Optimizing Care Transitions
Luis Castillo describes how healthcare organizations can help patients make smoother transitions to post-acute facilities.
Physician Advisers: Bridging the Divides in Health Care
In recent years, healthcare professionals have faced increasing pressure to provide high-quality care to optimize payment. Simultaneously, they have had to strive to reduce inefficiencies in patient throughput and healthcare delivery to comply with regulations promulgated by government and commercial payers.
Physician Advisers: Bridging the Divides in Health Care
In recent years, healthcare professionals have faced increasing pressure to provide high-quality care to optimize payment. Simultaneously, they have had to strive to reduce inefficiencies in patient throughput and healthcare delivery to comply with regulations promulgated by government and commercial payers.
A Finance Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines
To be able to effectively promote the adoption of evidence-based clinical guidelines, healthcare finance leaders must first clearly understand how the guidelines are created and deployed.
Finding Cost Savings in the Era of Value
The transition to value requires healthcare organizations to control costs while maintaining quality and patient satisfaction.
Raising CMI Through a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Community Hospital Setting
By reducing interhospital transfers for critical care, one hospital was able to increase its case mix index and increase revenue sufficiently to help support a population health initiative.
CHRISTUS Health Pioneers Safety Experience Triad
Debi Pasley of CHRISTUS Health describes how the health system brought together three quality-improvement initiatives in one cohesive program. Results have exceeded expectations.
Learning Lean Six Sigma Lingo: DMAIC
Six Sigma DMAIC processes and tools are designed to identify root causes and ensure the right solutions are being implemented.
Getting Lean
Piedmont Healthcare used a Lean Six Sigma process to reduce duplicative revenue cycle processes by 60 percent.
Building Value Frameworks That Work for Patients
These practices can guide the design of value-analysis frameworks that promote value in patient care and outcomes.