Integrated Analytics Shows True Cost of Patient Care
Integrated Analytics Shows True Cost of Patient Care
5 PagesCopyright © 2019 Health Catalyst 1 Success Story Integrated Analytics Shows True Cost of Patient Care EXECUTIVE SUMMARY U.S. healthcare spending is on the rise. Part of the problem contributing to increased healthcare costs is the lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care. Academic health system Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH), based in Lebanon, NH, wanted to reduce unwarranted variation and reduce costs, but to do so, it needed timelier access to data and a solution that didn’t require one person performing hundreds of hours of manual labor. To gain more efficient access to data that could reduce unwarranted variation and reduce costs, D-HH leveraged a data platform to automate analysis of its financial data. With automation, D-HH achieved the followi
