Health Catalyst: Recent Episodes
Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics, and outcomes improvement company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care.
Gregory A Spencer, MD (Chief Medical & Chief Medical Information Officer, Crystal Run Healthcare) Louis G. Cervone, Jr. (Director of Business Intelligence, Crystal Run Healthcare)
Crystal Run has been developing an analytics-supported approach to patient care using disease-specific metrics, costs, trends, simulation and predicted outcomes to motivate patients, improve outcomes, and decrease costs. Using Diabetes patients as an example, Crystal Run has focused on costs and complications for high-risk and low-risk cohorts by provider and location. From the patient perspective, they are then able to look at patient-specific lab results and costs, care recommendations, and a comparison of current status to predicted complications. During office visits, they will have the ability to share risk levels and care simulations with patients based on their current status and show the predicted impact for of making lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation, improving HgA1C levels, losing weight, decreasing blood pressure, etc. The predictive model is based on multiple regression analysis and Charlson risk scores and compares the individual patient based on their current status to the experience and clinical progression of similar patients. The session will explore questions such as, “How can we measure health?” and “What factors can predict health?”. The answers to these questions are at the core of building an effective predictive analytics model.
Kathleen Carberry, R.N., M.P.H. (Director, Outcomes and Impact Service, Texas Children’s Hospital)
Appendicitis is the most common acute surgical condition of the abdomen with approximately 250,000 cases of appendicitis annually in the United States. These cases account for an estimated one million hospital days per year and consume 11.8 percent of all hospital discharges for gastrointestinal diseases. This case study will detail how Texas Children’s Hospital is using analytics technology, team-based processes, and evidence-based best practices to drive higher quality, lower cost care for appendicitis.
Mark Hohulin (Senior Vice President, Healthcare Analytics, OSF Healthcare System ) Roopa Foulger (Executive Director, Data Delivery, OSF Healthcare)
A few years ago OSF began its journey into analytics. Realizing this is only a 30 percent technical solution, it worked hard to build organizational support from key leaders. This resulted in greater than a $9 million in savings in terms of hard dollars or cost avoidance. In this case study, OSF will discuss its journey, some of the lessons learned along the way, and wisdom from failures that have been turned into wins.
Christopher S. Russi, DO, FACEP (Chair - Division of Community Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic)
This session aims to review the strategy and vision necessary to begin standardizing the clinical practice of Emergency Medicine across a large geographic and economically disperse area. We will review why clinical integration is critical in today’s healthcare world but emphasize that success is likely limited without investments in high quality, enthusiastic, engaged healthcare providers. Within one year the results included:
- Reduced transfer rates
- Dropped service line write-offs
- Improved billing and coding
- Rising HCAHPS scores
- Increased success with hiring and retention saving significant contract hiring costs.
Frederick C. Ryckman, MD (Professor of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery, Sr. Vice President, Medical Operations, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital)
Healthcare will not be able to save enough money by continuing to focus on reducing costs in supply chain, labor costs, and procedures. We must move to standardizing essential elements of care where the bulk of our costs reside. Standardization leads to improved safety, efficiency, reliability, patient experience, and outcomes. And surprisingly, it also leads to greater opportunities for customization when done well. Join Dr. Frederick Ryckman, Sr. Vice President of Medical Operations, as he shares successes and outcomes in eliminating waste and reducing costs in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Some highlights include:
- Use of mathematic modeling techniques to “right size” intensive care units and manage urgent and emergent OR case load
- 10.5 Million in preventable costs through standardization of surgical site infection (SSI) prevention
- Improve Nurse at the Bedside Staffing and Work flow through predictive modeling and census prediction
- Use of Tablet based Situational Awareness model to improve workflow and real time information for managers and leaders
- Using patient entered data to manage chronic complex diseases.
Vi Shaffer (Research Vice President, Global Industry Services Director, Healthcare Providers, Gartner)
Market forces, business needs, and technology advances must combine if we are to accomplish the transformation of healthcare. In this session, you will learn:
- What are the major forces compelling and enabling radical change in the design and delivery of healthcare?
- How does advanced analytics fit into the picture?
- What actions should executive and analytics leaders be taking to realize the pivotal role of information in the future of healthcare?