Unifying disparate data under a single dashboard
System leaders at Novant Health needed to align data across their system’s 15 medical centers using the Vizient® Clinical Data Base (CDB).
After implementing the CDB, system leaders could better assess the performance of individual facilities and compare themselves against peer hospitals. With these insights, leaders could standardize the onboarding process and better plan for quality improvement initiatives systemwide.
Insights that drive local ownership to reach improvement goals
Using the CDB platform’s peer-to-peer comparison tools led to discovering improvement opportunities to reduce patient mortality and hypoglycemic events. Clinical leaders reviewed current protocols and created documentation that drove improvements to care quality.
It’s been a long three years, and despite that, Vizient and its tools have helped us get to a better place.
Visualize performance with the Quality & Accountability scorecard
To help measure the individual perform of its facilities year over year, system leaders used the Vizient Quality & Accountability (Q&A) scorecard to rank themselves on a quarterly basis against peer facilities. Novant Health’s clinical data team used this data to create leading indicators and a month-to-month visual analysis to making day to day decisions. Each week, a team of clinical support executives reviews the CDB dashboard to identify barriers to providing better care and set priorities for each facility, as well as works with systems teams to prioritize systemwide problems areas, such as sepsis, length of stay and congestive heart failure. Read the whitepaper to see common traits among top performers in the Q&A scorecard.
Improving your hospital profile with national quality scorecards
High reliability is mostly thought of in terms of quality and safety, although operational, financial outcomes and experiences must also be reliable. The imperative to have dependable, reliable performance increases as organizations assume more financial risk. Read the blog to learn more.
Applying process enhancements to newly acquired facilities
Novant Health plans to continue on process enhancement journey by applying lessons learned to its newest acquisition, Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center. The visualization data work done by Novant Health was one of the main things that attracted New Hanover Regional Medical Center to the health system.
Achieving high reliability
On this podcast, Marcia Baker, MSN, DHA, RN, CPPS, and Sandy Cox, RN, BSN, CIC, share about the efforts across Novant Health to engage team members to uncover issues, fix the problem and bring high reliability and safety to patient care.
Want to know the top performers in healthcare?
The Vizient Quality and Accountability Rankings recognize top performing organizations that deliver superior patient care and have excellent supply chain operations.
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