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.
Leveraging Technology to Increase Patient Satisfaction and Employee EngagementHealth Catalyst
Health systems are challenged by the need to keep patients and employees satisfied and engaged. This can be especially difficult for organizations in flux, growing, merging, and changing. And as leaders of these organizations know, poor patient satisfaction ratings lead to reduced reimbursements, which affect the bottom line.
To meet this challenge and improve patient satisfaction, health system leaders are taking advantage of technology, such as rounding software, that supports effective communication and drives the type of culture change that boosts both caregiver and patient satisfaction and encourages engagement. Embedding rounding technology into current processes makes rounding better and easier. The correlation between effective, efficient rounding and high patient satisfaction scores is clear. Rounding can and does increase engagement and satisfaction, which in turn leads to higher reimbursement potential. Learn how health system leaders can move from talking about rounding technology to incorporating it into daily workflow.
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.
Healthcare Project Management Techniques - A Pragmatic Approach to Outcomes I...Health Catalyst
Project management skills and good project managers are increasingly important to the healthcare industry because they can help control costs, manage risk, and speed improvement project outcomes. By applying project management techniques, from waterfall to agile methodologies, organizations can plan, organize, and execute a set of tasks efficiently in order to maximize resources and achieve specific goals.
This article explores project management techniques and offers considerations for healthcare leaders when adapting these techniques for clinical, financial, and operational process improvement. The author also shares a pragmatic application and practical tips for implementing these project management techniques in a healthcare environment.
Hiring Top Healthcare Analytics Talent: Five Best PracticesHealth Catalyst
COVID-19 has escalated healthcare’s decision-making demands, reinforcing the industry’s need for highly skilled analytics team members. As a result, health systems face mounting pressure to hire the best-suited analytics talent in a timely manner and with minimal burden on existing team members.
Five proven inclusive strategies will help hiring managers efficiently build an analytics team that can adapt to healthcare’s shifting environment and also fit within an organization’s culture:
Open positions to remote employees and conduct interviews via video conferencing.
Insert “tollgates” into the hiring process.
Use scenario-based role play to assess many competencies concurrently.
Assess cultural fit.
Follow up with and provide feedback to all candidates.
Is Value-Based Healthcare Here to Stay? Looking for Answers in New PoliciesHealth Catalyst
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.
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.
Leading Adaptive Change: A Framework to Transform HealthcareHealth Catalyst
“I assumed if I was bold enough and pushed hard enough, others would follow,” related Dr. Val Ulstad as she recounts past efforts to drive healthcare improvements. “But, the pushing only strengthened the resistance.”
It turns out that leading change in health care is especially challenging for reasons Dr. Ulstad will discuss including conflict and resistance, culture clashes, denial, blame, and in-fighting. As a physician leader, Dr. Ulstad discovered that physician push back wasn’t a sign of disdain or rebellion, but rather a characteristic of modern medicine and often a call for help. Clinicians fear changes that might put at risk what they believe to be best practice medicine. Those worries often lead to a lack of participation in quality improvement initiatives because they don’t know how to engage in a meaningful way.
While some may perceive those non-participating members as lazy or unwilling, those behaviors may in fact be evidence of chaos, stress, burdened work loads and rapid, repeated, and high-volume change. When understood and embraced, these negative qualities can be leveraged into positive outcomes.
Join Dr. Val Ulstad, MD, MPA, MPH, FACC as she introduces the concepts, frameworks, and practices of adaptive leadership wherein she will share principles that will help healthcare professionals to work through complex health care initiatives where there is uncertainty, perceived scarcity of time and attention, and fast-paced change. These frameworks reveal what people exercising leadership can do once they have a deeper understanding of fear and the resistance to change. By applying this way of looking at human behavior, Dr. Ulstad shares with healthcare professionals how to be more effective and purposeful in their leadership work. Participants will learn how to:
Recognize the difference between technical and adaptive work.
Thoughtfully analyze stakeholder behavior in order to plan and make progress.
Effectively address resistance in others.
Participants will begin to see more clearly and act more intentionally to address the adaptive problems in healthcare.
Leveraging Technology to Increase Patient Satisfaction and Employee EngagementHealth Catalyst
Health systems are challenged by the need to keep patients and employees satisfied and engaged. This can be especially difficult for organizations in flux, growing, merging, and changing. And as leaders of these organizations know, poor patient satisfaction ratings lead to reduced reimbursements, which affect the bottom line.
To meet this challenge and improve patient satisfaction, health system leaders are taking advantage of technology, such as rounding software, that supports effective communication and drives the type of culture change that boosts both caregiver and patient satisfaction and encourages engagement. Embedding rounding technology into current processes makes rounding better and easier. The correlation between effective, efficient rounding and high patient satisfaction scores is clear. Rounding can and does increase engagement and satisfaction, which in turn leads to higher reimbursement potential. Learn how health system leaders can move from talking about rounding technology to incorporating it into daily workflow.
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.
Healthcare Project Management Techniques - A Pragmatic Approach to Outcomes I...Health Catalyst
Project management skills and good project managers are increasingly important to the healthcare industry because they can help control costs, manage risk, and speed improvement project outcomes. By applying project management techniques, from waterfall to agile methodologies, organizations can plan, organize, and execute a set of tasks efficiently in order to maximize resources and achieve specific goals.
This article explores project management techniques and offers considerations for healthcare leaders when adapting these techniques for clinical, financial, and operational process improvement. The author also shares a pragmatic application and practical tips for implementing these project management techniques in a healthcare environment.
Hiring Top Healthcare Analytics Talent: Five Best PracticesHealth Catalyst
COVID-19 has escalated healthcare’s decision-making demands, reinforcing the industry’s need for highly skilled analytics team members. As a result, health systems face mounting pressure to hire the best-suited analytics talent in a timely manner and with minimal burden on existing team members.
Five proven inclusive strategies will help hiring managers efficiently build an analytics team that can adapt to healthcare’s shifting environment and also fit within an organization’s culture:
Open positions to remote employees and conduct interviews via video conferencing.
Insert “tollgates” into the hiring process.
Use scenario-based role play to assess many competencies concurrently.
Assess cultural fit.
Follow up with and provide feedback to all candidates.
Is Value-Based Healthcare Here to Stay? Looking for Answers in New PoliciesHealth Catalyst
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.
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.
Leading Adaptive Change: A Framework to Transform HealthcareHealth Catalyst
“I assumed if I was bold enough and pushed hard enough, others would follow,” related Dr. Val Ulstad as she recounts past efforts to drive healthcare improvements. “But, the pushing only strengthened the resistance.”
It turns out that leading change in health care is especially challenging for reasons Dr. Ulstad will discuss including conflict and resistance, culture clashes, denial, blame, and in-fighting. As a physician leader, Dr. Ulstad discovered that physician push back wasn’t a sign of disdain or rebellion, but rather a characteristic of modern medicine and often a call for help. Clinicians fear changes that might put at risk what they believe to be best practice medicine. Those worries often lead to a lack of participation in quality improvement initiatives because they don’t know how to engage in a meaningful way.
While some may perceive those non-participating members as lazy or unwilling, those behaviors may in fact be evidence of chaos, stress, burdened work loads and rapid, repeated, and high-volume change. When understood and embraced, these negative qualities can be leveraged into positive outcomes.
Join Dr. Val Ulstad, MD, MPA, MPH, FACC as she introduces the concepts, frameworks, and practices of adaptive leadership wherein she will share principles that will help healthcare professionals to work through complex health care initiatives where there is uncertainty, perceived scarcity of time and attention, and fast-paced change. These frameworks reveal what people exercising leadership can do once they have a deeper understanding of fear and the resistance to change. By applying this way of looking at human behavior, Dr. Ulstad shares with healthcare professionals how to be more effective and purposeful in their leadership work. Participants will learn how to:
Recognize the difference between technical and adaptive work.
Thoughtfully analyze stakeholder behavior in order to plan and make progress.
Effectively address resistance in others.
Participants will begin to see more clearly and act more intentionally to address the adaptive problems in healthcare.
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
6 Essential Data Analyst Skills for Your Healthcare OrganizationHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations are turning to the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) as the foundation of their analytics strategy. But simply implementing an EDW doesn’t guarantee an organization’s success. One obstacle organizations come up against is that their analytics team members don’t have the right skills to maximize the effectiveness of the EDW. The following six skills are essential for analytics team members: structured query language (SQL); the ability to perform export, transform, and load (ETL) processes; data modeling; data analysis; business intelligence (BI) reporting; and the ability to tell a story with data.
The Top 8 Skills Every Healthcare Process Improvement Leader Must HaveHealth Catalyst
Healthcare process improvement leaders not only have to be a jack-of-all-trades, but they need to be a master, as well. This is one of the most important leadership roles in the healthcare system with responsibilities that can ultimately end up saving lives, improving the patient experience, improving caregiver job satisfaction, and reducing costs. Although there are many others, these eight skills are the most critical for the efficient, and ultimately, successful process improvement leader:
Communication
Trust Building
Coaching
Understanding Process Management
Understanding Care Management Personnel
Constructive Accountability and Constructive Conflict
Resiliency and Persistency
Seeing the Big Picture
Along with the right training, education, and sponsorship, it’s easy to see why this role blends many elements of art and science.
Activity-Based Costing in Healthcare During COVID-19: Meeting Four Critical N...Health Catalyst
As health systems increasingly transition to a value-based care model, the financial strains and uncertainty of COVID-19 have placed more urgency on cost management. More than ever, organizations need a costing solution that helps them understand the true value of their services. With the right next-generation activity-based costing (ABC) tool, health systems can access the detailed data they need to lower the cost of care, automate costing activities, and reduce administrative costs while preparing for the mounting intricacy of the post-pandemic setting.
Activity-based costing meets healthcare’s complex COVID-19-era costing needs by addressing four big challenges:
Data management.
Scalability.
Ongoing maintenance.
Adoption.
Population Health Success: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
As the healthcare industry continues to focus on value, rather than volume, health systems are faced with delivering quality care to large populations with limited resources. To implement population health initiatives and deliver results, it is critical that care teams build population health strategies on actionable, up-to-date data. Health systems can better leverage data within population health and drive long-lasting change by implementing three small changes:
Increase team members’ access to data.
Support widespread data utilization.
Implement one source of data truth.
Access to accurate, reliable data boosts population health efforts while maintaining cost and improving outcomes. With actionable analytics providing insight and guiding decisions, population health teams can drive real change within their patient populations.
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.
Three Keys to Improving Hospital Patient Flow with Machine LearningHealth Catalyst
Health systems alike struggle to effectively manage hospital patient flow. With machine learning and predictive models, health systems can improve patient flow for different departments throughout the system like the emergency department. Health systems should focus on three key areas to foster successful data science that will lead to improved hospital patient flow:
Key 1. Build a data science team.
Key 2. Create a ML pipeline to aggregate all data sources.
Key 3. Form a comprehensive leadership team to govern data.
Improving hospital patient flow through predictive models results in reduced patient wait times, reduced staff overtime, improved patient outcomes, and improved patient and clinician satisfaction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
With an unpredictable future due to COVID-19, health systems must leverage data to drive decision making at every organizational level. Data visualization dashboards allow health systems to optimize their data and create a data-driven culture by displaying large, real-time data sets in an easy-to-understand dashboard.
Health systems that rely on dashboard reporting maximize their data in three important ways:
Time to value. Decision makers do not have time to wait for manually-created reports; dashboards quickly convey information so leaders can make swift decisions.
Data democratization. Leveraging a central source of truth, dashboards allow leaders at every level to access the most updated, accurate data.
Digestible data. Analysts can configure dashboards to highlight important figures and trends, so high-level leaders can understand complex data without diving into spreadsheets.
A Framework for High-Reliability Organizations in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Drs. Allen Frankel and Michael Leonard have developed a framework for creating high-reliability organizations in healthcare. This report, based on their 2018 webinar, covers the components and factors of this frame work, including:
Leadership
Transparency
Reliability
Improvement and Measurement
Continuous Learning
Negotiation
Teamwork and Communication
Accountability
Psychological Safety
How to Assess the ROI of Your Population Health InitiativeHealth Catalyst
In the brave new world of value-based healthcare, investing in population health management (PHM) is a requirement for success. Defining PHM isn’t easy, but there is one common term that appears among all the diverse interpretations—outcomes. Assessing the potential ROI for investments in PHM using a clear, understandable framework, can help organizations methodically identify and prioritize their PHM investments. While not every PHM intervention makes sense for every situation, it is important to determine which programs provide the most benefit, as well as determining when the investment will begin paying dividends, to achieve success in the era of PHM.
Putting Patients Back at the Center of Healthcare: How CMS Measures Prioritiz...Health Catalyst
Today’s healthcare encounters are too often marked by more clinician screen time than patient-clinician engagement. Increasing regulatory reporting burdens are diverting clinician attention from their true priority—the patient. To put patients back at the center of care, CMS introduced its Meaningful Measures framework in 2017. The initiative identifies the highest priorities for quality measurement and improvement, with the goal of aligning measures with CMS strategic goals, including the following:
Empowering patients and clinicians to make decisions about their healthcare.
Supporting innovative approaches to improve quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability.
How to Sustain Healthcare Quality Improvement in 3 Critical StepsHealth Catalyst
Many healthcare organizations don’t hold quality and cost gains because they don’t make improvement the backbone of their organization. Rather, they approach improvement as a series of initiatives. Ronald D. Snee, a fellow with the American Society for Quality states, “Many organizations focus on sustaining the gains only after improvement has been achieved. Intuitively, that may seem the correct sequence, but it is in fact backwards. The time to focus on sustaining improvement gains is well before the initiative is launched.”
Here are 3 critical organizational steps that can help sustain those gains.
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.
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.
Building Analytic Acumen with Less Classroom "Training" and More LearningHealth Catalyst
Many healthcare organizations understand the value of improved analytic acumen, but analytics and improvement literacy training can be arduous, time-consuming, and costly. Furthermore, learning science demonstrates that a one-size training approach is ineffective and fails to meet individual learners’ needs.
Sheila Luster-Avant, interim chief data and analytics officer, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin and Health Catalyst team members Tom Burton, co-founder, and Jill Terry, chief learning officer, share how health systems such as Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin are leveraging the latest learning science to significantly improve the analytics and improvement literacy of leaders, analysts, and improvement teams for less time and money.
What You’ll Learn
- Why Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin needed a new approach to improve their analytic acumen.
- How advances in neuroscience make learning more scalable in healthcare organizations.
- How providing direction and autonomy helps individuals succeed in learning and their roles.
- Best practices from Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s experience that you can apply at your organization.
Physician Burnout and the EHR: Addressing Five Common BurdensHealth Catalyst
So far, the EHR hasn’t delivered on its original intent to improve patient care with more efficiency and personalization and lower cost. Instead, physician users blame the systems for worsening their experience and the quality of their care in significant ways:
Less time for patient interaction and worsened quality of interaction.
An extended workday.
Poor design (difficult to use).
Demands of quality measures.
Cost and maintenance.
Despite these challenges, the EHR is likely here to stay. Health systems have invested heavily in their electronic reporting systems and are now focused on making these technologies and processes work for the benefit of patients and providers. CIOs are working towards better aligning digital health goals with physician experience for an environment where EHRs enable smarter, not harder, work.
Employee Engagement During COVID-19: Using Culture to Manage Stress, Maintain...Health Catalyst
As organizations confront a post-COVID-19 world, leaders must balance pandemic-driven practices and environments with team member eagerness to and uncertainty towards returning to business as usual. Even though ongoing fear and stress are inevitable, leaders and managers can use a positive workplace culture to support employees, engage their teams, and foster productivity. Safe, reliable access to health and wellness, remote mental health resources, and consistent communications will help organizations establish and maintain a positive culture that remains a steadfast source of support as the healthcare industry navigates the next phases of COVID-19.
SWETA MANGAL ZIQITZA – THE FUTURE REMOTE WORK AND EMPLOYEE WELLNESS NAVIGATIN...Sweta Mangal Ziqitza
Sweta Mangal is committed to establishing a work culture that honours not only the professional contributions of its remote workers, but also their mental and emotional wellbeing, by recognising the obstacles and capitalising on the opportunities of remote work.
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
6 Essential Data Analyst Skills for Your Healthcare OrganizationHealth Catalyst
Healthcare organizations are turning to the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) as the foundation of their analytics strategy. But simply implementing an EDW doesn’t guarantee an organization’s success. One obstacle organizations come up against is that their analytics team members don’t have the right skills to maximize the effectiveness of the EDW. The following six skills are essential for analytics team members: structured query language (SQL); the ability to perform export, transform, and load (ETL) processes; data modeling; data analysis; business intelligence (BI) reporting; and the ability to tell a story with data.
The Top 8 Skills Every Healthcare Process Improvement Leader Must HaveHealth Catalyst
Healthcare process improvement leaders not only have to be a jack-of-all-trades, but they need to be a master, as well. This is one of the most important leadership roles in the healthcare system with responsibilities that can ultimately end up saving lives, improving the patient experience, improving caregiver job satisfaction, and reducing costs. Although there are many others, these eight skills are the most critical for the efficient, and ultimately, successful process improvement leader:
Communication
Trust Building
Coaching
Understanding Process Management
Understanding Care Management Personnel
Constructive Accountability and Constructive Conflict
Resiliency and Persistency
Seeing the Big Picture
Along with the right training, education, and sponsorship, it’s easy to see why this role blends many elements of art and science.
Activity-Based Costing in Healthcare During COVID-19: Meeting Four Critical N...Health Catalyst
As health systems increasingly transition to a value-based care model, the financial strains and uncertainty of COVID-19 have placed more urgency on cost management. More than ever, organizations need a costing solution that helps them understand the true value of their services. With the right next-generation activity-based costing (ABC) tool, health systems can access the detailed data they need to lower the cost of care, automate costing activities, and reduce administrative costs while preparing for the mounting intricacy of the post-pandemic setting.
Activity-based costing meets healthcare’s complex COVID-19-era costing needs by addressing four big challenges:
Data management.
Scalability.
Ongoing maintenance.
Adoption.
Population Health Success: Three Ways to Leverage DataHealth Catalyst
As the healthcare industry continues to focus on value, rather than volume, health systems are faced with delivering quality care to large populations with limited resources. To implement population health initiatives and deliver results, it is critical that care teams build population health strategies on actionable, up-to-date data. Health systems can better leverage data within population health and drive long-lasting change by implementing three small changes:
Increase team members’ access to data.
Support widespread data utilization.
Implement one source of data truth.
Access to accurate, reliable data boosts population health efforts while maintaining cost and improving outcomes. With actionable analytics providing insight and guiding decisions, population health teams can drive real change within their patient populations.
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.
Three Keys to Improving Hospital Patient Flow with Machine LearningHealth Catalyst
Health systems alike struggle to effectively manage hospital patient flow. With machine learning and predictive models, health systems can improve patient flow for different departments throughout the system like the emergency department. Health systems should focus on three key areas to foster successful data science that will lead to improved hospital patient flow:
Key 1. Build a data science team.
Key 2. Create a ML pipeline to aggregate all data sources.
Key 3. Form a comprehensive leadership team to govern data.
Improving hospital patient flow through predictive models results in reduced patient wait times, reduced staff overtime, improved patient outcomes, and improved patient and clinician satisfaction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Data Visualization Dashboards: Three Ways to Maximize DataHealth Catalyst
With an unpredictable future due to COVID-19, health systems must leverage data to drive decision making at every organizational level. Data visualization dashboards allow health systems to optimize their data and create a data-driven culture by displaying large, real-time data sets in an easy-to-understand dashboard.
Health systems that rely on dashboard reporting maximize their data in three important ways:
Time to value. Decision makers do not have time to wait for manually-created reports; dashboards quickly convey information so leaders can make swift decisions.
Data democratization. Leveraging a central source of truth, dashboards allow leaders at every level to access the most updated, accurate data.
Digestible data. Analysts can configure dashboards to highlight important figures and trends, so high-level leaders can understand complex data without diving into spreadsheets.
A Framework for High-Reliability Organizations in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Drs. Allen Frankel and Michael Leonard have developed a framework for creating high-reliability organizations in healthcare. This report, based on their 2018 webinar, covers the components and factors of this frame work, including:
Leadership
Transparency
Reliability
Improvement and Measurement
Continuous Learning
Negotiation
Teamwork and Communication
Accountability
Psychological Safety
How to Assess the ROI of Your Population Health InitiativeHealth Catalyst
In the brave new world of value-based healthcare, investing in population health management (PHM) is a requirement for success. Defining PHM isn’t easy, but there is one common term that appears among all the diverse interpretations—outcomes. Assessing the potential ROI for investments in PHM using a clear, understandable framework, can help organizations methodically identify and prioritize their PHM investments. While not every PHM intervention makes sense for every situation, it is important to determine which programs provide the most benefit, as well as determining when the investment will begin paying dividends, to achieve success in the era of PHM.
Putting Patients Back at the Center of Healthcare: How CMS Measures Prioritiz...Health Catalyst
Today’s healthcare encounters are too often marked by more clinician screen time than patient-clinician engagement. Increasing regulatory reporting burdens are diverting clinician attention from their true priority—the patient. To put patients back at the center of care, CMS introduced its Meaningful Measures framework in 2017. The initiative identifies the highest priorities for quality measurement and improvement, with the goal of aligning measures with CMS strategic goals, including the following:
Empowering patients and clinicians to make decisions about their healthcare.
Supporting innovative approaches to improve quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability.
How to Sustain Healthcare Quality Improvement in 3 Critical StepsHealth Catalyst
Many healthcare organizations don’t hold quality and cost gains because they don’t make improvement the backbone of their organization. Rather, they approach improvement as a series of initiatives. Ronald D. Snee, a fellow with the American Society for Quality states, “Many organizations focus on sustaining the gains only after improvement has been achieved. Intuitively, that may seem the correct sequence, but it is in fact backwards. The time to focus on sustaining improvement gains is well before the initiative is launched.”
Here are 3 critical organizational steps that can help sustain those gains.
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.
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.
Building Analytic Acumen with Less Classroom "Training" and More LearningHealth Catalyst
Many healthcare organizations understand the value of improved analytic acumen, but analytics and improvement literacy training can be arduous, time-consuming, and costly. Furthermore, learning science demonstrates that a one-size training approach is ineffective and fails to meet individual learners’ needs.
Sheila Luster-Avant, interim chief data and analytics officer, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin and Health Catalyst team members Tom Burton, co-founder, and Jill Terry, chief learning officer, share how health systems such as Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin are leveraging the latest learning science to significantly improve the analytics and improvement literacy of leaders, analysts, and improvement teams for less time and money.
What You’ll Learn
- Why Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin needed a new approach to improve their analytic acumen.
- How advances in neuroscience make learning more scalable in healthcare organizations.
- How providing direction and autonomy helps individuals succeed in learning and their roles.
- Best practices from Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s experience that you can apply at your organization.
Physician Burnout and the EHR: Addressing Five Common BurdensHealth Catalyst
So far, the EHR hasn’t delivered on its original intent to improve patient care with more efficiency and personalization and lower cost. Instead, physician users blame the systems for worsening their experience and the quality of their care in significant ways:
Less time for patient interaction and worsened quality of interaction.
An extended workday.
Poor design (difficult to use).
Demands of quality measures.
Cost and maintenance.
Despite these challenges, the EHR is likely here to stay. Health systems have invested heavily in their electronic reporting systems and are now focused on making these technologies and processes work for the benefit of patients and providers. CIOs are working towards better aligning digital health goals with physician experience for an environment where EHRs enable smarter, not harder, work.
Employee Engagement During COVID-19: Using Culture to Manage Stress, Maintain...Health Catalyst
As organizations confront a post-COVID-19 world, leaders must balance pandemic-driven practices and environments with team member eagerness to and uncertainty towards returning to business as usual. Even though ongoing fear and stress are inevitable, leaders and managers can use a positive workplace culture to support employees, engage their teams, and foster productivity. Safe, reliable access to health and wellness, remote mental health resources, and consistent communications will help organizations establish and maintain a positive culture that remains a steadfast source of support as the healthcare industry navigates the next phases of COVID-19.
SWETA MANGAL ZIQITZA – THE FUTURE REMOTE WORK AND EMPLOYEE WELLNESS NAVIGATIN...Sweta Mangal Ziqitza
Sweta Mangal is committed to establishing a work culture that honours not only the professional contributions of its remote workers, but also their mental and emotional wellbeing, by recognising the obstacles and capitalising on the opportunities of remote work.
Transformation Powered by Workday can be achieved virtually. In this guide, learn important principles to make the virtual experience as effective as a physical meeting, including tips for engaging people and building trust.
Future of Organizational BehaviorContinuing Educati.docxhanneloremccaffery
Future of Organizational Behavior
Continuing Education
How DaVita provides support to its employees for continuing education.
What is the future of organizational behavior
Organizational Behavior Challenges
What does the Future hold for DaVita
Conclusion
Introduction
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of factors that affect how individuals and groups act in organizations manage their environment.
What is Organizational Behavior
Value of OB: Helps people attain the competencies needed to become effective employees, team leaders or managers.
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Secure your Future
Gain a Competitive Edge
Become More Marketable
Economic Stability
Advance your Career
The Importance of Continuing Education
Secure your future. People with higher levels of education tend to have better job security—and any credential you earn stays with you for life.
Gain a competitive edge. As more people continue their education, the competition for high paying, stable jobs will increase. Experience combined with education demonstrates to employers your motivation and drive to succeed
Become More Marketable
In addition to a salary boost, skills training could be a bargaining chip in the promotion process Hiring managers offer higher entry-level salaries and more promotion opportunities to those with higher skill levels. Employers may even help fund your classes if you intend to stay with the company
Economic conditions are one of the main reasons driving demand for continuing education, and many people enroll in continuing education programs during recessions. Likewise, during recessions, many workers seek to
improve skills to remain hired or find new job opportunities
Advance Your Career
Management and supervisory positions often require specialized skills. Developing the essential soft skills in communication, problem solving and critical thinking will help you move up the career ladder. Additionally, specialized positions could require specific skills training or the attainment of an industry accepted certification.
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Scholarship Programs
Tuition Reimbursement
DaVita Children's Foundation
Training Programs
DaVita Continued Education Programs
Redwood Scholars Award (Enhanced)
Up to $25,000 per school year for full-time teammates (up to $5,000 per school year for part-time teammates) working toward a nursing, associate, undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D. or within an approved career path or other job-related degrees; teammates will share in the cost of their education.
Awarded by the Award Selection Committee.
Tuition Reimbursement (Basic)
Up to $3,000 reimbursed to full-time and part-time teammates per calendar year upon successful completion of job-related courses.
The DaVita Children’s Foundation, funded by DaVita, is a scholarship program offered to teammates' children and grandchildren who are enrolled in college or 12th grade and preparing for college entry. It awards scholarships of $1,000 to $3,000 ...
Lean Principles in Healthcare: 2 Important Tools Organizations Must HaveHealth Catalyst
The transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is driving many healthcare systems to fine-tune processes and work waste out of the system. In the search for quality improvement tools there has been much buzz surrounding lean, touted for its ability to remove waste from processes. Many have tried lean and, failing to achieve any sustainable benefit, are learning that applying lean principles to healthcare can be quite difficult. The lean approach isn’t a magic potion. Sustainable change will never become real without a committed organization dedicated to making it a reality. Lean, or any quality improvement tool, works in healthcare only when it is part of a larger initiative driving real cultural change.
Attached is a piece of work I’ve compiled and synthesized from many articles written on how leaders/managers should be leading their teams through COVID-19.
Employers responsibility for employees mental health – by Charles LindenThe Linden Method
Let’s look at how employers can encourage good mental health practices within their daily operations to better support staff, and retain their best people even under challenging and stressful job circumstances.
Here are 5 ways to overcome #COVID post lockdown trauma in the workplace. As we emerge from lockdown, it’s imperative that we take the time to recognise and overcome post lockdown trauma.
APM webinar hosted by the Scotland Network on 14 May 2024.
Speakers: Chris Drysdale and Peter Huggett
An interactive session discussing how Project Managers can identify mental health symptoms, provide tools to help themselves and others, plus also increase the capabilities of the Project Management function. This webinar was held on 14 May 2024.
The covid-19 pandemic led to concerns about a worsening of mental health & wellbeing across the world and increased awareness in both society and the workplace. This webinar looks to advise the benefits of having a Mental Health First Aid function in the workplace whilst also providing tools and techniques that can be readily used and applied to yourself and colleagues. Additionally, there are wider benefits to Project Management which will be proposed and discussed.
This CoP Start-Up Kit provides a variety of resources useful to people who are interested in sponsoring or starting up a Community of Practice (CoP).
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Chapman Institute’s WellCert program is the premier, and most established, professional certification program in the U.S. for Worksite Wellness practitioners.
The ‘Innovation Audit’ has been developed to help organisations gain new insight into how they are positioned regarding Learning, Agility and Flexibility. These are some of the key components for Innovative organisations. The audit explores yours and others perspectives of the organisational cultural and Eco-cycle. It adds a unique all-round perspective of your organisation, exploring how it has performed in the past in prior change programmes. Many organisations believe they already learn from their past or desire to enhance this behaviour.
Some questions to hold,
How well do you respond to the dynamic demands of your market?
Do you and others;
have a dominant Performance or Learning Culture?
know the 'Strategic Direction' of the company
know where you are on the 'Organisational Eco- Cycle
know how your profile looks in terms of the 8 domains of the 'Change Matrix’
PURPOSE, LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, MOTIVATION, COMMUNICATION, MANAGEMENT, GROUP DYNAMIC, PERSONAL DYNAMIC.
If you want to try this (there REALLY is no charge), contact rod.willis@assentire.net
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.
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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How many patients does case series should have In comparison to case reports.pdfpubrica101
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Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
This conference will delve into the intricate intersections between mental health, legal frameworks, and the prison system in Bolivia. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges faced by mental health professionals working within the legislative and correctional landscapes. Topics of discussion will include the prevalence and impact of mental health issues among the incarcerated population, the effectiveness of existing mental health policies and legislation, and potential reforms to enhance the mental health support system within prisons.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V - ROLE OF PEADIATRIC NURSE.pdfSachin Sharma
Pediatric nurses play a vital role in the health and well-being of children. Their responsibilities are wide-ranging, and their objectives can be categorized into several key areas:
1. Direct Patient Care:
Objective: Provide comprehensive and compassionate care to infants, children, and adolescents in various healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.).
This includes tasks like:
Monitoring vital signs and physical condition.
Administering medications and treatments.
Performing procedures as directed by doctors.
Assisting with daily living activities (bathing, feeding).
Providing emotional support and pain management.
2. Health Promotion and Education:
Objective: Promote healthy behaviors and educate children, families, and communities about preventive healthcare.
This includes tasks like:
Administering vaccinations.
Providing education on nutrition, hygiene, and development.
Offering breastfeeding and childbirth support.
Counseling families on safety and injury prevention.
3. Collaboration and Advocacy:
Objective: Collaborate effectively with doctors, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care for children.
Objective: Advocate for the rights and best interests of their patients, especially when children cannot speak for themselves.
This includes tasks like:
Communicating effectively with healthcare teams.
Identifying and addressing potential risks to child welfare.
Educating families about their child's condition and treatment options.
4. Professional Development and Research:
Objective: Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in pediatric healthcare through continuing education and research.
Objective: Contribute to improving the quality of care for children by participating in research initiatives.
This includes tasks like:
Attending workshops and conferences on pediatric nursing.
Participating in clinical trials related to child health.
Implementing evidence-based practices into their daily routines.
By fulfilling these objectives, pediatric nurses play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal health and well-being of children throughout all stages of their development.