$17.4M Saved Through Analytics-Driven Patient Blood Management Improvements
$17.4M Saved Through Analytics-Driven Patient Blood Management Improvements
7 PagesCopyright © 2019 Health Catalyst 1 HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION Integrated Delivery System PRODUCTS Success Story $17.4M Saved Through Analytics-Driven Patient Blood Management Improvements EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UnityPoint Health recognized that more than 10 percent of its inpatients received red blood cell (RBC) transfusions annually, at the expense of more than $12 million each year. The organization created a task force to develop and implement a plan for maximizing blood management, plus establishing best practices. To support this initiative, the task force incorporated decision support to improve transfusion ordering in alignment with the transfusion standards. An analytics platform has also been leveraged, which monitors the utilization of blood products, including predictive mod
