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3 actionable steps to turn healthcare data into action

By Cristina Calabrese, Content Producer at Arcadia
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Value-Based Care Healthcare Analytics Care Management

Healthcare organizations are drowning in data but starving for insights. Fragmented systems, outdated benchmarks, and complex reporting processes make it difficult to act on critical information. How can healthcare leaders overcome these challenges to drive better decision-making?

In a recent webinar, industry experts shared three proven strategies to harness real-time analytics for operational and financial success. Here’s what you need to know.

Enhance healthcare operations with data-driven insights

Healthcare organizations often struggle with disconnected data systems that hinder timely decision-making. Without a clear, consolidated view, teams waste valuable time piecing together reports instead of focusing on patient care and operational improvements. By integrating real-time analytics, organizations can gain a holistic understanding of their performance, identify inefficiencies, and act quickly to optimize workflows.

Key ways to leverage data-driven insights include:

  • Healthcare dashboards: Equip teams with interactive analytics to track key performance indicators and improve operational efficiency.
  • Custom reports: Empower users to build personalized dashboards and generate insightful reports tailored to their unique goals.
  • Data queries: Enable technical teams to consolidate and analyze multiple data sources for deeper insights into performance trends.

By taking control of their data through these capabilities, organizations can make evidence-based decisions that improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and streamline operations.

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Benchmark performance for a competitive edge

Healthcare leaders need to understand how their organization performs relative to industry standards. Without accurate benchmarks, it’s difficult to identify areas for growth, address inefficiencies, and measure success. By leveraging real-time benchmarks based on national datasets, organizations can compare their financial, clinical, and operational performance against peers.

This enables them to adjust strategies proactively, align with industry best practices, and improve resource allocation. Up-to-date benchmarking insights ensure leaders make informed, data-driven decisions that enhance their competitive advantage in an evolving healthcare landscape.

Enhanced Benchmarks uses data from a variety of sources, including:

  • 100% Medicare FFS claims
  • Commercial claims
  • Medicaid claims

This offers benchmarks on risk adjustment, quality metrics, and cost utilization across more than 300 episodes of care. This robust data foundation ensures that benchmarks are never more than 90 days old and national sources are updated quarterly. The tool also enables physician and group-level drill-downs on national datasets, making it highly actionable and relevant for organizations aiming to navigate competitive healthcare markets intelligently.

Automate data distribution to engage stakeholders

Manually compiling and distributing reports consumes time and resources, leading to delays in stakeholder engagement. Decision-makers need timely, relevant insights without having to navigate complex analytics tools. Automating data distribution ensures that the right information reaches the right people at the right time. By delivering customized performance reports directly to stakeholders’ inboxes, organizations can keep leadership, providers, and operational teams aligned with key performance goals. Streamlining this process reduces administrative burden and empowers decision-makers to take action based on real-time data, improving overall efficiency and accountability.

Vista Push can be configured to distribute various types of reports, including performance scorecards and operational analytics, using a straightforward and intuitive interface. The tool supports creating and sending pixel-perfect reports, which can be customized by adding logos and altering the layout to meet the specific branding needs of an organization. This customization extends to the distribution mechanism as well, where reports can be sent based on predefined schedules or triggered by specific events, ensuring that the right data reaches the right people at the right time.

Ready to leverage data for better decisions?

Healthcare organizations that embrace real-time analytics, benchmarking, and automated reporting gain a significant advantage in efficiency, revenue growth, and patient outcomes.

Want to see how these solutions can work for your organization?