Quality Manager™

Quality Manager™

Reducing cost, with a focus on quality

Fine-tune the delivery of care and reduce costly avoidable patient events with Quality Manager™. Detailed data mining highlights opportunities to enhance efficiency and quality care measures. The result is better patient care and a drive toward improved operational and financial performance.

Quality Manager, an essential component of the QualityConnect™ program, has saved hospitals and health systems across the country millions of dollars by isolating and prioritizing clinical process improvements and quality management opportunities.

Measure and trend patient demographics, treatment patterns, patient flow, resource utilization, provider comparisons, events after admission and the resulting impact of these factors on patient outcomes.

Key features:

• Patient outcome: Leverage captured patient and process data to identify strategic quality of care improvement opportunities.
• Financial performance: Pinpoint areas of care where process modifications will yield greatest cost savings without sacrificing quality.
• Operational performance: Track patient flow and resource utilization for a deeper understanding of clinical and operational outcomes and expenditures.
• Strategic planning: Benchmark against peer organizations and implement best-practices that have a real-world impact on healthcare institutions.

Methodologies used:

• Complication Risk Model
• Complication and Complication Morbidity Risk Models
• Length of Stay Risk Model
• Mortality Risk Model
• National Quality Forum "Hospital Performance: Additional Priority Areas" CareScience Risk Adjusted Average Length of Inpatient Hospital Stay Measure

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