Healthcare leaders are eager for a modicum of clarity when it comes to the industry’s shift to value-based healthcare given the uncertainties of Congress and the new Administration.
Fortunately, an analysis of three key pieces of information tells us value-based healthcare is likely here to stay:
The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures).
The Executive Order on reducing the “burden” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Tom Price’s comments at his confirmation hearings.
It is a relatively safe bet that value-based healthcare delivery and payment programs will continue to be supported by federal law and regulation for several reasons:
Bipartisan support: The success of Cures indicates that bipartisan cooperation will continue on key healthcare issues.
Market-based innovation: The emerging evidence is that Congress and the Administration will support innovation in payment and delivery models.
Support for Existing ACA Innovation programs: Although highly uncertain, there are some indications that not all of the ACA will be scrapped.
Employee Wellness: A Combination of Personal Accountability and Corporate Res...Health Catalyst
A strong employee wellness program is the first step to encouraging better health and creating meaningful, positive change in the lives of employees and their families. A well-designed healthcare insurance plan, a comprehensive wellness program, and creating a culture of personal accountability for wellness can optimize healthcare spending and improve employee health. It can also bolster the understanding and shared accountability for healthcare costs between the employees and the company.
7 Features of Highly Effective Outcomes Improvement ProjectsHealth Catalyst
There’s a formula for success when putting together outcomes improvement projects and organizing the teams that make them prosper. Too often, critically strategic projects launch without the proper planning, structure, and people in place to ensure viability and long-term sustainability. They never achieve the critical mass required to realize substantial improvements, or they do, but then the project fades away and the former state returns. The formula for enduring success follows seven simple steps:
Take an Accountability Versus Outcomes Focus
Define Your Goal and Aim Statements Early and Stick to Them
Assign an Owner of the Analytics (Report or Application) Up Front
Get End Users Involved In the Process
Design to Make Doing the Right Thing Easy
Don’t Underestimate the Power of 1:1 Training
Get the Champion Involved
Landmark Review of Population Health ManagementHealth Catalyst
Population health management (PHM) is in its early stages of maturity, suffering from inconsistent definitions and understanding, overhyped by vendors and ill-defined by the industry. Healthcare IT vendors are labeling themselves with this new and popular term, quite often simply re-branding their old-school, fee-for-service, and encounter-based analytic solutions. Even the analysts —KLAS, Chilmark, IDC, and others—are also having a difficult time classifying the market. In this paper, I identify and define 12 criteria that any health system will want to consider in evaluating population health management companies. The reality of the market is that there is no single vendor that can provide a complete PHM solution today. However there are a group of vendors that provide a subset of capabilities that are certainly useful for the next three years. In this paper, I discuss the criteria and try my best to share an unbiased evaluation of sample of the PHM companies in this space.
Top 7 Financial Healthcare Trends and Challenges for 2016Health Catalyst
Healthcare financial leaders will encounter a myriad of challenges and improvement opportunities in 2016. This year will force health system financial leadership to focus and prioritize, with challenges including increased healthcare spending, continued momentum toward value-based care, and the need to reexamine the revenue cycle after years of focusing so intently on ICD-10. But 2016’s financial healthcare trends include more than just challenges; exciting opportunities abound, from using technology to engage patients to a national focus on population health.
For the past several years, Bobbi Brown, our Vice President of Financial Engagement, has shared her predictions on trends and challenges that face the industry. We are happy to give the opportunity once again this year with a new webinar highlighting her top seven financial healthcare trends of 2016. Bobbi will also share the attributes necessary for healthcare leaders—particularly the characteristics of effective change leaders (resilient, collaborative, and inspirational)—to overcome challenges and make improvements to stay ahead of the curve in 2016.
Attendees will understand
The impact of these top seven trends to their organization.
Where to focus their quality improvement and efforts
How these 2016 trends will increase the need for healthcare data analytics.
It's always interesting to look ahead and try to predict what might or might not happen. Come prepared to share your opinions, vote on Bobbi’s predictions, and join in for a candid and lively conversation.
Why Precise, Tailored Patient Registries Lead to Cost-Effective Care Manageme...Health Catalyst
Early this year, CMS began a per member per month reimbursement for Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions. It immediately validated the need for care management programs. Three models are used to measure the savings of an effective care management program:
Historical or intent-to-treat design
Matching comparison design
Randomized control design
All three place a heavy reliance on data and precise, tailored patient registries. Reliable patient registries are one of the most valuable tools in the care management toolbox. And the means to that reliability is an enterprise data warehouse, which essentially gives program managers an all-access pass to stratifying patient risk and leads to a more successful population health initiative.
The Top Seven Quick Wins You Get with a Healthcare Data WarehouseHealth Catalyst
In an industry known for its complex challenges that can take years to overcome, health systems can leverage healthcare data warehouses to generate seven quick wins—reporting and analytics efficiencies that empower healthcare organizations to thrive in a value-based world:
Provides significantly faster access to data.
Improves data-driven decision making.
Enables a data-driven culture.
Provides world class report automation.
Significantly improves data quality and accuracy.
Provides significantly faster product implementation.
Improves data categorization and organization.
Health systems that leverage healthcare data warehouses position themselves to do more than just survive the transition to value-based care; they empower themselves to achieve and sustain long-term outcomes improvement by enabling data-driven decision making based on high quality data.
How to Measure Health Outcomes that Matter to EveryoneHealth Catalyst
To measure health outcomes that matter to everyone, it’s important to ask several questions before starting out:
How do regulatory requirements differ from outcomes improvement?
Do the measurements align with organizational goals and values?
Are the measurements worth the resources required to document them?
Will the metrics actually be applied to outcomes improvement?
Who are the beneficiaries of the outcomes improvement initiative?
The answers to these questions help save time and resources, sustain and expand the improvement effort, refine the list of measures to those that truly improve outcomes, and most of all, help avoid the outcomes measures graveyard.
Use Well-Crafted Aim Statements To Achieve Clinical Quality ImprovementsHealth Catalyst
Too often, hospitals and health systems stop at developing broad clinical quality improvement statements that come up short of achieving their desired goals. What’s missing are clearly defined improvement objectives in the form of aim statements that take into account the effects on other areas of the organization: patient safety and satisfaction, physician engagement, and financial contribution. Aim statements help articulate the problems that add value for patients and the organization, but good data, and the analytics tools required to understand the data, are essential to illuminating high-value problem areas. Additionally, aim statements must stick to the SMART guidelines: Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
Employee Wellness: A Combination of Personal Accountability and Corporate Res...Health Catalyst
A strong employee wellness program is the first step to encouraging better health and creating meaningful, positive change in the lives of employees and their families. A well-designed healthcare insurance plan, a comprehensive wellness program, and creating a culture of personal accountability for wellness can optimize healthcare spending and improve employee health. It can also bolster the understanding and shared accountability for healthcare costs between the employees and the company.
7 Features of Highly Effective Outcomes Improvement ProjectsHealth Catalyst
There’s a formula for success when putting together outcomes improvement projects and organizing the teams that make them prosper. Too often, critically strategic projects launch without the proper planning, structure, and people in place to ensure viability and long-term sustainability. They never achieve the critical mass required to realize substantial improvements, or they do, but then the project fades away and the former state returns. The formula for enduring success follows seven simple steps:
Take an Accountability Versus Outcomes Focus
Define Your Goal and Aim Statements Early and Stick to Them
Assign an Owner of the Analytics (Report or Application) Up Front
Get End Users Involved In the Process
Design to Make Doing the Right Thing Easy
Don’t Underestimate the Power of 1:1 Training
Get the Champion Involved
Landmark Review of Population Health ManagementHealth Catalyst
Population health management (PHM) is in its early stages of maturity, suffering from inconsistent definitions and understanding, overhyped by vendors and ill-defined by the industry. Healthcare IT vendors are labeling themselves with this new and popular term, quite often simply re-branding their old-school, fee-for-service, and encounter-based analytic solutions. Even the analysts —KLAS, Chilmark, IDC, and others—are also having a difficult time classifying the market. In this paper, I identify and define 12 criteria that any health system will want to consider in evaluating population health management companies. The reality of the market is that there is no single vendor that can provide a complete PHM solution today. However there are a group of vendors that provide a subset of capabilities that are certainly useful for the next three years. In this paper, I discuss the criteria and try my best to share an unbiased evaluation of sample of the PHM companies in this space.
Top 7 Financial Healthcare Trends and Challenges for 2016Health Catalyst
Healthcare financial leaders will encounter a myriad of challenges and improvement opportunities in 2016. This year will force health system financial leadership to focus and prioritize, with challenges including increased healthcare spending, continued momentum toward value-based care, and the need to reexamine the revenue cycle after years of focusing so intently on ICD-10. But 2016’s financial healthcare trends include more than just challenges; exciting opportunities abound, from using technology to engage patients to a national focus on population health.
For the past several years, Bobbi Brown, our Vice President of Financial Engagement, has shared her predictions on trends and challenges that face the industry. We are happy to give the opportunity once again this year with a new webinar highlighting her top seven financial healthcare trends of 2016. Bobbi will also share the attributes necessary for healthcare leaders—particularly the characteristics of effective change leaders (resilient, collaborative, and inspirational)—to overcome challenges and make improvements to stay ahead of the curve in 2016.
Attendees will understand
The impact of these top seven trends to their organization.
Where to focus their quality improvement and efforts
How these 2016 trends will increase the need for healthcare data analytics.
It's always interesting to look ahead and try to predict what might or might not happen. Come prepared to share your opinions, vote on Bobbi’s predictions, and join in for a candid and lively conversation.
Why Precise, Tailored Patient Registries Lead to Cost-Effective Care Manageme...Health Catalyst
Early this year, CMS began a per member per month reimbursement for Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions. It immediately validated the need for care management programs. Three models are used to measure the savings of an effective care management program:
Historical or intent-to-treat design
Matching comparison design
Randomized control design
All three place a heavy reliance on data and precise, tailored patient registries. Reliable patient registries are one of the most valuable tools in the care management toolbox. And the means to that reliability is an enterprise data warehouse, which essentially gives program managers an all-access pass to stratifying patient risk and leads to a more successful population health initiative.
The Top Seven Quick Wins You Get with a Healthcare Data WarehouseHealth Catalyst
In an industry known for its complex challenges that can take years to overcome, health systems can leverage healthcare data warehouses to generate seven quick wins—reporting and analytics efficiencies that empower healthcare organizations to thrive in a value-based world:
Provides significantly faster access to data.
Improves data-driven decision making.
Enables a data-driven culture.
Provides world class report automation.
Significantly improves data quality and accuracy.
Provides significantly faster product implementation.
Improves data categorization and organization.
Health systems that leverage healthcare data warehouses position themselves to do more than just survive the transition to value-based care; they empower themselves to achieve and sustain long-term outcomes improvement by enabling data-driven decision making based on high quality data.
How to Measure Health Outcomes that Matter to EveryoneHealth Catalyst
To measure health outcomes that matter to everyone, it’s important to ask several questions before starting out:
How do regulatory requirements differ from outcomes improvement?
Do the measurements align with organizational goals and values?
Are the measurements worth the resources required to document them?
Will the metrics actually be applied to outcomes improvement?
Who are the beneficiaries of the outcomes improvement initiative?
The answers to these questions help save time and resources, sustain and expand the improvement effort, refine the list of measures to those that truly improve outcomes, and most of all, help avoid the outcomes measures graveyard.
Use Well-Crafted Aim Statements To Achieve Clinical Quality ImprovementsHealth Catalyst
Too often, hospitals and health systems stop at developing broad clinical quality improvement statements that come up short of achieving their desired goals. What’s missing are clearly defined improvement objectives in the form of aim statements that take into account the effects on other areas of the organization: patient safety and satisfaction, physician engagement, and financial contribution. Aim statements help articulate the problems that add value for patients and the organization, but good data, and the analytics tools required to understand the data, are essential to illuminating high-value problem areas. Additionally, aim statements must stick to the SMART guidelines: Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
Governance in Healthcare: Leadership for Successful ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Successful outcomes improvement in healthcare requires strong leadership to make decisions, allocate resources, and prioritize initiatives. For improvement to succeed and endure, health systems can’t leave any part of leadership to chance. Instead, effective governance requires thoughtful, deliberate development. Otherwise, improvement initiatives stall or fail to launch, as stakeholders debate goals and strategies. To succeed, governance structure must be solid enough to withstand any challenges to improvement initiatives—from resource constraints to skeptics. Effective governance in healthcare operates with four guiding principles:
Engage the right stakeholders.
Establish a shared understanding of objectives.
Align incentives and rules of engagement.
Practice disciplined prioritization.
A Guide to Applying Quality improvement to Healthcare Five PrinciplesHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is an art and a science. What many in the industry don’t understand is that systems and processes can coexist with personalized care. Quality improvement methods can be as effective in healthcare as they have been in other industries (e.g., agriculture, manufacturing, etc.).
Quality improvement in healthcare is not just achievable, it’s an absolute necessity given the amount of wasteful spending in the U.S. on healthcare. Organizations can reduce this wasteful spending while improving their processes by applying these five guiding principles:
Facilitate adoption through hands-on improvement projects.
Define quality and get agreement.
Measure for improvement, not accountability.
Use a quality improvement framework and PDSA cycles.
Learn from variation in data.
By using these principles and starting small, organizations can quicken the pace of quality improvement in healthcare.
The 100-Percent Solution to Improving Healthcare’s Operating MarginsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations face unparalleled pressure to increase operating margins as they adapt to the revenue compression from COVID-19 and growing competition from insurers and digital disrupters. Yet, many health systems rely on outdated, revenue-centric cost accounting solutions that are ill equipped for strategic financial decision making. As a methodology for today’s complex healthcare environment, activity-based costing (ABC) can capture healthcare resource use at a granular level. With this service-level insight into clinical cost, ABC provides actionable intelligence to help organizations improve profitability and make strategic cost-reduction decisions. These comprehensive costing solutions give health systems a full understanding of cost across the care continuum—the only level of insight that will enable strategic cost transformation in the industry’s new normal.
Outcomes improvement: what you get when you mix good data with physician enga...Health Catalyst
The prescription for improving healthcare outcomes is pretty straightforward: improve quality by working with good data that’s based on patient perceptions of quality, as well as functional health outcomes. Then make that data accessible and actionable among your physicians and give them the leeway they need to reduce variation and, ultimately, improve outcomes. As simple as this may seem, it’s been complicated by an inefficient data infrastructure with non-standardized components (EHRs) and the inability to distribute analyses and visualizations where they are needed most (at the point of care). Dale Sanders explains these issues in detail and outlines solutions in this article published in the April 2015 edition of BMJ Outcomes.
Turn Research Into Care Delivery Improvements Using the Research Analytics Ad...Health Catalyst
Research is a complex yet vital component of improving care delivery, and it can be hindered by a variety of organizational and technical roadblocks:
Insufficient tools and processes
Poor infrastructure
No single source of truth for data
Health systems can overcome these common research roadblocks and turn analytics-powered research into care delivery improvements by using the Research Analytics Adoption model as a strategic roadmap.
The model consists of 8 levels designed to align operations and research priorities:
De-identified tools and data marts
Delivery of customized data sets
EDW-facilitated study recruitment
Centralized, research-specific data collection
Automated research operations reporting
Biobank/genomic data integration
Multi-site data sharing
Translational Analytics
Quality Improvement In Healthcare: Where Is The Best Place To Start?Health Catalyst
One of the biggest challenges providers face in their quality improvement efforts is knowing where to get started. In my experience, one of the best ways to overcome that “where do we begin?” factor is by using data from an enterprise data warehouse to look for high-cost areas where there are large variations in how health care is delivered. Variation found through the KPA is an indicator of opportunity. The more avoidable variation that is reflected in a particular care process, the more opportunity there is to reduce that variation and standardize the process. Suppose after performing a KPA you discover three areas of opportunity. How do you determine which one to pursue, especially if it’s your first journey into process improvement? The most obvious answer would seem to be the one with the largest potential ROI. That may not always be the best course to pursue, however. You will also want to take into consideration the readiness/openness to change in each of those areas.
Clinical Quality Improvement - Dr. Croston's 7 TipsHealth Catalyst
Starting a clinical quality improvement initiative requires shifting from a personality-centric culture to one that is data-driven, with near real-time data to help providers make better decisions and improve the quality of outcomes. But turning plentiful data into meaningful information represents a significant change. From Dr. J. Kevin Croston, MD, CMO at North Memorial Health Care, here are seven tips to gaining physician buy-in: 1. Get the Physicians Engaged Early; 2. Find Champions Among the Medical Leadership; 3. If Your Project Is Large, Choose One Area of Focus; 4. Build a Broad but Specific Guidance Team; 5. One You Have Plan, Follow It; 6. Make the Results Data-driven; 7. Be an Agent for Change
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.
Preparing for the Future: How one ACO is Using Analytics to Drive Clinical & ...Health Catalyst
Crystal Run Healthcare — a physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and one of the first ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program — is experiencing the long-anticipated shift toward more value-based reimbursement.
To ensure financial stability as they assume more risk, Crystal Run is implementing a strategy focused on rapid growth and aligning physician reimbursement with favorable patient outcomes. To effectively execute on this strategy they knew they needed to become more data-driven. Webinar attendees will learn how this ACO is using advanced analytics to execute on their population management and growth strategies with a focus on continuous improvement in the following areas:
Ensuring patient care aligns with evidence based practices
Reducing inappropriate clinical variation
Enhancing operational efficiency
Analyzing data from a “single source of truth” integrated from their EMR, billing, costing, patient satisfaction and other operational systems
Making “self-service analytics” available to decision-makers to decrease time to decision
Please join Greg Spencer, MD, Chief Medical & Chief Medical Information Officer and Scott Hines, MD, Chief Quality Officer and Medical Specialties Medical Director, Crystal Run, as they discuss how advanced analytics is helping position the ACO for continued success in an increasingly value-based reimbursement environment.
The Top Five Recommendations for Improving the Patient ExperienceHealth Catalyst
Improving patient satisfaction scores and the overall patient experience of care is a top priority for health systems. It’s a key quality domain in the CMS Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program (25 percent) and it’s an integral part of the IHI Triple Aim. But, despite the fact that health systems realize the importance of improving the patient experience of care, they often use patient satisfaction as a driver for outcomes. This article challenges this notion, instead recommending that they use patient satisfaction as a balance measure; one of five key recommendations for improving the patient experience:
Use patient satisfaction as a balance measure—not a driver for outcomes.
Evaluate entire care teams—not individual providers.
Use healthcare analytics to understand and act on data.
Leverage innovative technology.
Improve employee engagement.
This article also explains why patient experience is so closely tied to quality of care, and why it’s a prime indicator of a healthcare organization’s overall health.
How to Evaluate a Clinical Analytics Vendor: A ChecklistHealth Catalyst
Based on 25 years of healthcare IT experience, Dale outlines a detailed set of criteria for evaluating clinical analytic vendors. These criteria include 1) completeness of vision, 2) culture and values of senior leadership, 3) ability to execute, 4) technology adaptability and supportability, 5) total cost of ownership, 6) company viability, and 7) nine elements of technical specificity including data modeling, master data management, metadata, white space data, visualization, security, ETL, performance and utilization metrics, hardware and software infrastructure.
Remote Healthcare Work: Best Practices amid COVID-19Health Catalyst
With no known end to the COVID-19 social distancing directives, many healthcare organizations are shifting some team members to remote work arrangements. Clinicians offering telehealth services, case managers, as well as administrative, financial, and IT teams and others contributing away from the frontlines of care are candidates to work from home while continuing to support their organization’s operations. Though a shift in normal processes, research has shown that remote workers can be as or more productive as they are in the office setting and often report high levels of job satisfaction. Following best practices for remote-first work will help team members, managers, and organizations transition to and thrive in a distributed setting.
Why Most Analytic Applications Will Never Be Able to Significantly Improve He...Health Catalyst
The availability of healthcare IT solutions can be overwhelming and all promise to solve an organization’s most pressing issues. While typical data and analytic applications are excellent at exposing opportunities for improvement that are impacting the bottom line, most are not effective at helping the organization determine what to do to address them and improve outcomes. However, a new approach to creating analytics applications is emerging. Analytics applications that incorporate best practices clinical content along with the best practices visualizations help everyone understand the problem and the solution. These applications also enable clinicians to better understand, adopt, roll out, and execute outcome improvement initiatives with healthcare systems. Health Catalyst has deliberately created a comprehensive, dynamic suite of applications that integrate clinical content and facilitate the orderly implementation of action plans.
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.
Reducing Unwanted Variation in Healthcare Clears the Way for Outcomes Improve...Health Catalyst
According to statistician W. Edwards Deming, “Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.” The statement is particularly true of outcomes improvement in healthcare, where variation threatens quality across processes and outcomes. To improve outcomes, health systems must recognize where and how inconsistency impacts their outcomes and reduce unwanted variation.
There are three key steps to reducing unwanted variation:
Remove obstacles to success on a communitywide level.
Maintain open lines of communication and share lessons learned.
Decrease the magnitude of variation.
Linking Clinical And Financial Data: The Key To Real Quality And Cost OutHealth Catalyst
Since accountable care took the healthcare industry by a storm in 2010, health systems have had to move from their predictable revenue streams based on volume to a model that includes quality measures. While the switch will ultimately improve both quality and cost outcomes, health systems now need the capability of tracking and analyzing the data from both clinical and financial systems. A late-binding enterprise data warehouse provides the flexible architecture that makes it possible to liberate both kinds of data to link it together to provide a full picture of trends and opportunities.
The Deployment System: Creating the Organizational Infrastructure to Support ...Health Catalyst
Join Dr. Haughom as he continues the next installment in his webinar series. He will help participants to better understand the key components of an effective deployment system that supports sustainable large-scale improvements in quality, safety and efficiency. He will also continue his live demonstration of the power of modern analytics in managing the health of populations.
Attendees will learn:
Through a live demonstration, the use of analytics to identify potential risk by understanding the size of disease populations and their risk profiles
How to effectively engage opinion leaders in quality improvement and move the entire organization’s workforce forward
How to organize teams that take ownership of the organization’s quality, cost and patient satisfaction improvement strategy
The elements of an effective team structure and governance model for quality improvement
The implementation of an agile, or iterative, approach that fosters continuous improvement
The integration of Lean process improvements with the measurement system to achieve and sustain improvement gains
Implicit Bias Training Helps Eliminate Healthcare DisparitiesHealth Catalyst
From hospitals and clinics to data warehousing companies, overcoming implicit biases with the help of up-to-date data can improve patient care and team member equity. Allina Health and Health Catalyst used data to discover that implicit biases existed within their companies.
At Allina Health, these implicit biases proved to be a barrier to patient care. They negatively impacted patient access to important resources like hospice care. At Health Catalyst, the leadership team realized there was a lack of women in leadership positions and a general lack of diversity in the technology sector.
Leadership teams at both organizations invested in creating implicit bias trainings to equip team members with tools to overcome their biases.
A Five-Step Audit for Peak Charge Capture PerformanceHealth Catalyst
As health systems strive for financial growth and stability in a pandemic and shifting healthcare market, leaders often overlook a key opportunity to maximize profit margins for services rendered—a charge capture audit. A charge capture audit takes a deep dive into the charge capture process, exposing root causes of costly errors and suboptimal processes.
These five steps derive critical insight to help health systems apply interventions and restore revenue integrity:
1. Set the standard.
2. Measure current practice against the standard.
3. Compare the results at the standard to practice.
4. Change the practice to best practice.
5. Re-audit.
Preparing for the Coming Change: An Overview of the Healthcare Analytics MarketHealth Catalyst
Jim Adams, Executive Director, The Advisory Board, discusses the two market forces in particular, population health management and the retail revolution, that are driving the need for new applications of analytics and business intelligence (BI).
Attendees will learn:
The role of analytics in population health and the growing retail market
The key challenges provider organizations are facing in developing analytics capabilities
The pros and cons of the core strategies providers are utilizing to develop analytics capabilities and the vendors that map to those strategies
Bring your most pressing healthcare problems and spend an hour listening to one of the most seasoned industry analysts talking through the top forces shifting the landscape of the healthcare market in 2015.
We hope you'll come away with some insight and refined thinking about solutions that will drive your work forward. Please do join us.
Healthcare Visualizations: Are You Getting the Entire StoryHealth Catalyst
The emergence of powerful and user-friendly healthcare data visualization programs has transformed analytical reporting. The amount of information conveyed by all types of graphs, symbols, sizes, and colors is staggering. The ability to “drill down” in real-time with increasing levels of granularity enables all manner of analyses. The downside of this data hunger is the creation of simplified, context-free visualizations which may inadvertently lead to misinterpretations, most often in the form of a false positive (believing a change has occurred that really hasn’t). This often leads to knee-jerk reactions to correct the “change” and unnecessary actions being taken that waste time, effort, and money. Avoiding the most common pitfalls will ensure your organization has the most complete picture to drive meaningful change.
Healthcare Dashboards: 3 Keys for Creating Effective and Insightful Executive...Health Catalyst
As the use of data-driven Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) increases, healthcare organizations are adopting Executive Dashboards to track organizational performance. While dashboards deliver insight and identify areas for improvement, they fail to make the data actionable and the value is often offset by the unproductive fire drills and churn they create. There are three keys to create and deploy insightful and effective dashboards successfully:
1. Aggregation of underlying dashboards to create the executive dashboard
2. Establishment of clear ownership and accountability
3. Sustainable process
Governance in Healthcare: Leadership for Successful ImprovementHealth Catalyst
Successful outcomes improvement in healthcare requires strong leadership to make decisions, allocate resources, and prioritize initiatives. For improvement to succeed and endure, health systems can’t leave any part of leadership to chance. Instead, effective governance requires thoughtful, deliberate development. Otherwise, improvement initiatives stall or fail to launch, as stakeholders debate goals and strategies. To succeed, governance structure must be solid enough to withstand any challenges to improvement initiatives—from resource constraints to skeptics. Effective governance in healthcare operates with four guiding principles:
Engage the right stakeholders.
Establish a shared understanding of objectives.
Align incentives and rules of engagement.
Practice disciplined prioritization.
A Guide to Applying Quality improvement to Healthcare Five PrinciplesHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is an art and a science. What many in the industry don’t understand is that systems and processes can coexist with personalized care. Quality improvement methods can be as effective in healthcare as they have been in other industries (e.g., agriculture, manufacturing, etc.).
Quality improvement in healthcare is not just achievable, it’s an absolute necessity given the amount of wasteful spending in the U.S. on healthcare. Organizations can reduce this wasteful spending while improving their processes by applying these five guiding principles:
Facilitate adoption through hands-on improvement projects.
Define quality and get agreement.
Measure for improvement, not accountability.
Use a quality improvement framework and PDSA cycles.
Learn from variation in data.
By using these principles and starting small, organizations can quicken the pace of quality improvement in healthcare.
The 100-Percent Solution to Improving Healthcare’s Operating MarginsHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations face unparalleled pressure to increase operating margins as they adapt to the revenue compression from COVID-19 and growing competition from insurers and digital disrupters. Yet, many health systems rely on outdated, revenue-centric cost accounting solutions that are ill equipped for strategic financial decision making. As a methodology for today’s complex healthcare environment, activity-based costing (ABC) can capture healthcare resource use at a granular level. With this service-level insight into clinical cost, ABC provides actionable intelligence to help organizations improve profitability and make strategic cost-reduction decisions. These comprehensive costing solutions give health systems a full understanding of cost across the care continuum—the only level of insight that will enable strategic cost transformation in the industry’s new normal.
Outcomes improvement: what you get when you mix good data with physician enga...Health Catalyst
The prescription for improving healthcare outcomes is pretty straightforward: improve quality by working with good data that’s based on patient perceptions of quality, as well as functional health outcomes. Then make that data accessible and actionable among your physicians and give them the leeway they need to reduce variation and, ultimately, improve outcomes. As simple as this may seem, it’s been complicated by an inefficient data infrastructure with non-standardized components (EHRs) and the inability to distribute analyses and visualizations where they are needed most (at the point of care). Dale Sanders explains these issues in detail and outlines solutions in this article published in the April 2015 edition of BMJ Outcomes.
Turn Research Into Care Delivery Improvements Using the Research Analytics Ad...Health Catalyst
Research is a complex yet vital component of improving care delivery, and it can be hindered by a variety of organizational and technical roadblocks:
Insufficient tools and processes
Poor infrastructure
No single source of truth for data
Health systems can overcome these common research roadblocks and turn analytics-powered research into care delivery improvements by using the Research Analytics Adoption model as a strategic roadmap.
The model consists of 8 levels designed to align operations and research priorities:
De-identified tools and data marts
Delivery of customized data sets
EDW-facilitated study recruitment
Centralized, research-specific data collection
Automated research operations reporting
Biobank/genomic data integration
Multi-site data sharing
Translational Analytics
Quality Improvement In Healthcare: Where Is The Best Place To Start?Health Catalyst
One of the biggest challenges providers face in their quality improvement efforts is knowing where to get started. In my experience, one of the best ways to overcome that “where do we begin?” factor is by using data from an enterprise data warehouse to look for high-cost areas where there are large variations in how health care is delivered. Variation found through the KPA is an indicator of opportunity. The more avoidable variation that is reflected in a particular care process, the more opportunity there is to reduce that variation and standardize the process. Suppose after performing a KPA you discover three areas of opportunity. How do you determine which one to pursue, especially if it’s your first journey into process improvement? The most obvious answer would seem to be the one with the largest potential ROI. That may not always be the best course to pursue, however. You will also want to take into consideration the readiness/openness to change in each of those areas.
Clinical Quality Improvement - Dr. Croston's 7 TipsHealth Catalyst
Starting a clinical quality improvement initiative requires shifting from a personality-centric culture to one that is data-driven, with near real-time data to help providers make better decisions and improve the quality of outcomes. But turning plentiful data into meaningful information represents a significant change. From Dr. J. Kevin Croston, MD, CMO at North Memorial Health Care, here are seven tips to gaining physician buy-in: 1. Get the Physicians Engaged Early; 2. Find Champions Among the Medical Leadership; 3. If Your Project Is Large, Choose One Area of Focus; 4. Build a Broad but Specific Guidance Team; 5. One You Have Plan, Follow It; 6. Make the Results Data-driven; 7. Be an Agent for Change
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.
Preparing for the Future: How one ACO is Using Analytics to Drive Clinical & ...Health Catalyst
Crystal Run Healthcare — a physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and one of the first ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program — is experiencing the long-anticipated shift toward more value-based reimbursement.
To ensure financial stability as they assume more risk, Crystal Run is implementing a strategy focused on rapid growth and aligning physician reimbursement with favorable patient outcomes. To effectively execute on this strategy they knew they needed to become more data-driven. Webinar attendees will learn how this ACO is using advanced analytics to execute on their population management and growth strategies with a focus on continuous improvement in the following areas:
Ensuring patient care aligns with evidence based practices
Reducing inappropriate clinical variation
Enhancing operational efficiency
Analyzing data from a “single source of truth” integrated from their EMR, billing, costing, patient satisfaction and other operational systems
Making “self-service analytics” available to decision-makers to decrease time to decision
Please join Greg Spencer, MD, Chief Medical & Chief Medical Information Officer and Scott Hines, MD, Chief Quality Officer and Medical Specialties Medical Director, Crystal Run, as they discuss how advanced analytics is helping position the ACO for continued success in an increasingly value-based reimbursement environment.
The Top Five Recommendations for Improving the Patient ExperienceHealth Catalyst
Improving patient satisfaction scores and the overall patient experience of care is a top priority for health systems. It’s a key quality domain in the CMS Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program (25 percent) and it’s an integral part of the IHI Triple Aim. But, despite the fact that health systems realize the importance of improving the patient experience of care, they often use patient satisfaction as a driver for outcomes. This article challenges this notion, instead recommending that they use patient satisfaction as a balance measure; one of five key recommendations for improving the patient experience:
Use patient satisfaction as a balance measure—not a driver for outcomes.
Evaluate entire care teams—not individual providers.
Use healthcare analytics to understand and act on data.
Leverage innovative technology.
Improve employee engagement.
This article also explains why patient experience is so closely tied to quality of care, and why it’s a prime indicator of a healthcare organization’s overall health.
How to Evaluate a Clinical Analytics Vendor: A ChecklistHealth Catalyst
Based on 25 years of healthcare IT experience, Dale outlines a detailed set of criteria for evaluating clinical analytic vendors. These criteria include 1) completeness of vision, 2) culture and values of senior leadership, 3) ability to execute, 4) technology adaptability and supportability, 5) total cost of ownership, 6) company viability, and 7) nine elements of technical specificity including data modeling, master data management, metadata, white space data, visualization, security, ETL, performance and utilization metrics, hardware and software infrastructure.
Remote Healthcare Work: Best Practices amid COVID-19Health Catalyst
With no known end to the COVID-19 social distancing directives, many healthcare organizations are shifting some team members to remote work arrangements. Clinicians offering telehealth services, case managers, as well as administrative, financial, and IT teams and others contributing away from the frontlines of care are candidates to work from home while continuing to support their organization’s operations. Though a shift in normal processes, research has shown that remote workers can be as or more productive as they are in the office setting and often report high levels of job satisfaction. Following best practices for remote-first work will help team members, managers, and organizations transition to and thrive in a distributed setting.
Why Most Analytic Applications Will Never Be Able to Significantly Improve He...Health Catalyst
The availability of healthcare IT solutions can be overwhelming and all promise to solve an organization’s most pressing issues. While typical data and analytic applications are excellent at exposing opportunities for improvement that are impacting the bottom line, most are not effective at helping the organization determine what to do to address them and improve outcomes. However, a new approach to creating analytics applications is emerging. Analytics applications that incorporate best practices clinical content along with the best practices visualizations help everyone understand the problem and the solution. These applications also enable clinicians to better understand, adopt, roll out, and execute outcome improvement initiatives with healthcare systems. Health Catalyst has deliberately created a comprehensive, dynamic suite of applications that integrate clinical content and facilitate the orderly implementation of action plans.
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.
Reducing Unwanted Variation in Healthcare Clears the Way for Outcomes Improve...Health Catalyst
According to statistician W. Edwards Deming, “Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.” The statement is particularly true of outcomes improvement in healthcare, where variation threatens quality across processes and outcomes. To improve outcomes, health systems must recognize where and how inconsistency impacts their outcomes and reduce unwanted variation.
There are three key steps to reducing unwanted variation:
Remove obstacles to success on a communitywide level.
Maintain open lines of communication and share lessons learned.
Decrease the magnitude of variation.
Linking Clinical And Financial Data: The Key To Real Quality And Cost OutHealth Catalyst
Since accountable care took the healthcare industry by a storm in 2010, health systems have had to move from their predictable revenue streams based on volume to a model that includes quality measures. While the switch will ultimately improve both quality and cost outcomes, health systems now need the capability of tracking and analyzing the data from both clinical and financial systems. A late-binding enterprise data warehouse provides the flexible architecture that makes it possible to liberate both kinds of data to link it together to provide a full picture of trends and opportunities.
The Deployment System: Creating the Organizational Infrastructure to Support ...Health Catalyst
Join Dr. Haughom as he continues the next installment in his webinar series. He will help participants to better understand the key components of an effective deployment system that supports sustainable large-scale improvements in quality, safety and efficiency. He will also continue his live demonstration of the power of modern analytics in managing the health of populations.
Attendees will learn:
Through a live demonstration, the use of analytics to identify potential risk by understanding the size of disease populations and their risk profiles
How to effectively engage opinion leaders in quality improvement and move the entire organization’s workforce forward
How to organize teams that take ownership of the organization’s quality, cost and patient satisfaction improvement strategy
The elements of an effective team structure and governance model for quality improvement
The implementation of an agile, or iterative, approach that fosters continuous improvement
The integration of Lean process improvements with the measurement system to achieve and sustain improvement gains
Implicit Bias Training Helps Eliminate Healthcare DisparitiesHealth Catalyst
From hospitals and clinics to data warehousing companies, overcoming implicit biases with the help of up-to-date data can improve patient care and team member equity. Allina Health and Health Catalyst used data to discover that implicit biases existed within their companies.
At Allina Health, these implicit biases proved to be a barrier to patient care. They negatively impacted patient access to important resources like hospice care. At Health Catalyst, the leadership team realized there was a lack of women in leadership positions and a general lack of diversity in the technology sector.
Leadership teams at both organizations invested in creating implicit bias trainings to equip team members with tools to overcome their biases.
A Five-Step Audit for Peak Charge Capture PerformanceHealth Catalyst
As health systems strive for financial growth and stability in a pandemic and shifting healthcare market, leaders often overlook a key opportunity to maximize profit margins for services rendered—a charge capture audit. A charge capture audit takes a deep dive into the charge capture process, exposing root causes of costly errors and suboptimal processes.
These five steps derive critical insight to help health systems apply interventions and restore revenue integrity:
1. Set the standard.
2. Measure current practice against the standard.
3. Compare the results at the standard to practice.
4. Change the practice to best practice.
5. Re-audit.
Preparing for the Coming Change: An Overview of the Healthcare Analytics MarketHealth Catalyst
Jim Adams, Executive Director, The Advisory Board, discusses the two market forces in particular, population health management and the retail revolution, that are driving the need for new applications of analytics and business intelligence (BI).
Attendees will learn:
The role of analytics in population health and the growing retail market
The key challenges provider organizations are facing in developing analytics capabilities
The pros and cons of the core strategies providers are utilizing to develop analytics capabilities and the vendors that map to those strategies
Bring your most pressing healthcare problems and spend an hour listening to one of the most seasoned industry analysts talking through the top forces shifting the landscape of the healthcare market in 2015.
We hope you'll come away with some insight and refined thinking about solutions that will drive your work forward. Please do join us.
Healthcare Visualizations: Are You Getting the Entire StoryHealth Catalyst
The emergence of powerful and user-friendly healthcare data visualization programs has transformed analytical reporting. The amount of information conveyed by all types of graphs, symbols, sizes, and colors is staggering. The ability to “drill down” in real-time with increasing levels of granularity enables all manner of analyses. The downside of this data hunger is the creation of simplified, context-free visualizations which may inadvertently lead to misinterpretations, most often in the form of a false positive (believing a change has occurred that really hasn’t). This often leads to knee-jerk reactions to correct the “change” and unnecessary actions being taken that waste time, effort, and money. Avoiding the most common pitfalls will ensure your organization has the most complete picture to drive meaningful change.
Healthcare Dashboards: 3 Keys for Creating Effective and Insightful Executive...Health Catalyst
As the use of data-driven Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) increases, healthcare organizations are adopting Executive Dashboards to track organizational performance. While dashboards deliver insight and identify areas for improvement, they fail to make the data actionable and the value is often offset by the unproductive fire drills and churn they create. There are three keys to create and deploy insightful and effective dashboards successfully:
1. Aggregation of underlying dashboards to create the executive dashboard
2. Establishment of clear ownership and accountability
3. Sustainable process
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From ASO to analytics, this SlideShare features best practices by some of the industry’s most-trusted names, including Amplitude, Appcues, AppTweak, and Leanplum.
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.
Five Strategies for Easing the Burden of Clinical Quality MeasuresHealth Catalyst
Healthcare systems need to view regulatory measures in a different light. Rather than approaching them as required processes that burden the system, they should be viewed as quality improvement opportunities that lead to best practices. It helps to have a strategy to get there:
Prioritize measures that truly impact patient care
Have a line-of-sight to reimbursement
Understand measure alignment across programs
Involve the right people
Get involved in measure development upstream
The right tools also help, but a plan for success is advised for healthcare system administrators and clinicians who need to ease the reporting burden and take advantage of every measure in a positive way.
As access to healthcare data grows, healthcare leaders are using more data to make decisions. Executives and front-line clinicians need a decision-support tool that meets the demands of today’s increasingly data-rich environment. Healthcare dashboards once filled this niche, but no longer keep up with ever-growing data demands. Fortunately, an innovative visual reporting system, Leading Wisely™, picks up where dashboards fall short—enabling faster reporting and customized, self-service capability for comprehensive data-driven support. Leading Wisely’s key next-level features include:
Customization, allowing the individual user to personally tailor measures.
Proactive alerts, prompted by personalized notification settings.
User friendly layout, with easy-to-read highlights that indicate if a measure if moving off course.
Improve Patient Satisfaction: Five Things Healthcare Organizations Can Learn ...Health Catalyst
Patient satisfaction metrics are being put in the spotlight and are becoming more important as healthcare organizations transition from fee-for-service reimbursements to alternative payment models. While healthcare and the entertainment industry may seem disparate on the surface, there is much organizations can learn about improving the patient experience from companies like Disney who utilize data to understand their customers’ wants and needs in order to provide a superior guest experience. Disney creates the idea guest experience in 5 ways: 1. Understanding the guest; 2. Everyone is a performer; 3. Seeking out interactions; 4. Owning the guest; and 5. Accountability
Data Driven Healthcare That Work: A Physician Group PerspectiveHealth Catalyst
Crystal Run Healthcare shares their story about using proven strategies to care for patients in an accountable care model by using data to drive those strategies. Gregory A. Spencer, MD, FACP, CMO, and CMIO at Crystal Run Healthcare discusses why they moved towards analytics and data warehousing as well as the 6 requirements their health system had as they searched for a partner: 1) The solution needed to hit the ground running. 2) The solution needed to provide quick, actionable data. 3) There needed to be a library of analytical applications. 4) The healthcare data model needed to be able to evolve. 5) They needed to be taught how to fish for the data. 6) A long-term relationship with the vendor was important
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.
Healthcare Interoperability: New Tactics and TechnologyHealth Catalyst
Every provider agrees on the need for healthcare interoperability to achieve clinical data insights at the point of care. The question is how to get there from the myriad technologies and the volumes of data that comprise electronic medical records. It’s been difficult to organize among participants that have had little incentive to cooperate. And standards for sending and receiving data have been slow to develop. This is changing, but the key components that are still vital to realizing insights are closed-loop analytics and its accompanying tools, an enterprise data warehouse and analytics applications. This article defines the problems and explores the solutions to optimizing clinical decision making where it’s needed most.
Why You Need to Understand Value-Based Reimbursement and How to Survive ItHealth Catalyst
There are clear signs the healthcare industry is in the midst of a shift to value-based reimbursement. The most noticeable signs are the recent and proposed 2015 rulings from CMS. There are four areas in value-based reimbursement that will be impacted by the end of 2015: the physician payment structure, bundled payments, Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems regulations, and commercial payers. To survive the shift to value-based reimbursement, it’s important for providers and payers to take three steps: provide access to rich data, share knowledge and learn from each other, develop strategies by doing assessments.
Genomic Medicine: Personalized Care for Just PenniesHealth Catalyst
In April 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and scientists gained the ability to read the entire genetic blueprint for human beings. Since that time, the cost of gene sequencing has fallen from $100 million to $1,000. By 2020, the cost is expected to be mere pennies. Using the power of genomes scientists have found genomic defects for more than 5,000 inherited diseases and are on track to uncover 4,000 more. The implications for treatment of disease are also vast. In the future, clinicians will be able to use genomic-powered personalized medicine to treat patients on an individual basis knowing exactly how their genes will react to treatments and what the best course of action will be.
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Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Keys to SuccessHealth Catalyst
Avoidable readmissions are a major financial major problem for the healthcare industry, especially for government payers. To tackle this problem, CMS launched the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). While some hospitals may be able to absorb the financial penalties under HRRP, they still need to track increasingly complex reporting metrics. Most tracking solutions are inadequate for today’s complicated reporting needs. A healthcare enterprise data warehouse and analytics applications, however, are designed to solve the numerous reporting burdens. When used together, they also deliver a robust solution that enables hospitals to track and drive real cost and quality improvement initiatives, all without the need for users to be technical experts.
6 Steps for Implementing Successful Performance Improvement Initiatives in He...Health Catalyst
A systematic approach to performance improvement initiative includes three components: analytics, content, and deployment. Taking six steps will help an organization to effectively cover all three components of success. Step 1: Integrate performance improvement into your strategic objectives. Step 2: Use analytics to unlock data and identity areas of opportunity. Step 3: Prioritize programs using a combination of analytics and a deployment system. Step 4: Define the performance improvement program’s permanent teams. Step 5: Use a content system to define program outcomes and define interventions. Step 6: Estimate the ROI.
The Key to Transitioning from Fee-for-Service to Value-Based ReimbursementsHealth Catalyst
The shift from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements has good and bad consequences for healthcare. While the shift will ultimately help health systems provide higher quality lower cost care, the transition may be financially disastrous for some. In addition, the shifting revenue mix from commercial payers to Medicare and Medicaid is creating its own set of challenges. There are, however, three keys to surviving the transition: 1) Effectively manage shared savings programs to maximize reimbursement. 2) Improve operating costs. 3) Increase patient volumes. With an analytics foundation, health systems will be able to meet and survive today’s healthcare challenges.
5 Reasons Why Healthcare Data is Unique and Difficult to MeasureHealth Catalyst
Healthcare data is not linear. It is a complex, diverse beast unlike the data of any other industry. There are five ways in particular that make healthcare data unique:
1. Much of the data is in multiple places.
2. The data is structured and unstructured.
3. It has inconsistent and variable definitions; evidence-based practice and new research is coming out every day. 4. The data is complex.
5. Changing regulatory requirements.
The answer for this unpredictability and complexity is the agility of a late-binding Data Warehouse.
Will New Healthcare Policy Impact Value-Based Healthcare?Health Catalyst
The final days of 2016 were fraught with uncertainty about what Congress and the new Trump Administration would do to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the healthcare regulatory landscape overall. So far, in 2017, we do not have much more clarity. Repeal, repeal and replace, repeal and delay, modify without repeal—there are now even more questions than answers and still no consensus Republican plan in sight. Yet healthcare executives would certainly appreciate some modicum of clarity, at least on the narrower topic of whether the shift to value-based healthcare models will continue under whatever new system is coming. This webinar attempts to add clarity by analyzing what we know so far, as reflected in the limited actual evidence that is available.
Join Dan Orenstein, General Counsel, Health Catalyst, as he analyzes these three key pieces of information:
The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures)
The Executive Order on reducing the “burden” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Tom Price’s comments at his confirmation hearings
Top 7 Healthcare Trends and Challenges for 2015 - From Our Financial ExpertHealth Catalyst
As the healthcare industry moves closer to value-based care, there are a lot of projections about the changes that will occur in 2015. This article discusses seven of the top trends the industry is focused on: (1) physicians start to feel the financial impact of CMS’s rules; (2) the use of technology in healthcare is exploding; (3) financial viability is a key concern for CEOs; (4) reducing exposure to risk performance is becoming more important; (5) interest in population health management continues to grow; (6) outcomes improvements will continue to increase; and (7) collaboration between providers and payers will increase.
The Top Three Healthcare Financial Trends in 2017: Payment Transitions, Disru...Health Catalyst
Influential healthcare financial trends in 2017 emerged in three areas:
Transitions in payment.
Disruption from familiar players and newcomers.
Emerging data skillsets.
Uncertainty has been a common theme for 2017. Organizations continue waiting for clarity on the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), while working to implement value-based care. Changes from established healthcare organizations as well as the arrival of prominent newcomers (e.g., Amazon) add to the unsettled outlook, as do emerging data skillsets. Amid the uncertainty, however, healthcare is clearly continuing on the path to patient-centered care. Organizations best positioned for 2018 will understand their performance in 2017’s top three healthcare financial trends as they evaluate their preparedness for the coming year.
2015 and Beyond: 6 Predictions for Healthcare and Population HealthHealth Catalyst
Healthcare will undergo a number of changes in 2015, particularly as organizations look to manage population health. Dr. David A. Burton outlines what he believes will happen in terms of at-risk contracting, risk evaluation, network optimization, quality and safety, cost reduction, and infrastructure, and how 2015 can develop into opportunity for all.
Four Population Health Management Strategies that Help Organizations Improve ...Health Catalyst
Population health management (PHM) strategies help organizations achieve sustainable outcomes improvement by guiding transformation across the continuum of care, versus focusing improvement resources on limited populations and acute care. Because population health comprises the complete picture of individual and population health (health behaviors, clinical care social and economic factors, and the physical environment), health systems can use PHM strategies to ensure that improvement initiatives comprehensively impact healthcare delivery.
Organizations can leverage four PHM strategies to achieve sustainable improvement:
Data transformation
Analytic transformation
Payment transformation
Care transformation
Consumer-Centric Healthcare: 2015--The Tipping Point Has Arrived (Report by William Blair)
Consumers—in tandem with disruptive healthcare technology and healthcare services providers—are the key to solving many of US healthcare's woes, particularly the unsustainably high cost of care.
Public exchanges, private exchanges, and high-deductible health plans are growing quickly. Disruptive forces of competition will create a lower-cost system that promotes the growth of highly efficient, low-cost, and high-quality providers and technologies.
The continued movement of financial and quality risk back to providers (and increasingly to consumers themselves) is encouraging providers and consumers to seek preventive medicine, cost efficiency, clinical efficacy, and overall value in healthcare. In turn, this could drive significant change regarding the primary point of care delivery (rapidly moving outside the hospital), the overall cost of healthcare and investment decisions made by healthcare providers.
Consumer-centric healthcare providers will experience strong top- and bottom-line growth over the coming years. Investors in both the public and private-equity markets will achieve superior long-term returns by identifying and investing in these companies.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and clinically integrated networks (CINs) are two types of organizations working to address the problem of rising costs. As ACOs and CINs continue to evolve, organizations moving into value-based care (VBC) face an ever-changing landscape. This article looks at the evolution of the ACO and CIN models, what new tools ACOs employ today to promote success, and lessons learned from organizations that have succeeded in alternative payment models. It also explores what healthcare experts believe the future of alternative payment models will look like and competencies to develop to meet those changing demands.
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The White House Issue: Health reforms
The Health Care Reforms are the best obsession for the United States, Majorly most of the American citizens who were responsible for originating the improvement found it helpful. Back in the year 2011, a countrywide crackdown was conducted as a way to oppose the frauds that were becoming a health concern, and the federal administration recovered almost $ 4.1 billion. The Health Care Improvement for capturing the healthcare frauds and scams allowed President Obama’s policy to enhance on strict penalties like compensation and fines. By providing the United States citizens with Patient Protection as well as, ACA (Affordable Care Act) was the ultimate presidential success for President Barack Obama (.whitehouse., 2014).
The public policy
As most of the leaders decided to adopt a firm stand with the many important issues within the American State, the essential point was the definition of the improvement of the Health Care in the United States by President Barack Obama and when discussing the fitness and care reform a lot of issues are put on focus.
The public policies are categorized into four groups which are the regulatory policy, the distributive policy, the redistributive policy and lastly the constituent policy. Every issue in the White House is organized it the way it is related to any of the four types of public systems (NCBI, 2016). The financial regime faces most of the significant issues, and many may need to be in a position to determine the problems which are related to funding system because some of these issues affect some of the American citizens.
Distributive policy as mentioned above, it is a policy that focuses on supporting the selected issues; the strategy that is behind the distributive health care is the local understanding and having a flexible organizational design. The idea of distribution is quite broad as it classifies distributive policy action towards including all the public processes that are responsible for developing as well as providing equitable access to the resources. In regards to the health issues, this may have financial aid for assisting the excluded to have access to the healthcare. Also, across funding aid to assist in the inside operations of the health institutions such as the combination of threats which enhances the inclusion of reasonably inadequate health services. Also, the appointment systems facilitate the secondary concern for the needy to access health services (Mackintosh, 2013). It also reduces the shifts regarding the fitness care regime in processes that will be able to satisfy and offer the proper access to those who are deprived by supporting the distributive promises that the government has made and having full access to healthcare services. In this kind of shift, the significant disadvantage is ...
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Study Guide: Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform: Overview
When it comes to healthcare in America, we seem to believe that more is better--but does more healthcare result in better health? As a nation, we spend more on healthcare per person than any European country, yet our health outcomes are worse. The PBS documentary, Money and Medicine was aired in 2012, and addresses one of the key issues of healthcare reform--the cost of health care. Watch the trailer below, or the entire episode here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2283573727/
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The Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, is a collection of laws that were created to reform health insurance and healthcare.
The ACA significantly impacts nurses both personally and professionally. Bedside nurses are impacted by organizational changes that affect patient care, and may be providing information and resources to patients and caregivers about the ACA. However, as Hynds, Hatch and Samuels (2014) noted, nurses indicate they need more knowledge to understand the ACA policy implications of their practice.
Now, you can either read the 974 pages of the law itself, or you can watch this short, animated video produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation, and visit the helpful online resources below:
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Affordable Care Act: Five Years Later
The Commonwealth Fund has developed several online, interactive resources to illustrate the impact of the Affordable Care Act in its first five years of implementation. Through personal stories, population and health systems data analysis, and graphics, the Commonwealth fund paints the picture of the impact of the ACA on individuals, businesses, providers and healthcare systems. Take some time to explore these resources in preparation for this week's discussion board. Link: The Affordable Care Act: A Look Back at the First Five Years.
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Value-Based Purchasing--"Pay for Performance"
Increasingly, hospitals and healthcare providers are reimbursed not just for the amount of services provided (fee-for service), but for the results that are achieved for a particular patient population. As nurses, you may have observed policy changes that emphasize patient experience, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and effective discharge planning ...
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.
From Volume to Value: 10 Essential Strategies for Navigating the Healthcare S...Health Catalyst
As the transition of healthcare payment models from volume to value takes longer than expected, healthcare organizations must balance fee for service (FFS) with value-based care (VBC). The transition to VBC will accelerate, but as FFS persists and still generates adequate margins, organizations must also continue to be successful under volume-based reimbursement.
Ten tools can help health systems balance VBC with FFS:
A member perspective.
Cautious investment in hard delivery assets.
Accelerated investment in digital infrastructure.
Innovative digital engagement solutions.
Pricing concessions.
Aligned incentives.
Network management.
Payer-provider trust and collaboration.
Clinician and administrative alignment.
Physician leadership and accountability.
Improve Patient Engagement with Five Public Health-Inspired PrinciplesHealth Catalyst
Patient engagement is critical as we move toward population health—as patients who engage in their own care by following medical recommendations and making healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices will have better outcomes and experiences.
There isn’t, however, a clear path to successful patient engagement. Fortunately, public health can lend several established principles that may help us better involve patients in their own care:
Using systematic, population-level solutions that require less individual effort.
Engaging patients on interpersonal and community levels as well as personal.
Identifying root-cause, assessing and capitalizing on strengths, and engaging stakeholders.
Using strategies from behavioral economics to help individuals make good choices.
Anticipating failure and learning from it.
Succeeding in Population Health Management: Why the Right Tools MatterHealth Catalyst
The U.S. healthcare market projects that by 2022 90 million Americans will be in an ACO. The upward trend in population health management (PHM) makes the move towards risk-based contracts increasingly urgent for health systems. The industry has been largely unprepared for the shift, as it hasn’t established a clear definition of population health or solid guidelines on transitioning from volume to value. Organizations can, however, prepare for the demands of PHM by adopting a solution that manages comprehensive population health data, provides advanced analytics from new and complex challenges, and connects them with the deep expertise to thrive in a value-based landscape.
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.
Healthcare’s Next Revolution: Finding Success in the Medicare Shared Savings ...Health Catalyst
A series of revolutions has driven the development of the U.S. healthcare system, enabling dramatic improvements in all aspects of healthcare quality and outcomes over the past century. Although healthcare organizations have focused on moving towards value-based care for decades, the data shows that the shift is indeed taking place and fee-for-service models are declining.
New changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) will help drive this change as revisions to MSSP require ACOs to take on more financial risk earlier. This article covers the following topics:
Important moments in history that led to today’s current challenges.
Why financial imperatives drive cultural change in our economic model.
Ways MSSP can help healthcare organizations achieve financial success.
How to utilize data to develop better healthcare delivery systems.
Insights from 2017 Industry Leaders: Patient Assistance and Access ProgramsMelissa Paige
To be recognized this year as an Industry Leader with many other great well known individuals is such an honor. Thank you #CBI!
-Tracy Foster-President Lash Group
-Art Wood-Senior VP, Patient Services, Inc
-Bill Goodson-Director, Market Access and Reimbursement Services, Eisai,Inc.
-Frank Barrett-Executive Director, Patient Support Services, Churchill Pharmaceuticals LLC
-Nicole Hebbert-VP, Patient Access & Engagement, UBC
-Tom Doyle-Executive VP, Commercial Services, Triplefin
-Catherine Blansfield-VP, Access and Outcomes Services, NORD
-Kristina Broadbelt-Director, Global Patient Advocacy, Horizon Pharma
Achieving Stakeholder Engagement: A Population Health Management ImperativeHealth Catalyst
To succeed in population health management (PHM), organizations must overcome barriers including information silos and limited resources. Due to the systemwide nature of these challenges, widespread stakeholder engagement is an imperative in population-based improvement.
An effective PHM stakeholder engagement strategy incorporates the following:
Includes as many stakeholders as possible at the beginning of the journey.
Meets the unique analytics and reporting needs of the organization.
Enables users to measure, and therefore manage, PHM outcomes.
Provides the real-time analytics value-based care requires.
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.
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)
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.
Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
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Leading the Way in Nephrology: Dr. David Greene's Work with Stem Cells for Ki...Dr. David Greene Arizona
As we watch Dr. Greene's continued efforts and research in Arizona, it's clear that stem cell therapy holds a promising key to unlocking new doors in the treatment of kidney disease. With each study and trial, we step closer to a world where kidney disease is no longer a life sentence but a treatable condition, thanks to pioneers like Dr. David Greene.
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Global launch of the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index 2nd wave – alongside...ILC- UK
The Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index is an online tool created by ILC that ranks countries on six metrics including, life span, health span, work span, income, environmental performance, and happiness. The Index helps us understand how well countries have adapted to longevity and inform decision makers on what must be done to maximise the economic benefits that comes with living well for longer.
Alongside the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 28 May 2024, we launched the second version of our Index, allowing us to track progress and give new insights into what needs to be done to keep populations healthier for longer.
The speakers included:
Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
Dr Marta Lomazzi, Executive Manager, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Dr Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
Dr Karin Tegmark Wisell, Director General, Public Health Agency of Sweden