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Improving Financial Performance: A Tool for Managing Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Device Costs
	By Foster Ware - July 27, 2010 Device implants for cardiac rhythm management (CRM) are one of the few growth areas for inpatient cardiovascular services over the next decade. Sg2 has developed a CRM calculator as a tool to aid our hospital clients in their efforts to limit CRM dev ... Register or login to read more.
ABTF Highlight: A Comprehensive Program Reduces Environmental Transmission of C. Difficile
	By John Peabody, MD, PhD, FACP - July 26, 2010 This highlight from this year's ABTF meeting relates how one organization's focus on performance led to improved patient outcomes and financial savings by taking accountability—both clinically and financially—for stemming environmental transmission o ... Register or login to read more.
Reduce Length of Stay for Colorectal Cancer Surgery Patients
	By Trever Burgon, PhD - July 21, 2010 As hospitals see more surgical colorectal cancer over the next 10 years, 3 improvement strategies can help decrease length of stay: improve preoperative patient education, consider instituting a fast-track recovery surgical program, and leverage care ... Register or login to read more.
ABTF Highlight: Partnering With EMS Improves Door-to-Needle Time
	By Jayme Zage, PhD - July 20, 2010 Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center saw a clear need to accelerate its door-to-needle time for ischemic stroke patients to less than 90 minutes. Achieving a door-to-needle time of 60 minutes or less increases the number of patients who can ... Register or login to read more.
Joint Replacements Drive Demand for Inpatient Orthopedics—Are You Prepared?
	By Wade Johannessen, PhD - July 19, 2010 Demand for orthopedics will experience large growth in both the inpatient and outpatient settings over the next decade. Inpatient orthopedic demand will grow by 18%, while outpatient orthopedic demand (including procedures, office visits, imaging and ... Register or login to read more.
Sg2 Letter July 2010: Early Harbingers of the Reform Era
	By Michael Sachs - July 14, 2010 We are scarcely 3 months into the reform era of health care, but already there are early signs of how the reform decade of the 2010s will play out. This will be a replay to a certain extent of the 1990s, for those that remember that era. Quick fact— ... Register or login to read more.
ABTF Highlight: Innovative Cancer Screening Programs Promote and Increase Outreach
	By Lisa Slama, PhD - July 13, 2010 In oncology, one of the significant benefits of an effective System of CARE is enhanced access to cancer screening, which improves clinical outcomes and can drive downstream utilization of cancer services. Register or login to read more.
5 Strategies to Optimize Physician Relationships Across Your System of CARE
	By Jill Addy - July 8, 2010 The newly posted Optimizing Physician Relationships 2010 report provides insight into 5 key strategies that will carry organizations and physicians toward secure alignment strategies to best position them within high-performing Systems of CARE in the ... Register or login to read more.
Care Transition Coaches Enable Improved Performance
	By Cynthia Wallner, PhD - July 7, 2010 Improving clinical performance requires smooth care transitions from inpatient to post-acute settings. Quality and patient safety may be compromised during transitions due to medical/ medication errors, incomplete/inaccurate information transfer and ... Register or login to read more.
ABTF Highlight: Leading Practice for Reducing CHF Readmissions
	By Tyson Kuehl - July 6, 2010 MidState Medical Center analyzed its congestive heart failure (CHF) care. Despite having a CHF 30-day readmission rate close to the 75th percentile, the hospital wanted to reduce it. MidState identified 3 broad areas for performance improvement: pati ... Register or login to read more.
Largest Ever Nurses' Strike—A Call for Rethinking Care Delivery
	By Ashraf Fadel, RN - July 1, 2010 In early June, the largest nurses' strike in American history took place in Minnesota. It is important to look past the picket signs to gain insight into the performance issues that are at stake. Upon closer examination, what is revealed is a need to ... Register or login to read more.
ABTF Highlight: 5 Good Ideas for Smart Growth in the Reform Era
	By Bill Woodson - June 29, 2010 Much of the conversation about reform—including what you've heard from Sg2—has focused on the ways in which reform will drive us to reduce costs and improve clinical performance. But what about growth? Is there a formula for growth in the reform era ... Register or login to read more.
SoC Patient Engagement Strategy #4: Engaging the Complex Critical Patient Through Seamless Care
	By Jeffrey Moser - June 28, 2010 Over the past few weeks, we have suggested engagement strategies for each of Sg2’s 4 patient types. This week, we tackle—in my opinion—1 of the more difficult patient types to approach from an engagement perspective. How can organizations engage and ... Register or login to read more.
The Clinical Impact: Sg2's CMO Newsletter–The Hazards of Looking at Metrics in Isolation
	By John Peabody, MD, PhD, FACP - June 23, 2010 In May, we introduced you to the CMO newsletter—a new feature at Sg2 aimed at our CMOs and all those concerned with matching business effectiveness to the quality of our clinical performance. This issue, we are adding 2 new features to the newslette ... Register or login to read more.
Systems of CARE Themes Pervade ACOG Annual Meeting
	By Jeremy Miller, MD - June 22, 2010 New evidence on postpartum depression, same-day discharge for laparoscopic hysterectomy and the value of standardized approaches to obstetric emergency headlined last month's American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Meeting ... Register or login to read more.

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