Providing physicians direct access to cost and quality data
Topics: Hospital-Physician Alignment, Physician Issues, Clinical Integration, Performance Improvement
Mounting pressure to collaborate on clinical performance
It has never been more critical for hospitals and physicians to collaborate on clinical performance improvement. Payers, patients, and policymakers are gaining unprecedented visibility into clinical outcomes. Pay-for-performance programs are on the rise. CMS is moving toward value-based purchasing and piloting bundled payments.
Increasingly, adequate reimbursement will hinge upon hospitals’ ability to engage physicians in clinical practice change.
Most physicians lack access to actionable performance data
Unfortunately, efforts to collaborate often derail before they even begin, as the vast majority of physicians have limited or no access to their own performance profiles. Those that do are often highly skeptical of the underlying data, citing concerns about the lack of apples-to-apples comparisons, case attribution, and the inability to access case-level details.
How We Help
Crimson Continuum of Care, part of the Crimson Clinical Advantage suite of offerings, provides the technology, dedicated support, and expertise needed to help hospitals meaningfully engage physicians in quality and cost savings initiatives. Our business intelligence technology is designed specifically for physician end users, aggregating data from across the care continuum into a visually intuitive, Web-based platform that offers:
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Comprehensive views of performance including a full range of cost, quality, and utilization metrics and aggregation of data from inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory care settings.
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Severity-adjusted comparisons that account for factors such as patient type, illness severity, physician specialty, and hospital type, using 3M’s proprietary methodology.
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Fully customizable benchmarks that place individual and group performance in statistical context relative to system, regional, state, and national benchmarks.
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Visual reconstruction of the care timeline for individual patients, facilitating identification of specific physician practice patterns and improvement opportunities.
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Ability to exclude cases and recalculate performance measures on the fly, mitigating physician concerns about attribution and data integrity for specific cases.
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