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Five Lessons for Building Adaptive Healthcare Data Models that Support Innovation

Activity-Based Costing and Clinical Service Lines Team up to Improve Financial and Clinical Outcomes

Four Effective Opioid Interventions for Healthcare Leaders

How to Apply Machine Learning in Healthcare to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

Custom Care Management Algorithms that Actually Reveal Risk

Diversity in the Workplace: A Principle-Driven Approach to Broadening the Talent Pool

Improving Patient Safety: Machine Learning Targets an Urgent Concern

Application of Analytics to DNFB Improvement Effort Continues to Deliver Impressive Results

Resolving Uncompensated Care: Artificial Intelligence Takes on One of Healthcare's Biggest Costs

Accuracy of Readmission Risk Assessment Improved by Machine Learning

The Four Essential Zones of a Healthcare Data Lake

Five Solutions to Controlling Healthcare’s Cost Problem

Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: 5 Ways to Improve

Saving Lives: Effective Healthcare Communication Empowers Care Management

The Healthcare Analytics Ecosystem: A Must-Have in Today’s Transformation

Enhanced Recovery Program Improves Elective Colorectal Surgical Outcomes

Opportunity Analysis Permits Successful Execution of At-Risk Contracts

Using Data to Spotlight Variation and Transform Total Joint Care

Clinical and Financial Partnership Reduces Denials and Write-Offs by More than $3 Million

Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and Process Redesign Reduces Readmission Rates by 50 Percent

Advancing Health Equity – Data Driven Strategies Reduce Health Inequities

Unleashing the Data to Sustain Spine Service Line Improvements

Care Management Solutions Improve Sprint to Value

Communication in Healthcare Culture: Eight Steps to Uphold Outcomes Improvement

Blood Conservation Program Yields Millions of Dollars in Savings

Data-Driven Approach Identifies Nearly $33 Million of Savings Annually

Designing Hospital Quality Function Around the Value Chain

Using Data-Driven Insights to Improve Practice Management

Capturing the Voice of the Patient: Using PROMs Improves Shared Decision Making

Improving Clinical Processes and Effectiveness of Care through Creation of a Disease-Specific Registry

Clinically Meaningful Quality Metrics Improve the Provider Experience

Comprehensive Approach to CAUTI Prevention Leads to Dramatic Reduction in Infections

Using Analytics and Technology to Improve the ED Patient Experience

Quick Registration Dramatically Reduces Delays in ED Patient Care

Emergency Department Triage Redesign Dramatically Reduces Wait Times, LOS, and Left Without Being Seen Rates

A Data-Driven Systems Approach to Improving Emergency Care

Readiness Assessment Crucial First Step in Building an Outcomes Improvement Focused Organization

Labor and Delivery Transformations Lower Costs and Improve Care

Standardized Best Practices Improve Elective Colon Surgery Outcomes

Clinical Data Abstraction as a Service Improves Accuracy and Efficiency

Denial Management Improvement Effort Produces $14.99M Reduction in Denials

Improving the Transparency of Physician Compensation in Value-Based Care

How Allina Engaged Clinicians and Analytics to Improve Influenza Vaccination Rate

Combatting Opioid Abuse with Data-Driven Prescription Reduction

Successfully Sustaining Sepsis Outcomes

Enhancing Mental Health Care Transitions Reduces Unnecessary Costly Readmissions

Driving Strategic Advantage Through Widespread Analytics Adoption

Data-Driven Process Improvement Raises Patient Safety for Highest-Risk Medication

MultiCare’s Transformational Journey Toward Sustained Outcomes Improvement

Faster Data Acquisition Delivers Speedy Time to Value

How Allina and Minnesota Perinatal Physicians Lowered Stress and Raised Satisfaction for High-Risk Maternal Patients

Driving Down Costly COPD-related Readmissions with NOREADMITS Bundle

Collaborative Partnerships and a Three-System Approach to Driving Healthcare Transformation

Reducing Unwanted Variation in Healthcare Clears the Way for Outcomes Improvement

Data-Driven Clinical Documentation Improvement Program Increases Revenue and Improves Accuracy of Risk Adjusted Quality Metrics

Mission Health Receives 100 Percent of At-Risk Dollars in Payer Incentive Program

Systematic Improvement of Diabetes Care in the Inpatient Setting

How Texas Children’s Turned Child Diabetes Management into a Community Cause

DKA Risk Prediction Tool Helps Reduce Hospitalizations

Improving Population Health for Children with Diabetes

Improving Diabetic Care in the Ambulatory Environment

Analytics Support the Delivery of Effective Diabetes Self-Management Education

Integrated Care Management—Improves Care and Population Health While Reducing Costs

Care Management: A Critical Component of Effective Population Health Management

When Healthcare Data Analysts Fulfill the Data Detective Role

How to Significantly Reduce Inpatient Admission Times and Improve Patient Satisfaction

From the Boardroom to the Bedside: Using Analytics to Drive a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Using Value to Prioritize and Guide Analytics Investments

How to Significantly Reduce Sepsis Mortality

ICU Avoidance: Lowering Costs, Patient Risk, and LOS

Nurse-Driven Protocol Optimizes Management of Post Op Afib While Reducing LOS and Costs

Leveraging Risk Assessment to Decrease LOS and Cost for PCI Patients

Data-Driven Approach to Improving Cardiovascular Care and Operations Leads to $75M in Improvements

A Service Line Approach Improves Women’s Health at UPMC

Service Lines and Activity-Based Costing Reveal True Cost of Care for UPMC

How to Reduce Clinical Variation and Improve Outcomes While Demonstrating a Positive ROI

Developing a Multilevel Approach to Improving Population Health

40,000 Covered Lives: Improving Performance on ACO MSSP Metrics

How One Hospital Embraced Patient Satisfaction Transparency

Reducing HAC Rates to Keep Kids Safe and Healthy

Evidence-Based Care Process Model Reduces SSIs and Readmissions

Patient-Centered LOS Reduction Initiative Improves Outcomes, Saves Costs

How One Hospital Took the Pain Out of Getting Paid

How an IDS Standardized Care for Women While Increasing Market Share

Turning Data from Five Different EHR Vendors into Actionable Insights

A Care Model to Support the Needs of Medically Complex Patients

Reduce Readmissions with Predictive Analytics and Process Redesign

7 Features of Highly Effective Outcomes Improvement Projects

Sepsis: The Impact of Timely, Trustworthy Data and a Systemwide Approach to Care Improvement

Calculating the ROI of Diabetes Care Improvement

Nationally Recognized Transitional Rehabilitation Program’s Strategies

Care Management Strategy Improves Lives of Stroke Patients

Allina Health’s Dedication to Quality Improvement Delivers On the Triple Aim

Innovative Approach to Rehabilitation Care Improves Patient Outcomes

Why Process Measures Are Often More Important Than Outcome Measures in Healthcare

How Allina Saved $13 Million By Optimizing LOS

Saving Lives with Best Practices and Improvements in Sepsis Care

The Improvement Methodology From Thibodaux That TJC Calls “Best Practice”

Keys to Successful Quality Improvement: A CEO’s Perspective

Allina Health: A Successful Approach to Improving VTE Care and Prevention across a Large Health System