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Healthcare Analytics – A Proven Return on Investment: So What’s Taking So Long?
So what do you get when you keep all your billing data in one place, your OR management data in another, materials management in another, outcomes and quality in another, and time and labor in yet...
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So You’ve Signed an Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), Now What?
There have been headlines recently announcing the partnerships BCBSMA has struck with MA-based providers called Alternative Quality Contracts that seek to flip the traditional fee-for-service model on...
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Strategic Finance for Service Lines: Finding Opportunities for Growth
Healthcare providers are always seeking innovations and evaluating strategic alternatives to meet growing demand while healthcare legislation is adding challenges to an already complex industry. As the...
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The Never-Ending Burden of Reporting Patient Safety & Quality Metrics
Quick: how long does it take you to collect, aggregate, and report your SCIP, PN, AMI, and HF Core Measures? How about infection control metrics like rates of CLABSI, VAP, UTI, and MRSA? Or for that...
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The Struggle to Define Quality Measures: Try Finding the “True Source” of...
Let’s look at one measure that is extremely important to hospitals right now: How do you calculate Patient Re-Admission rates? Do you break it down by certain characteristics of a Re-Admission like...
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Healthcare’s New Mantra
Reduce Costs; Improve Outcomes & Quality; Increase Revenue & Growth Everything we do for our healthcare clients’ improves these fundamental core principles – Everything! I mean it, seriously,...
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The Unknown Cost of “High Quality Outcomes” in Healthcare
“You were recently acknowledged for having high quality outcomes compared to your peers, how much is it costing you to report this information?” I recently read an article on healthcareitnews.com,...
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What I Learned Last Week in Cambridge, MA at the World Congress Health Care...
The subtitle for last week’s conference was “Moving from Volume to VALUE Based Care”. The theme’s that emerged from the speaker panels, presentations, and one-off conversations I had seemed well...
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What I learned at HFMA’s Revenue Cycle Conference at Gillette Stadium
(…while the Patriots prepared to get their butts kicked) Right from Jonathan Bush, the co- founder and CEO of athenahealth [the keynote speaker]: “Make Hospitals Focus on What They’re Good At –...
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The Politics of Data in an ACO
Imagine the following scenario. You discover that you are the victim of identity theft, purchases have been made in your name, and your personal credit has been ruined. You are saved, though. You have...
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Ranzal Healthcare Analytics (RHA) Productivity Management Overview
In this brief demo, you’ll see how to leverage your interactive dashboard to drill down by department, by pay period, by job code, by employee, by any productivity metric you gather, to support and...
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