Case Study
Quinte Uses Benchmark Analytics to Reduce Costs and Improve
TIBCO Success Story: Quinte For decades, health plans routinely paid for treatments and procedures without excessive scrutiny. However, Ontario’s new healthcare funding approach, Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), provides the government with an evidence- based method for distributing funds. Every year, healthcare takes a more significant portion of the tax base, so the Canadian government seeks to mitigate the variation in care and outcomes across the country’s hospitals. Because patients quickly released from hospitals recover faster, funds are shifting from hospitals to home care. Challenge The result of these funding trends was that QHC no longer received a predictable amount of money from the government. Sixty percent of its funding is now based on demographics, referral