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Shaping Healthcare by Helping Health Systems Create Sustainable Value & Demonstrating Quality Care
Improving the future of healthcare, no matter how that might be perceived or interpreted, is a wildly daunting task. Think about it. Our Healthcare system includes private and public clinics, hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and entire ecosystems that include patient health information and data.
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Hospitals face increased need amid pandemic to improve patient throughput
An acute care hospital cannot begin to be able to deliver cost-effective care if it lacks a fully coordinated approach for moving patients from admission to discharge.
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How to determine appropriate patient status and navigate observation-level care
Challenged by the status determination process, many hospitals often inappropriately admit patients into observation or inpatient status. The nature of the challenge is illustrated in the exhibit below, which shows that observation rates among different CMS regions vary by as many as 8 percentage points.
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Outpatient Observation Management – Impact on Financial Cost & Best Practices
Placing a patient in the most appropriate level of care is important to both the patient and the hospital. Find out impacts and best practices on observation management from Claro Healthcare.
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The Nursing Shortage in the Pandemic: Strategies to Promote a Resilient Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic has created both a labor and skills shortage in registered nurses across the country. Explore ways to promote a resilient nursing workforce from Claro Healthcare.
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How Orlando Health Stemmed Healthcare Costs By Eliminating Unnecessary Clinical Process Variation
A six-step initiative by Orlando Health in central Florida to eliminate avoidable variation in healthcare delivery reduced the health system’s average length of stay (LOS) by roughly 0.75 days, while yielding a corresponding financial benefit of about $1.2 million.
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How Orlando Health Improved Its Bottom Line By Optimizing Observation Services
Bringing together clinician “huddles” for quick reviews of the status of patients under observation was just one step that enabled the Florida health system to substantially reduce length of stay among observation patients, thereby reducing costs and increasing revenues by tens of millions of dollars.
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Reducing Pharmacy Costs Through Improved Utilization
By identifying unnecessary spend and changing expensive clinical practice patterns, a four-hospital system achieved nearly $2 million in pharmacy cost savings.
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The Value Journey: Improving Cost Structure Through Performance Improvement
A New York hospital offers a case example of how to undertake performance improvement on a systemwide scale to prepare for value-based care.
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