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    PerformanceBridge Practice


    Driving continuous performance improvement in imaging, through tailored assessments, targeted recommendations and ongoing monitoring and partnership with you

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    Data and expertise tailored to deliver results

    Part of Philips PerformanceBridge – a flexible suite of continuous improvement solutions – PerformanceBridge Practice is an innovative offering designed to make your performance, utilization and workflow data perform for you in ways that will drive improvement and deliver measurable outcomes.

     
    We partner with you to help unify deep levels of data and unlock actionable information to enhance operational and clinical decision making that’s centered around the patient. In addition to comprehensive, customized Assessments to understand and baseline your performance, we collaborate with you to develop tailored solutions that enable you to:
     
     
    •  Address performance gaps
    •  Monitor progress ongoing
    •  Create value and drive sustainable change in imaging

     

    Together, we can help drive continuous improvement at the imaging department and enterprise levels.

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    What does this mean?

    Philips has recently acquired U.S.-based start-up, Analytical Informatics, Inc., whose advanced workflow tools and applications will help strengthen our PerformanceBridge Practice offerings. We’re currently working on fully integrating their capabilities with ours, and look forward to being able to provide our customers with even more solutions that can help them maximize opportunities to do more with less, while delivering patient-centric care.

    For more about the acquisition, please read the press release here.

    Our approach

    Because we care about your success, our approach is designed to align with your goals. Leveraging our integrated suite of digital health technology capabilities and breadth of experience, we gain deep insights into your specific challenges and create actionable recommendations for a path toward improvement.


    Together, we uncover your specific challenges, help you prioritize opportunities and navigate the transition to a model of delivering care that’s focused on outcomes, value and the patient.

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    Diving deep into your data and organization to:

    • Baseline equipment and staff utilization and efficiency
    • Identify root cause analyses for performance gaps
    • Gain visibility to market share and referral network leakage

    Co-create solutions

    Working together to:


    • Set unique people and performance results goals
    • Build technology management plans based on customer IB and referral network
    • Create targeted recommendations that drive performance and cost savings

    Drive outcomes

    Partnering over the long term to:


    • Monitor performance and reporting
    • Drive improvements in equipment utilization
    • Identify staff training needs
    • Determine potential ROI for each project

    A tailored offering based on your needs


    PerformanceBridge Practice offers a tailored combination of technology and professional services to meet your needs and drive sustained improvement throughout your organization.

    Utilization review

    Review of efficiency, modality and staff utilization at modality and department level

    Network and market analysis

    Analysis of referral network, inclusive of market share and exam volumes, in Primary Service
    + analyses by individual room, machine and technologist productivity, with root cause analysis
    + measured by physician and patient leakage, as well as network segmentation

    Growth plan

    Development of basic market growth and technology management plan, based on installed base and equipment age

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    Identification of value drivers and cost savings associated with performance recommendations
     
    + estimated outpatient, primary and secondary service areas, projected growth in imaging services by modality, and predictive analysis of patient and procedure volumes
    + and efficiency improvements, as well as revenue enhancements from new patient growth and reduced leakage

    Solution Advisor

    Support from a dedicated Solution Advisor who collaborates with you to enable continuous improvement and drive business impact of performance improvement projects

    Practice management tool

    Access to our practice management tool, providing vendor-agnostic analysis with tailored dashboards, scheduled template reports, notifications and drill-downs for root cause and gap analyses

    Structured to adapt and scale to your needs

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    PerformanceBridge Practice Services
    Assessements
    Subscription
    Engagement level
    One-time analysis, plus detailed recommendations (4-6 weeks, typically)
    Ongoing integrated engagement with dedicated Solution Advisor
    Utilization review
    Network and market analysis
    Growth plan
     ROI calculator
    Practice management tool
    As needed*
    Solution advisor
    As needed*

    Get insights optimized for action

    A configured dashboard gives you an objective view of your performance, reflecting your custom metrics and systems. Based on your goals, your custom reports may include:
    • Near real-time procedural analysis
    • Operational performance
    • Patient and procedural workflow analysis
    • Data mining by DICOM fields
    • Data anonymized for research analysis
    • Imaging volumes by procedure code
    • Imaging analysis capabilities on a daily and monthly basis

    A look inside our practice management tool

    PerformanceBridge Practice

    in action

    Per capita cost reduction

    Challenge

    Highly variable imaging exams make optimal scheduling problematic and longer exams drive up operational costs.

    Method

    Identified target protocols by looking at volume and durations, and utilized machine log files to obtain accurate information.

    Impact*

    • Reduction in time-per-exam of ~20%.
    • Created tools to integrate changes into standard way of working.

    *Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions.”
     

    Establishing data confidence

    Challenge

    Imaging departments have a wealth of data sources, yet each gives differing views; this makes it difficult to derive meaningful information without establishing a ground truth and data consistency.

    Method

    Deployed a network listener to capture HL7 and DICOM. Aggregated and reconciled data from RIS, PACS, EMR, and workflow engine with triangulated output.

    Impact

    Identified and addressed root causes for data discrepancies; established

    meaningful metrics for specific departmental performance indicators. Streamlined reporting approach across managers and reduced reporting time.
     


    *Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.”
     

    Accommodating higher patient case complexity through optimizing resources

    Challenge

    A hospital’s Interventional Radiology (IR) service line was caring for more severely ill patients and performing more complex procedures, changing the way IR staff organized and conducted work

    Method

    Assessed current state of the IR service line and the resources required to meet patient needs, by combining data from hospital billing with RIS data to compute a department level Case Mix Index (CMI)

    Impact

    • Created a more transparent representation of the IR service line to enable appropriate resource allocation
    • Confirmed Radiology’s average and IR section CMIs (2.83 & 1.93 respectively) were higher than the average hospital CMI of 1.81
       

    *Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.”
     

    Reducing turnaround times

    Challenge

    Lengthy order to complete turnaround times (TATs) and ineffective processes and professional staffing were causing operational inefficiencies and significant delays in the imaging department (e.g., >70 minutes for contrast CT, >80 minutes for MR with contrast)

    Method

    Identified target protocols by looking at patient volume and durations, and performed a deep-dive root cause analysis into the source of delays.

    Impact

    • Restructured procedures to minimize and avoid delays
    • Identified three top reasons for subpar TAT performance: long delays in lab results, IV starts and Reading TATs

    *Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.”
     

    Right-sizing for current demand and future growth, challenging the 1-1 replacement mindset

    Challenge

    With an upward trend in patient volume and an aging technology fleet, an imaging department needed to ensure it was right-sized for current and future demand

    Method

    Benchmarked current patient volumes, studied current equipment and utilization, and mapped utilization against efficiency benchmarks. Also analyzed referral network and market growth rate

    Impact

    • Coupled utilization and age of technology data to create a plan to achieve optimal equipment use and address updates to the aging technology fleet, without using a 1:1 replacement mindset
    • Potential savings of $1.5M in over 10 years

    *Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.”
     

    Resources

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    Data-driven decision making focused on the patient experience

     

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    Case study

     

    Radiology services in a value-based industry

     

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