CARDIOVASCULAR QUALITY CARE
Hospital/Health System Services
Identifying opportunities to enhance value, implementing appropriate changes and tracking progress toward reaching your goals serve to build a foundation for continual quality/value improvement.
Delivering quality and value is key to maintaining and growing the cardiovascular service line.
Patient Experience
Clinical Best Practices
Ongoing Monitoring
Clinical Best Practices/Standardization/Benchmarking
- Provides an ongoing management and feedback mechanism to enhance system capabilities, identify and mitigate cost-drivers, and eliminate redundancies
- Standardize care, as clinically appropriate, through: evidence-based medicine; best practices; indications/appropriateness criteria for procedure/admission; matching patient to modality/treatment; CV patient registries; outcome indicators; hospital admission/discharge criteria; pre-printed physician orders; patient and family educational materials; protocols, guidelines and algorithms; physician compliance; information system support; staff education
- Eliminate medical errors and enhance performance through aggressive quality improvement programs; high reliability organization (HRO) processes; internal and external benchmarking with dashboards
Clinical Quality Assessment/Improvement
- Quality improvement programs designed to ensure that a culture of quality permeates the organization; prepares you to compete on quality in the open marketplace
- Comparisons to both internal and external benchmarks for all key patient categories; reportable core measures for key cardiac services; PI activities focused on key quality outcomes; active physician participation; key clinical outcomes reported proactively to major payers
- Confidential, physician-to-physician quality reviews
New Payment Methodologies
- Enhance your capability to bundle/package price and provide internal cost and outcome information; CFA can design/develop and establish pricing; market appropriate bundles; and ensure business and management systems that support ongoing implementation
- CFA’s coordinated, “value chain” approach leads to standardization, care coordination, enhanced outcomes
Cost Reduction/Cost Management
- CFA’s approach uses a “value chain” philosophy including best practices, benchmarking, and active physician participation
- The CV operations analysis includes cost modeling, cost reduction and cost management analyses; updating the cost accounting system; the identification and targeting of high cost drivers; and specific tactics to lower costs
- The goal is to enhance your hospital’s cost per case position compared to local/regional competitors
Customer/Patient Experience Assessment, Management and Development
- Assessment of patient experience/perceptions of care; plans, actions and approaches to enhance patient experience; reported by discrete department/service line; focus on customer service and clinical quality
- Programs for measuring and monitoring overall customer satisfaction, including patients, payers/employers, and physicians
Population Health/Accountable Care and Managed Care
- Operational, protocol-based assistance designed to reduce costs and enhance price competitiveness
- Request for Proposal (RFP) responses; bundled or packaged pricing
- Specialist/PCP collaboration and partnerships
CVIS; Data Collection and Management
- CFA promotes a CVIS Vision and Strategy that integrates shared data; supports clinical operations/quality and research; creates a performance improvement management system to track, report and distribute key metrics, matching key metrics to appropriate organizational level
- Systems capabilities include point-of-care data entry; hospital and program specific key performance metrics; integration of all key (disparate) databases; user-friendly interfaces, queries and reporting; timeliness; “true” cost accounting information; meets internal and external reporting requirements
- CFA conducts a CVIS Assessment and develops a Project Plan, including clinical workflow process efficiency documentation, definition of reporting elements, and an implementation plan; key components include customized report templates, staff/physician education, optimized CVIS integration with Epic and other hospital systems
- CFA’s wide-ranging qualifications include image and data storage products; cardiac cath lab monitoring systems and imaging modalities; Metrics for financial performance, operations, clinical outcomes and business development