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Reducing unwarranted variation in clinical care

Clinical variation is a major driver of the long term cost pressures facing healthcare providers. Unwarranted differences in care delivery manifest in high resource consumption, reduced access to care, rising costs, and poor outcomes.

Hospital leadership and managers need information to understand where, when, why, and how clinically wasteful variation occurs in order to manage the high cost of chronic disease while improving overall patient care.

The Clinical Transformation Solutions practice from GE Healthcare Performance Solutions is dedicated to helping healthcare providers build a transformational organization, design transformational healthcare delivery, and deploy the transformative information infrastructure to reduce unwarranted variation and sustain those improvements.

Our approach helps healthcare organizations to better:

• Identify root causes of unwarranted clinical variation and quantify their impact, clinically and financially

• Empower end users with immediate access to the information they need for data-driven decisions

• Visualize key metrics and apply information to improve outcomes

• Implement enhanced healthcare delivery processes, across the care continuum, for populations and providers

• Get greater value from existing IT investment by enabling scalable, continuous healthcare delivery improvements

Are you concerned about …

Improving outcomes and addressing cost growth?

Identifying patient populations with high rates of variation and resource consumption?

Reducing preventable readmissions?

Managing patients across multiple care settings?

Clinical Transformation Solutions can help.

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“We are not getting the value we should from our IT investments and our clinicians see HIT as a one-way street—they enter data but get nothing back.”

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Insight to action

Our team brings together multi-disciplinary capabilities to help your organization transform your care delivery models:

Healthcare analysts apply powerful analytics to your existing clinical data to build operational decision-making models that operate in near-real time.

Clinician consultants share expertise and methodologies from across our global team to help you improve clinical workflow and collaborations.

Performance improvement experts deploy proven GE change acceleration methods to identify root causes of variation, engage clinicians, and sustain improvements.

A scalable model for transforming healthcare delivery

Clinical Transformation Solutions utilizes a proven methodology to help healthcare organizations develop, disseminate, and sustain new processes:

1. Build the Transformation Organization—Using our resources, you can design and develop an organization that supports decision-making, implementation of clinical improvements, and scalability across the enterprise. Our approach focuses on governance models, clinical integration, and execution rigor to accelerate and sustain progress.

2. Design Transformational Healthcare Delivery—Our experts work collaboratively with your organization to focus on care areas that drive clinically wasteful

resource consumption, avoidable readmissions, patient dissatisfaction, and increased costs such as heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and diabetes. Our team works with you to redesign healthcare delivery processes to advance evidence-informed care. Care delivery models and process improvement methods are deployed to rapidly pilot and deploy the recommended changes.

3. Deploy the Transformative Information Infrastructure—Our healthcare analysts help bring clarity and insights. Using clinical data, we build, leverage existing technology to visualize care pathways, and monitor variation that is not captured by claims data. What emerges is a repeatable model for transforming and managing healthcare delivery processes that can be adapted as the evidence-informed data evolves. With appropriate time visualization of data and robust reporting mechanisms, quality and cost outcomes are easily monitored.

Clinical Transformation Solutions unlocks clinical data to accelerate changes in healthcare delivery.

For more than 10 years, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions has worked side by side with healthcare organizations to improve quality, access, and reduce costs. To learn how we can assist your organization in achieving its clinical and financial goals, talk to your GE Healthcare representative.

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