Data strategies & benchmarks : the monthly advisory for health care executives
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Data Strateg Benchmarks · Jun 1999
Data from multihospital study show low compliance with pain management protocols.
Taking pains to follow clinical guidelines. Years after the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research developed clinical practice guidelines for post-surgical pain management, data collected from acute care hospitals in Wisconsin indicate low compliance with the recommendations.
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Data Strateg Benchmarks · Jun 1999
Artificial intelligence guides system's best practices, cutting costs and improving services.
One for the history books. Clinical care improvement initiatives guided by a sophisticated artificial intelligence program have helped a major Virginia integrated health system make dramatic improvements in the cost and quality of its health care services. Find out how the technological innovation has earned Sentara Health System a place in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Lab information system is a lean, mean time-tracking machine. Reorganizing around a laboratory information system (LIS) allowed the primary care Chester County (SC) Hospital to develop a model of streamlined efficiency that ranks very favorably against peer benchmarks in terms of productivity and cost-efficiency. Key components are "auto-merge" and "auto-release" features that dramatically speed up lab test processing, but raised eyebrows among clinical lab staff.