What if you could visualize your organization's performance on clinical outcomes compared to other health systems and use that data to reduce CMS penalties, improve patient care, and compete better in the marketplace? We have great news: You can. In this video, Nordic's Eric Pennington walks through the dashboard we configured on top of CMS' pay for performance data, reporting on metrics for hospital-acquired conditions, value-based purchasing, and readmission penalties.
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External data is becoming more critical to healthcare provider organizations in successfully executing your business strategy. Today I'm going to talk about how you can leverage publicly available data from CMS to identify key areas for improvement in your organization, both in terms of reducing penalties from CMS and improving clinical outcomes.
This is a dashboard we built on top of CMS' pay for performance data, reporting on metrics for hospital-acquired conditions, value-based purchasing, and readmission penalties. This first screen allows us to identify high-level trends across the country in terms of the penalties and incentives that organizations are receiving.
Navigating to the hospital-acquired conditions screen, we can get a very quick perspective on how the country as a whole as well as independent organizations are performing as it pertains to their HACs. I can select this hospital to identify that this organization is paying a significantly higher penalty rate than other organizations, and we can quickly see that C. diff and central line infections are the two biggest contributors to their high infection rate. These would be areas we can partner with the organization to put optimization and data programs in place to help drive the success of these areas.
Navigating to the readmissions tab, looking at the same organization, we can identify there are several admission types driving a higher readmission rate than the national average. Looking at their heart attacks, COPD, and hip and knee replacements, these are areas the organization can focus on to help drive down overall peanlties and improve patient outcomes.
This is one example of how you can leverage publicly available data to drive the success of your organization. If you're interested in talking about this example and others, please don't hesitate to reach out.