Flu Vaccine Helps Avoid More than 70,000 Hospitalizations
CDC estimates that if vaccination rates increased by just 5 percentage points across the entire population, another 6,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations could have been avoided.
Care Navigators Offer Cost-Effective Solution for Improving Value-Based Care
Targeted interventions by care navigators can make a big difference in population health and patient satisfaction without a big cost.
Working Smarter: Using Control Charts to Tackle the High Cost of Clinical Variation
Consistent, accurate, and timely clinical reporting has the power to prompt care teams to adhere to clinical protocols and be mindful of how they stack up against peers and national benchmarks.
Helping Emergency Department Clinicians Understand the Costs of Care
Finance leaders should collaborate with clinical leaders on clinician cost education so they have a greater awareness of room fees, nursing fees, and radiology fees needed to treat ED patients.
Hospital COPD Bundle Curbs Costly Readmissions
University of Cincinnati Medical Center used improvement science to develop and implement a ‘COPD care bundle’ for COPD patients who are often readmitted due to care-delivery failures.
How Cleveland Clinic Saved Millions Through Smarter Energy Use
The Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic has launched several initiatives to manage its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning costs, which can drain the energy budget. For example, using setbacks to lower the thermostat just two degrees saves $600,000 a year.
From Disparate Data to Informed Strategies: Using Technology to Transform Quality, Costs, and the Patient Experience
Using data aggregated from disparate sources, hospitals and health systems that can apply data analytics to assess clinical and financial performance and develop strategies that help the ensure their organizations’ long-term success.
Low Nurse Staffing Can Cost a Facility Millions of Dollars
Brian Hudson explains how the ongoing nursing shortage can affect a healthcare organization’s bottom line.
Insurers, Hospitals See Different Paths to Boosting Competition
Jan. 29—Hospital and insurer advocates urged the Trump administration to take differing approaches in its quest to increase competition in health care.
Using Predictive Analytics to Align ED Staffing Resources With Patient Demand
A data analysis provided the basis for developing an emergency department staffing model that more precisely accounted for day-to-day variations in volume of patient visits.