Real-time information creates an evidence-based foundation for achieving optimal care outcomes
Focusing on the current care needs of individual patients – as determined by their physicians – and tracking recovery to desired progress plans in real time, hospitals can assign resources to achieve the best possible outcomes:
- Directing resources to the known needs of current patients, hospitals get the right people to the right patients at the right time
- Effective, evidence-based caregiver allocation leads to higher quality care, a better patient experience and the shortest possible length of stay
- Based on patient progress plans that are updated in real time, schedules move from reactive response to proactive management, becoming more predictable and more reliable
August 6th, 2010
Clairvia customer and highly respected national leader, Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE., was interviewed by HFMA in July in an article titled “Staffing Issues: A Major Concern for Nursing.” Sanford, senior vice president and CNO of Catholic Health Initiatives raises very important questions such as truly understanding the cost of nursing services, and how CHI is addressing the business case for quality.
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June 7th, 2010
Part 1: Length of Stay
The other day I heard that even with increased taxes and program cutbacks, within a few years the rising costs of medical care would overcome those efforts to keep the US financially healthy. While we might not have “signed up” to solve the country’s financial problems, you can bet that those who did sign up to solve them will be putting huge pressure on the health care industry to control costs, while maintaining care quality.
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April 15th, 2010
As knowledge and technology in healthcare has advanced leaps and bounds in the past 50 years, are patients at a higher risk for errors occurring during their treatment, and if so, what changes need to be made to make our patients safer?
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March 18th, 2010
Like most people, I’ve been following the Healthcare Reform debate. A year ago, when it all began, we seemed to be about two problems — access and costs. But all the action to date has been around access – with the insurance industry in the cross hairs. Once something happens there, however, the attention will surely shift to costs, which I think will make access look like a much easier problem.
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March 1st, 2010
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been instructed to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in healthcare spending.” As HHS seeks ways to get more for less, most of us believe value based purchasing (VBP) could be a transformational agent of change. In the article Healthcare reformers are focusing on value; are you?, published in the August, 2009 issue of Healthcare Financial Management, authors Hal Andrew and Gunter Wessels describe the proposed VBP programs, the challenges they pose to hospital executives, and some proactive steps leaders can take to maintain high performance on outcomes measures while controlling costs.
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