Real-Time Business Performance Platform Guides Indiana Community Hospital’s CEO Path to Cost, Profitability & Quality Management.

“Our focus on quality, cost & patient satisfaction demands access to real-time information. Experience and intuition only take you so far.” – Indiana Community Hospital CEO
  1. 150 bed community hospital
  2. $300MM annual patient revenue
  3. 6,450 discharges, 24,900 patient days
  4. Management team tasked to drive improvements in profitability, quality and cost management
  5. CIO searching for effective & affordable MEDITECH costing solution
  6. VP inspired by Bill Gates’ Speed of Thought and wants to use IT to provide information faster,
  7. Access to real-time data limited in legacy systems
  8. State reporting & physician report cards required significant resources
  9. Reports offered limited customization, therefore had little utility for managing hospital operations
  10. Evolving to a value based purchasing, accountable care organization without the necessary information to guide decision making

The Challenges

  1. Access to real-time data limited in legacy systems
  2. State reporting & physician report cards required significant resources
  3. Reports offered limited customization, therefore had little utility for managing hospital operations
  4. Evolving to a value based purchasing, accountable care organization without the necessary information to guide decision making

The PowerHealth Solution

QuickStart Deployment to Rapidly Achieve Value

  1. PowerHealth solution implemented within 45 days of first contact by CIO
  2. Minimal resources required from hospital IT team

PowerHealth OnDemand Enterprise Analytics

  1. Access to data extends to all clinical department heads
  2. Integrates & visualizes patient-level data from multiple sources
  3. PowerHealth team helps customize reports & add data sources as needed
  4. Workload for reporting reduced by 65%

Impacts

  1. Rapidly identified clinical department responsible for lowering overall HCAP score
  2. Responded to CMS grant opportunity by accessing necessary information within 15 minutes
  3. Department heads can understand cost per physician in under 10 minutes, they have implemented an incentive program to focus on cost control
  4. Repeatedly evaluated cost of expensive capital investments
  5. Compared with peers in Indiana, this Indiana Community Hospital measured in top 15% of quality while achieving lowest cost per patient