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Outcomes in Healthcare Excellence
Fall 2008
In this Issue:
Integrated Performance Improvement with Sunrise EPSi
This story provides an introductory overview of our award-winning Sunrise EPSi™ solutions. With Sunrise EPSi Integrated Performance Improvement™ solutions, senior leadership to departmental managers have easy access to actionable data that helps them better run their business. Eclipsys IPI solutions go beyond conventional decision support to provide the comprehensive analytics support enterprises need to take full control of their performance.
Read how Memorial Herman Healthcare System (Houston, TX) is improving quality and revenue using Sunrise EPSi. Sustainable outcomes improvements include cumulative improvements and savings of more than $50 million annually — representing 2.5% of the bottom line!
Strong Partnership Returns Rev Cycle Improvements at Kaleida Health
A strong partnership between IT and revenue cycle departments at Buffalo, NY-based Kaleida Health turned actions into outcomes with Eclipsys Revenue Cycle Solutions. The health system replaced outdated legacy financial systems and streamlined the revenue cycle process across its five hospitals, increasing cash collections over $70 million in one year, decreasing Accounts Receivable over 90 days by 32% and increasing point-of-service collections 36%.
Quality Outcomes: Addressing Industry Issues Head-on
The Eclipsys Quality Outcomes Team, led by Diane Gilbert Bradley, MD, vice president of Quality Outcomes, works with clients across the healthcare spectrum to evaluate and share best practices back to the Eclipsys client base. Read how clinical and financial Outcomes Toolkits are helping clients address today’s most challenging industry issues head-on!
In Quest for Quality, Healthcare Intelligence Leverages Clinical Data
Sunrise Clinical Analytics™ helps clients to mine and more-fully leverage clinical data from the thousands of care encounters documented in Sunrise Clinical Manager™. To help meet the call for increasing transparency in healthcare, Sunrise Clinical Analytics empowers organizations to drill down into complex and expansive inpatient operations, determine where opportunities exist for improvement and further implement best practices.
Achieving Measurable Improvements across an Enterprise: Springhill Medical Center
Mobile, AL-based Springhill Medical Center outsourced its IT operations to Eclipsys and chose the company for its enterprise clinical and revenue cycle solutions. Within four months of outsourcing IT to Eclipsys, Springhill recorded a 13-percent decrease in accounts receivable due to the elimination of unplanned downtime and improved processes. With Eclipsys integrated clinical and financial solutions, Springhill has seen measurable improvements in the form of reduced errors, better efficiencies, higher patient satisfaction, faster throughput and fewer duplicate tests. The result? Increased agility in a changing world.
Orchestrating Success in a High-demand Environment
Sunrise Demand Manager™ and Sunrise Staff Manager™, powered by AtStaff, help healthcare providers anticipate and manage their high-demand environment in two important ways: by predicting supply and demand; and by managing patient flow across the healthcare system. University of Kentucky HealthCare (Lexington, KY) has added these solutions to complement its already successful use of Sunrise Clinical Manager.
Client Connectivity: The New Eclipsys ClientConnect Program
This two-part article featured on the back cover of the magazine describes the ways clients can participate in the new Eclipsys ClientConnect™ program — advise, enhance and share — and gives a sneak peak at highlights of the program at EUN and the upcoming release of Eclipsys Communities.
