the Foundation for Sustainable Change and SuccessHealth Catalyst
In the initial presentation in this series, we examined the historical, cultural, financial and social forces that have defined and shaped the healthcare system and the dynamics that are irreversibly driving the need for change. Now, it is time to focus on a review of emerging concepts and methods that will allow healthcare organizations to adapt to a rapidly changing future. This slides will focus on the improvement concepts, methods and tools that individuals and organizations need to consider in order to address the challenges facing healthcare and successfully ride the wave of change sweeping across the industry.
Improving Patient Safety and Quality Through Culture, Clinical Analytics, Evi...Health Catalyst
According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 70,000 patients die each year from hospital-associated infections (HAIs): contrast the CDC statistic with the fact that only 35,000 people die each year in the U.S. from motor vehicle accidents. Learn key best practices in patient safety and quality including: patient safety as a team sport, the added challenges of healthcare being the most complex, adaptive system, and how culture, analytics, and content contribute to improve outcomes and lower costs.
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.
From Installed to Stalled: Why Sustaining Outcomes Improvement Requires More ...Health Catalyst
The big first step toward building an outcomes improvement program is installing the analytics platform. But it’s certainly not the only step. Sustaining healthcare outcomes improvement is a triathlon, and the three legs are:
Installing an analytics platform
Gaining adoption
Implementing best practices
The program requires buy-in, enthusiasm, even evangelizing of analytics and its tools throughout the organization. It also requires that learnings from analysis translate into best practices, otherwise the program fails to produce results and will eventually fade away. Equally important is that top-level leadership across the organization, not just IT, supports and promotes the program ongoing. We explore each of the elements and how they come together to create successful and sustainable outcomes improvement that defines leading healthcare organizations.
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
Improving Healthcare Outcomes: Keep the Triple Aim in MindHealth Catalyst
The battle cry for healthcare organizations throughout the United States? Improve outcomes! However, as organizations begin to measure outcomes they realize not all outcomes are created equal and the question of what constitutes an improvement becomes more challenging. Healthcare leaders would be wise to keep the Triple Aim in mind when creating a strategy for optimizing outcomes. Achieving the appropriate balance among the three dimensions of the Triple Aim is critical to driving real, long-term change in healthcare delivery outcomes.
Engaging Physicians to Be Good Financial StewardsHealth Catalyst
This article, first published by in July 2016 by hfma, outlines how hospitals can get physicians to understand the financial impact of their clinical decisions and become actively engaged in improving the value of care. Texas Children’s Hospital was successful through recognizing the need for cultural transformation and ensuring quality came first. The organization engaged clinicians with financial data, including educating them on key financial principles, linking quality improvement training with financial accountability, and accompanying financial choices with clinical choices.
IT Solutions for Fee for Value Reimbursment and Population Health ManagementJohn Squeo
This presentation highlights some key considerations when building or integrating IT solutions for the emergent payment models evolving in Health Care. Population risk stratification, identifying patients to target for high success rate interventions, and tracking physicians adherence to evidence based medicine using key performance indicators are covered at a high level.
Reactive Vs. Preventative Healthcare for Seniorsrachelgmoore
Exorbitant costs are breaking the back of the nation's healthcare system, and seniors are shouldering significantly more than their fair share of the burden. A large portion of these costs are due to a reactive healthcare model - one that only addresses problems after they arise.
In this infographic, learn about how a shift towards a preventative care model for seniors can decrease healthcare costs, improve quality of care, and quality of life, as well as some of the technologies senior living and care providers can use to promote preventative care and their organizations.
Get the high resolution version here: http://hubs.ly/y0Yj4b0
Health care has undergone many changes within in the last few years. This presentation identifies the 5 macro-trends associated with the future of health care in the United States.
Healthcare Innovation and Transformation - Dr. Ken YaleKen Yale
We are living in the greatest time in human history! People are living their lives on smartphones and apps, measuring themselves with wearable devices like the Apple Watch, and improving their health and care with advanced analytic algorithms. Healthcare is adopting AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning at an accelerated pace. “Healthcare is very important for people. We are democratizing it. We are taking what has been with the institutions, and empowering the individual to manage their health.
And we’re just getting started!” - Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jan 2019
Six Ways Health Systems Use Analytics to Improve Patient SafetyHealth Catalyst
With preventable patient harm associated with over 400,000 deaths in the U.S. annually, improving safety is a top priority for healthcare organizations. To reduce risks for hospitalized patients, health systems are using patient safety analytics and trigger-based surveillance tools to better understand and recognize the types of harm occurring at their facilities and intervene as early as possible.
Six examples of analytics-driven patient safety success cover improvement in the following areas:
Wrong-patient order errors.
Blood management.
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff).
Opioid dependence.
Event reporting.
Sepsis.
Publicado originalmente en http://www.slideshare.net/EugeneBorukhovich/open-health-data-qualitative-overview
Extraordinaria presentación sobre la aplicación de Open Data en Salud ejemplos y casos de éxito en varios paises.
This qualitative overview of the Open Health Data initiatives is meant to showcase the importance of open health data, social as well as economic impacts across US, UK and a select set of Western European countries. This overview is not meant to be a comprehensive report on all the global initiatives, funding models and tracking of open health data. There are tremendous efforts across the globe to change our global healthcare system and we believe that open health data is one of the keys to bridge the gap between digital citizens & governments. Also, please note that if your country, initiative or product was not mentioned, it is in no way meant to diminish the impact of the efforts. Please feel free to share, discuss and contribute to the list of ongoing efforts and initiatives on one of our global communities or on openhealthdata.org.
Healthcare organizations have worked hard to improve patient safety over the past several decades, however harm is still occurring at an unacceptable rate. Though the healthcare industry has made efforts (largely regulatory) to reduce patient harm, these measures are often not integrated with health system quality improvement efforts and may not result in fewer adverse events. This is largely because they fail to integrate regulatory data with improvement initiatives and, thus, to turn patient harm information into actionable insight.
Fully integrated clinical, cost, and operational data coupled with predictive analytics and machine learning are crucial to patient safety improvement. Tools that leverage this methodology will identify risk and suggest interventions across the continuum of care.
How to Use Data to Improve Patient Safety: Part 2Health Catalyst
Stan and Valere will discuss how using an automated trigger tool for all-cause harm reviews will provide timely, real-time patient safety data useful to drive down harm rates with earlier interventions. Additional benefits of this approach include having a more accurate and robust source of data for identifying harm trends to then be able to integrate the findings into existing quality improvement processes for further quality improvement efforts.
Attendees will learn how to:
Understand the importance of dedicating resources to impact downstream costs
Identify their key sources of Patient Safety data
Integrate Patient Safety data in to existing Quality Improvement Processes
Learn and improve from real-time safety analytics combined with a Culture of Safety
Home Healthcare + Data Science: A Prescription For Our Nation's Readmissions ...Wes Little
A result of over a year's worth of data science research and home healthcare's largest data-set, Kinnser RiskPoint was built to help solve the huge challenge of preventable patient readmissions. If this metric is a top priority for your organization- read here to learn more about the research and early results
Medicine: A State of CRISIS, a State of CHANGELouis Cady, MD
Dr. Cady returns this year to repeat and update one of the most talked about presentations of the 2015 IMMH conference. In this presentation, Dr. Cady deconstructs the pressures and challenges facing patients, physicians, and all health care practitioners in today's practice environment. The role of integrated practice and functional medicine as a "differentiating factor" in one's practice is reviewed. The need for patients to adapt a healthy life style and take responsibility for their health for their own economic self-preservation is also touched on.
Six Proven Methods to Combat COVID-19 with Real-World AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
As data in healthcare becomes more available than ever before, so does the need to apply that data to the unique challenges facing health systems, especially in a pandemic. Even with massive amounts of data, health systems still struggle to move data from spreadsheets to drive change in a clinical setting.
These six methods allow health systems to transform data into real-world analytics, going beyond basic data usage and maximizing actionable insight:
1. Create effective information displays.
2. Add context to data.
3. Ensure data processes are sustainable.
4. Certify data quality.
5. Provide systemwide access to data.
6. Refine the approach to knowledge management.
Advancing data use in healthcare with real-world analytics arms health systems with effective tools to combat COVID-19 and continue delivering quality care driven by comprehensive, actionable insight.
Architecture Before Experience - EuroIA Amsterdam 2016 Bogdan Stanciu
Spending $9.715 per capita (The World Bank, 2013), the United States sits on top of the world of total health expenditures, but ranks only 33rd in population health. With 165.169 mHealth applications available for download to more than two-thirds of Americans who own a smartphone, one might think the digital revolution is going to cure everyone. However, the healthcare industry is failing the care model. Facing disruption in an open, competitive marketplace, the big insurance and big pharma, along with the hospital-based medical systems are trying to ride the wave of digital transformation in the most archaic way: adding a digital silo to their organisational chart. Battling conflicting workflows, poor integrations of a wide range of applications, and legacy policies and infrastructure, digital is as challenged as its peers in the marketing, patient experience, physician relationships, and consumer product departments to produce a comprehensive strategy for transformation. The good news is that medical systems are just that: systems. And like every other systems in the world, they can be designed.
Healthcare costs in the U.S. might be of interest to many. The U.S. is an important non-European country for health economists and decision-analytic modelers because it is a large country in terms of its population size and an even larger market not just but also for health care services and goods. Also, much of not just basic but also translational research including HEOR comes out of the U.S. incl. the original idea for cost-effectiveness analysis.
Regardless of whether you’re American or not, most people have pretty strong ideas about the U.S. Edvard de Bono, not the U2 singer but the originator of the term Lateral Thinking, famously said that the U.S. are not a country but an idea.
This talk attempts to compare the United States’ health care expenditures and outcomes with others around the world; to highlight relevant recent controversies in the U.S. health policy debate related to costs; and to explore why U.S. care is so expensive (and what can be done about it).
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
Each year the CPT and the HCPCS code sets undergo significant changes, and your 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 one in a three-part series, with a CDM focus.
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 non-surgical sections of the CPT book.
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
Prepare for mandatory ICD-10 PCS diagnosis code updates, which take effect on October 1, 2023. By attending this 60-minute educational session, medical coders and healthcare professionals will gain a comprehensive understanding of the changes to the 2024 ICD-10 procedure codes and their guidelines, enabling accurate and compliant coding for optimal billing and reimbursement.
Vitalware Insight Into the 2024 ICD10 CM Updates.pdfHealth Catalyst
Prepare for mandatory ICD-10 CM diagnosis code updates, which take effect on October 1, 2023. By attending this 60-minute educational session, medical coders and healthcare professionals will gain a comprehensive understanding of the changes to the 2024 ICD-10 diagnosis codes and their guidelines, along with major complication or comorbidity (MCC), complication or comorbidity (CC), and Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) classification changes. With this information, professionals can ensure accurate and compliant diagnosis coding for optimal billing and reimbursement.
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
During this webinar you'll learn the following:
The importance of optimizing performance, reducing labor costs and sourcing talent given current market challenges.
Highlighting the need for a balanced approach to cost reduction.
How to reap the benefits of outsourcing (cost cutting, expertise, etc) while protecting yourself from the collateral damage that often comes with them.
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.
Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
This conference will delve into the intricate intersections between mental health, legal frameworks, and the prison system in Bolivia. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges faced by mental health professionals working within the legislative and correctional landscapes. Topics of discussion will include the prevalence and impact of mental health issues among the incarcerated population, the effectiveness of existing mental health policies and legislation, and potential reforms to enhance the mental health support system within prisons.
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
The dimensions of healthcare quality refer to various attributes or aspects that define the standard of healthcare services. These dimensions are used to evaluate, measure, and improve the quality of care provided to patients. A comprehensive understanding of these dimensions ensures that healthcare systems can address various aspects of patient care effectively and holistically. Dimensions of Healthcare Quality and Performance of care include the following; Appropriateness, Availability, Competence, Continuity, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Efficacy, Prevention, Respect and Care, Safety as well as Timeliness.
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.
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, holds immense potential to reshape medicine, agriculture, and our understanding of life. But like any powerful tool, it comes with ethical considerations.
Unveiling CRISPR: This naturally occurring bacterial defense system (crRNA & Cas9 protein) fights viruses. Scientists repurposed it for precise gene editing (correction, deletion, insertion) by targeting specific DNA sequences.
The Promise: CRISPR offers exciting possibilities:
Gene Therapy: Correcting genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis.
Agriculture: Engineering crops resistant to pests and harsh environments.
Research: Studying gene function to unlock new knowledge.
The Peril: Ethical concerns demand attention:
Off-target Effects: Unintended DNA edits can have unforeseen consequences.
Eugenics: Misusing CRISPR for designer babies raises social and ethical questions.
Equity: High costs could limit access to this potentially life-saving technology.
The Path Forward: Responsible development is crucial:
International Collaboration: Clear guidelines are needed for research and human trials.
Public Education: Open discussions ensure informed decisions about CRISPR.
Prioritize Safety and Ethics: Safety and ethical principles must be paramount.
CRISPR offers a powerful tool for a better future, but responsible development and addressing ethical concerns are essential. By prioritizing safety, fostering open dialogue, and ensuring equitable access, we can harness CRISPR's power for the benefit of all. (2998 characters)