GE Healthcare Performance Solutions Introduces New Offering to Reduce Unwarranted Clinical Variation in Hospitals
Las Vegas—GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, a unit of GE Healthcare, introduced its Clinical Transformation Solutions practice, aimed at reducing unwarranted clinical variation in healthcare delivery. The U.S. healthcare industry is under unprecedented pressure to both reduce costs and improve quality, with health care reform forcing organizations to integrate and transform the way healthcare is delivered. GE’s new offering will assist healthcare organizations in designing and implementing new integrated models to ensure clinically wasteful variation is reduced and avoidable (re)admissions are minimized.
Although healthcare organizations collect vast amounts of clinical and financial data, many face significant challenges in connecting this data to identify areas for improvement and deploying new integrated workflows to support new care processes. With this offering, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions will use its own transformation methodologies and expertise to accelerate the change process and ensure sustainability of benefits. Performance Solutions will work with technology partners including the recently-announced GE Healthcare and Microsoft joint venture, Caradigm (when it launches) to deliver clinical analytics, integrated workflow and patient engagement capabilities.
“Success will require more than leading technology alone,” said Peter Kinhan, Managing Principal, Clinical Transformation Solutions, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions. “Clinical analytics, integrated workflow and patient engagement technologies will be essential enablers for change. Our Clinical Transformation solutions will help organizations design and build effective governance and clinical integration models combined with execution rigor to accelerate the change process.”
For more than 10 years, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions has worked side by side with healthcare organizations to improve care delivery. The Clinical Transformation Solutions practice aims to sustainably address unwarranted clinical variation by working with key stakeholders to blend externally recognized guidelines with each organization’s internal standards and better align processes to help ensure that patients receive the care recommended to them. Specifically, the solution aims to look at high volume, high variance care areas like heart failure and diabetes.
“In today’s hospitals, clinical variation is of particular concern — especially as it relates to chronic conditions such as diabetes and congestive heart failure,” said Rich Miller, president and CEO of Virtua. “Such variation can result in excess length of stay, frequent ER admissions and inpatient re-admissions which can be extremely costly. We see a significant benefit to addressing unwarranted clinical variation across the continuum of care. By better analyzing existing data, hospitals can streamline daily operations and develop clinical pathways that provide the appropriate service to the patient at the appropriate time more efficiently.”
To learn more regarding Performance Solutions’ Clinical Transformation Solutions practice, visit the Performance Solutions website.
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