Clinical Integration

The Situation

Healthcare systems today often struggle to align organizational goals with physician performance measures and patient care outcomes. Current healthcare trends call for tightly aligned or integrated relationships with medical staff providers in order to meet demands for price, quality, and efficiency from payers. Many hospital executives and physicians have realized that an integrated delivery system will help their organization deal with external pressures and meet increasing demands for high-quality and cost-effective patient care. However, executives find it challenging, if not impossible, to effectively manage an integrated delivery system when the information needed to do so is scattered throughout a variety of operational, practice management and patient care systems.

What is Needed Now?

The need for greater collaboration among healthcare providers has never been more compelling. The ability to measure quality and efficiency across all service lines and down to the individual provider is the only way to determine how or where improvements can be gained. This requires the following:

• Clinical, financial and operational data from disparate systems must be brought together.
• Unhealthy and wasteful fragmentation of care practices must be identified and addressed.
• Performance metrics across the network must be defined, agreed upon, and supported.
• Assessment of care practices and coordination of care must be ongoing.

The WhiteCloud Solution

WhiteCloud Clinical Integration solutions can help you align your data integration needs with your performance management goals, by integrating pertinent data from disparate operational and practice management systems into a single analytical application. Based on the WhiteCloud Performance Analytics™ methodology, our solutions provide the relevant context, visibility, and knowledge needed to surface quality performance issues and wasteful resource utilization. We also provide visibility to patient care and services across the care continuum, with insight into points of responsibility – enhancing your ability to improve clinical performance.

Clinical integration strategies must incorporate a performance management approach due to increased pressures to increase quality, reduce waste and control costs. Our solution facilitates this approach by surfacing key performance issues within the core clinical processes that result in poor quality outcomes and inefficient resource utilization.

The Result: Greater Collaboration Among Healthcare Providers

Our clinical integration solution will serve as the catalyst to help ensure more coordinated healthcare services resulting in improved quality and consistency of care, reduced waste, and faster discovery of inefficient care practices. Our application provides a high level of automation, superior visualization and improved outcomes (with clinical practice, resource utilization, and cost analysis) by ensuring appropriate assessment of care delivery across the network and among all providers.

• Improved focus on what needs immediate attention to provide higher quality care and reduce overall costs.
• Better capability to assess patient care and resource utilization across the network, for hospital-based care as well as ambulatory settings.
• Ability to aggregate data from disparate clinical, financial, and operational data systems – putting an end to silos of information and pockets of analysis.
• Improved ability to evaluate and monitor patient care costs, efficient use of resources, and quality outcomes.