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CHF disease management program slashes LOS, costs with innovative tracking, analysis
Data Strategies & Benchmarks : the Monthly Advisory for Health Care Executives
|May 27, 1999
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This disease management program tracks congestive heart failure (CHF) patients across inpatient, outpatient, and home care settings. It uses data manipulation to ensure efficient patient tracking and appropriate resource allocation.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Cardiology
- Health Informatics
Background:
- Congestive heart failure (CHF) patient care requires seamless transitions across various healthcare settings.
- Effective disease management programs are crucial for optimizing patient outcomes and resource utilization in CHF care.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe a provider-driven disease management program for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients.
- To illustrate how data manipulation facilitates efficient patient tracking and resource allocation in a continuum of care model.
Main Methods:
- Implementation of a provider-driven disease management program for CHF patients.
- Utilizing data manipulation techniques to track patients across inpatient, outpatient, and home care.
- Focusing on efficient patient monitoring and appropriate resource allocation.
Main Results:
- The program successfully integrates care across different healthcare settings.
- Data manipulation enables efficient tracking of CHF patients.
- Resources are utilized more appropriately through effective program management.
Conclusions:
- Provider-driven disease management programs can effectively manage CHF patients across the care continuum.
- Strategic data manipulation is key to successful continuum of care models.
- This approach optimizes patient management and resource allocation in CHF care.
Abstract:
Tracking care across the continuum for congestive heart failure patients: Evanston/Northwestern Healthcare's provider-driven disease management program for CHF patients crosses the boundaries of inpatient, outpatient, and home care. But that requires the savvy manipulation of data to ensure patients are tracked efficiently and resources are used appropriately. Here's how the program works.