Articles
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Planning
Centura Health’s Practice Variation Reduction Reduces Costs, Improves Quality, and Boosts Financial Outcomes
Organization Overview
Centura Health connects individuals, families, and neighborhoods across Colorado and western Kansas with more than 6,000 physicians and 21,000 of the best hearts and minds in healthcare. Through its 17 hospitals, two senior living communities, health neighborhoods, physician practices/clinics, home care and hospice services, and Flight For Life® Colorado, Centura Health is making the region’s best healthcare accessible and affordable in every community it serves.
Population Health Initiative
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Planning
Ochsner Health System Boosts Immunization Rates Among Ambulatory Patients
Organization Overview
Founded in 1942 by five physicians, Ochsner Health System is one of the largest independent academic health systems in the United States and Louisiana’s largest not-for-profit health system, with 29 hospitals owned, managed, and affiliated, more than 60 health centers, more than 17,000 employees, over 2,500 affiliated physicians in more than 90 medical specialties, and subspecialties.
Population Health Initiative
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Planning
Ochsner Health System’s Social Determinants of Health Program
Organization Overview
Founded in 1942 by five physicians, Ochsner Health System is one of the largest independent academic health systems in the United States and Louisiana’s largest not-for-profit health system, with 29 hospitals owned, managed, and affiliated, more than 60 health centers, more than 17,000 employees, over 2,500 affiliated physicians in more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties.
Population Health Initiative
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Planning
Intermountain Healthcare Drives Heart Healthiness Within Its Community
Organization Overview
Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 22 hospitals, a broad range of clinics and services, about 1,400 employed primary care and secondary care physicians at more than 185 clinics in the Intermountain Medical Group, and health insurance plans from SelectHealth.
Population Health Initiative
Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis
Specialized Value Analysis Teams for Resource Utilization
Donna Gammarato discusses the importance of creating specialized value analysis teams to analyze resource utilization and reduce costs
Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Career/Professional Development
AHRMM's Senior Director, Mike Schiller, Makes the Case for UDI Adoption
In an effort to better protect patients during product recalls, and to improve care at a population health level, hospitals must begin to accurately capture medical device data through UDI adoption.
Change Management, Leadership, Career/Professional Development
Leadership Skills to Create a Culture of Teamwork
Professional Coach Mark Noon discusses the types of skills and actions that a leader needs to create a team-oriented culture.