Penicillin Skin Testing Leads to Better Care and Significant Savings
Bruce Jones explains the benefits—and simplicity—of confirming a patient is allergic to penicillin before opting to use alternative treatments.
Managing the 30-Day Readmissions Window
Mary Kay Thalken explains that ensuring continuity of care to reduce readmissions requires a current, comprehensive referral network. Automating the process can be helpful as well.
Repurposing TDABC: Case Examples from a New York Hospital
Time-driven activity-based costing principles provide an excellent basis for helping healthcare organizations identify opportunities for improving their operations.
3 Ways Physician-Owned Models Can Drive Engagement and Value
Surveys show that a culture change frequently is needed to enable improving quality of care and reducing costs. A case study illustrates how this worked for the Holson Medical Group.
5 Keys to Successful Performance Improvement
Bold moves, leadership, and constituent engagement are key to performance improvement initiatives.
Safety Net System Achieves $130M in Fiscal Improvements in 4 Years
Denials management and “keepage” strategies—keeping services within the health system—helped Maricopa Integrated Health Services improve its margins even in the face of a challenging payer mix.
A New Framework for Healthcare Performance Improvement
Improvement initiatives must increasingly focus on long-term, high-impact areas that reengineer clinical care, sharpen an organization’s service portfolio, and exploit the system’s scale of operations.
Delivering on Potential: The RTLS Effect on Productivity
A North Dakota health system has seen positive results in patient wait times and staff productivity by using real-time location system technology.
Advanced Analytics Must Drive the Next Round of Productivity Initiatives
To achieve the next round of cost-reduction goals facing hospitals, care delivery models that use a different mix and quantity of healthcare professionals must be put in place. Supported by advanced analytics and statistical modeling, hospital leadership can demonstrate how fewer labor hours and lower total costs can deliver consistent and excellent clinical outcomes.
Multimodal Approach Saves MedStar Health $13M in 8 Years
Many hospital leaders focus on price negotiations with manufacturers to reduce pharmacy costs. However, pharmacists at one 10-hospital health system recognize the cost-saving benefits of engaging physicians, standardizing 340B program processes, and employing other strategies.