As another year ends, many healthcare magazines, websites and journals have an article or two on what the trends were over the past year. No surprise that business intelligence (BI) made it onto every list. There is no doubt that BI solutions and initiatives, which improve reporting and analytics, will empower healthcare organizations to provide […]
Priyal Patel
Priyal Patel is a healthcare industry expert, strategist and senior solutions architect for Perficient. With more than 10 years of healthcare industry experience, Priyal is a trusted advisor to C-level executives, senior managers and team members across clinical, business, and technology functions. Priyal has a proven track record of helping providers and health plans execute enterprise-level transformation to drive business, clinical, financial and operational efficiencies and outcomes.
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Hospital Discharge Planning-Is This Goodbye or See You Later?
In my last blog post, I discussed hospital readmissions and offered some solutions on how to prevent this growing problem within our health system. Of those solutions, I would like to take a closer look at hospital discharge planning and how this simple task in the transition of care can help alleviate the $12 billion […]
Simple Strategies to Prevent Hospital Readmissions
Hospital readmission is a growing problem within our health system. Many Medicare patients discharged from an inpatient stay find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days1. Jenny Minott, from Academy Health, states that “some of these readmissions are planned, and others may be part of the natural course of treatment for specific conditions; but, […]
Value Based Purchasing 101
Ah, October. What is not to like? The nice brisk autumn air, pumpkins everywhere and Halloween to give us a scare (yup, I’m also a poet!!). But this October we have yet another thing to look forward to. This October, Medicare will begin to reward hospitals that provide high quality care for their patients through […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 4
Through this blog series, I have introduced the basic purpose and goals of the process improvement methodology known as Lean Healthcare. We took a look at Lean’s 5 basic principles and its 7 deadly wastes in an effort to help readers begin to understand the key concepts and tools of Lean thinking and how it […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 3
In my last blog post, we took a deeper dive into understanding the 5 Basic Lean Principles of the Lean Methodology and how incorporating these principles can help healthcare organizations achieve smooth process flows, while concentrating only on those activities that add value and eliminate activities or “waste” that do not provide any value. In […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 2
In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Lean Methodology for Healthcare and provided readers with the basic overview to its purpose, goals and basic principles. To quickly refresh your memories, the overall purpose and goal of Lean thinking, simply stated, is to eliminate unnecessary waste to drive value. In order to achieve […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 1
This blog will be the first in my Lean Healthcare series. In this first blog, we will keep it short and sweet. I will provide you with the basic premise of the lean methodology, present the goals of lean, provide you with the 5 basic principles and explain why lean applies to healthcare and a […]
Clinical Intelligence: A Key to Quality Care
The biggest challenge in today’s healthcare environment is the use of clinical data. Everybody knows that the healthcare industry is “behind the times” compared to other industries when it comes to using data to drive meaningful outcomes, largely due to the complexity of healthcare data. However, with rising costs, constant regulatory changes, and ever-increasing competition, […]
EHRs + Clinical Decision Support = Better Healthcare
We all know that the healthcare delivery system in the United States is decentralized. Patient information is in multiple sources and often times not even accurate or complete. This fragmented system leads to large gaps in care, contributing to poor quality, patient safety issues and increased costs. A nationwide audit assessing 439 quality indicators found […]
Clinical Documentation – The Make or Break Component of ICD-10
Does the mere mention of “ICD-10” bring on an anxiety attack of some sort? For the majority, the answer is yes! This is probably because, like numerous organizations, you still haven’t begun the necessary planning for the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Hospital administrators, physicians and medical coders are dropping to their knees and praying […]
Enhance your Patient-Physician Relationship with a Patient Portal
Another Valentine’s Day just passed and I couldn’t help but recall all the movies, shows and interviews that were on television talking repeatedly about how the most important thing for a strong, long lasting, trusting relationship is good communication. Sure, this is no big secret, but it got me thinking about how true this is, […]