Category: Cost & Quality

Real-World Perspective on Value-Based Care: Q&A With Dawn Edwards

By: Enrique Bakemeyer
Date: March 24, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: clinical integration, clinically integrated network, population health, value-based care

Dawn Edwards is the Consultant of Clinical Care and Quality for Healthcare Business Insights, Part of Clarivate. Dawn has expertise in population health management, value-based contracting, clinical integration, and payer-provider networks. In the following Q&A, Edwards shares some key insights about value-based care and clinical integration by addressing common questions from HBI members.  What advice […]

Top 5 Healthcare Quality Priorities in 2020

By: Leah Bilitz
Date: March 4, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: chronic conditions, harm reduction, Patient Experience, patient falls, readmissions, Sepsis, social determinants

Healthcare Business Insights, Part of Decision Resources Group, is a community of more than 1,900 hospitals across 50 U.S. states. Each year, HBI surveys our members on their top priorities. The findings of this survey allow our members to see the planned initiatives of peers and confirm that their strategic plans are not missing any […]

CMS Discharge Planning Rule: Are You in Compliance?

By: Vyshnavi Manda
Date: February 12, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: care transitions, CMS, discharge planning, Medicare, post-acute care, readmission

The recent CMS discharge planning rule that went into effect in November 2019 included several changes aimed at improving care transitions and encouraging patients’ involvement in their follow-up treatment and care protocols. (Click here to review the rule in the Federal Register.) With those rules in place, it is now imperative for organizations to familiarize […]

Coronavirus: How Can Hospitals Prepare?

By: Enrique Bakemeyer
Date: February 3, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: communicable disease, contact precautions, coronavirus, infection control, infectious disease, patient screening

Last week, the coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city Wuhan continued to spread. The World Health Organization declared a global emergency, and the first case of person-to-person virus transmission was recorded in the United States. The coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of other viral outbreaks in recent memory, including Ebola in 2014, and SARS in […]

How Northwell Health Cut Down ED Boarding by 40%

By: Vyshnavi Manda
Date: January 30, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: bottlenecks, ED admissions, ED boarding, ED operations, efficiency, left without being seen, patient boarding

ED boarding continues to be an issue for hospitals and health systems in the United States. Many organizations struggle to streamline the ED and admission processes to facilitate improved efficiency. To learn more about the various practices some organizations are adopting to improve their boarding times, HBI spoke with Dr. John D’Angelo, the executive director […]

Best Practices for Addressing Shortage of Mental Health Services

By: Enrique Bakemeyer, Leah Bilitz
Date: January 21, 2020
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: mental health, psychiatric care, suicide risk

HBI Report Reveals Best Practices for Addressing Shortage of Mental Health Services Every day, articles in the news highlight the need for greater access to mental health services. Rural areas in the United States are hit especially hard by a shortage of mental health professionals, but even residents of more populated areas face challenges in […]

4 Digital Solutions to Overcome Common Challenges Related to Diabetes

By: Nithu Mariya Johnson
Date: November 21, 2019
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: Diabetes Solutions, Digitization, lifestyle changes program

Diabetes is a common and costly problem in the United States: one in ten Americans suffer from diabetes and estimated direct and indirect medical costs were around $237 billion and $90 in 2017, according to a 2018 study by the American Diabetes Association. Indirect costs of diabetes include missed work due to poor health, poor […]

3 Successful Data-Driven Approaches to Spotting Sepsis

By: Kshipra K
Date: September 24, 2019
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: AI, artificial intelligence, Data, data-driven, Machine learning, Sepsis

It should come as no surprise that one of the key factors in combating sepsis is recognizing it early on. To lay the ground for further improving sepsis recognition, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) revised its guidelines, which primarily combine the 3-hour and 6-hour bundles into a single “hour-1 bundle.” This new bundle calls for […]

Expanding the Use of Telemental Health

By: Vyshnavi Manda
Date: August 21, 2019
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: care access, mental health, telebehavioral health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, telemental health

An increase in the use of telemedicine can be witnessed across the country, with a growing number of physicians getting involved in these services. According to a recent study on physician interest in telemedicine—which was published by Doximity—physicians reporting telemedicine as a skill they currently possess has almost doubled within a span of three years. […]