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Atlas
Elk
Regional Health Center
Learn how Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys, PA used Atlas
to help develop a Congestive Heart Failure Clinical Pathway. The
results were impressive with the hospital documenting lower mortality
and length of stay than other hospitals treating patients with similar
conditions.
Hospital
uses MediQual's™ Atlas Outcomes software to improve
Emergency Department processes.
Using
Diagnosis Codes to Monitor Post Operative Complications
Atlas can provide you with important information related
to surgical complications. Atlas calculates surgical complications
using ICD-9-CM codes that are included on the chart at the time
of DRG coding.
Gnaden
Huetten Memorial Hospital Case Study
Using
Atlas To Evaluate One-Day Stays
The Payment Error Prevention Program from The Centers of Medicare
and Medicaid Services focuses on One Day Hospital Stays with the
goal of reducing unnecessary one-day stays. One-day stays can be
a reflection of ineffective admission screening criteria, failure
to use outpatient observation services, billing errors or the inability
to identify patients who may benefit from outpatient services. Therefore
it is important to analyze this patient population to determine
if there are utilization issues at your facility. Atlas allows
you to not only identify the rate of one-day stays but allows you
benchmark to other facilities, trend rates over time, and evaluate
individual patient care.
Atlas Executive
Atlas
Executive® Departmental Performance Monitoring
Each clinical department in the hospital must demonstrate effective
medical staff leadership, in part, through the continuous assessment
and improvement of the quality of care and services provided. To
assure that important activities are measured and that improvement
efforts are collaborative and interdisciplinary, clinical leaders
must have information both within the department and across the
facility.
Medical
Staff Performance Appraisals
As required by The Joint Commission, hospitals conduct performance
reviews for each of their physicians to ensure eligibility for reappointment
to the medical staff. Each review should reflect the results of
ongoing quality of care monitoring and provide reference data for
both internal and external comparisons. The process of creating
concise, information-rich reports can be time intensive, and cumbersome.
Strategic
Planning
Hospital leadership must ensure that appropriate and effective services
are provided for all of their patients through the shared vision
of the clinical and management teams. Assessing community demographics
and understanding the diseases and conditions that are unique to
your hospital environment are critical aspects of care. In order
to achieve that collaboration, it is important to have timely, accurate
data about your patient populations in an understandable format.
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