Case Studies

Projects commonly address important Strategic issues focusing one or more of the following Operational aspects:

Case studies by topic

Deploying Performance Measures: a "Heat Map"
Image Illustrates Volatility of Implementations that use Performance Measurement Results

Rating Episode Grouper Output
Creative Statistical Inference Builds Consensus for Clinical Improvement Efforts

Physician Recognition Program
Clinicians with "Efficient Quality" Practices Acknowledged

Quality and Efficiency Measurement
Thousands of Clinicians Evaluated for both Quality and Efficiency in Seminal Study

Quality and Efficiency Measurement II
Professional Quality and Efficiency Study Revisited

Attributing Episodes to Physicians
Preponderance of Episodes Found to Involve Only One Clinician

Episode-of-Care Reporting
Episode-of-Care Metrics Evaluated for Care Variance Reporting

Risk-Sharing Simulation
Parsing the Premium Dollar: Computer Simulation Assists Doctor-Hospital Talks

Enterprise Valuation
Uncertainty is Quantified in Study of Organization's Merger Value

Capacity Optimization
Balancing Service Improvement Against the Costs of Added Capacity

Education and Training
Crash Course Helps Managers Adapt to Capitated Environment

Multi-Specialty Right-Sizing
Patient Demand + Physician Productivity = Multi-Specialty Practice Design

Clinically-Driven Bidding
Avoiding the "Winner's Curse": Knowing Cost of Recommended Care Shapes Contract Bids

Fee Schedule Optimization
Fees Changed to Enhance Collections, Improve Internal Consistency

Whole-Patient Cost Accounting
In the Hospital or at the Clinic, Patient's Total Cost of Care is Known