Hospitals seeking to enhance healthcare quality and patient safety have adopted strategies like the 'Safety Huddle,' a collaborative session focusing on patient safety concerns. Evolving from this concept is the 'Readmission and Mortality Huddle,' an interdisciplinary team meeting specifically aimed at analyzing readmissions and mortalities. This focused approach is crucial in the light of Dexur's findings about the narrow scope for improvements in healthcare metrics. The goal of these huddles is to identify patterns, discern root causes, and devise prevention strategies, with frequent and concise meetings enabling prompt interventions and ongoing monitoring, marking a significant advancement in hospital management.

Infection Prevention teams in hospitals play a critical role in maintaining patient safety and healthcare quality. Their work, often seen through the lens of daily tasks and immediate outcomes, holds a far greater significance in the broader context of healthcare delivery and institutional reputation. To fully grasp the impact of their efforts, it's essential for these teams to understand the big picture, much like the famous story of a civil engineer who, when asked about their job, said they were not just building walls and roofs but a beautiful building. This narrative underscores the importance of seeing beyond the immediate task to appreciate the larger purpose and impact of one’s work.

Dexur had already previously published that the difference between the Bottom 10th & top 90th Performance Percentiles of CMS Readmission and Mortality Measures is Very Small. Dexur’s AI Advisor can automatically analyze a Hospital’s data and give very specific goals and counts on what it takes for Hospitals to get to the top 90th percentile. Dexur’s AI Advisor's findings suggest that for many hospitals, reducing readmissions and mortalities by less than 10 per year can significantly boost their percentile ranking. This revelation is crucial as it indicates that even minor improvements can lead to substantial gains in a hospital's performance metrics.

Hospital Incident Management Systems are widely adopted across healthcare organizations to capture, track, and manage events that could potentially harm patients, employees, or the institution. Although these systems play a crucial role in identifying and mitigating risk, they often function in isolation from Quality Management Systems. As a result, there's a missed opportunity to integrate quality goals and measures such as the CMS Star Rating, Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP), and Value-Based Purchasing (VBP).

In the healthcare industry, large organizations face significant challenges due to their size and complexity. Cross-departmental coordination is a critical requirement to mitigate risk, often leading to bureaucratic inertia. Large hospitals rely on massive, centralized systems designed for economies of scale, but these can be slow and costly to alter. When faced with problems, these institutions typically turn to technology as a solution, inflating capital expenditure (Capex) budgets and return on investment (ROI) benchmarks, thus creating barriers to change.

Rural hospitals are essential cornerstones of the communities they serve, yet they face unique challenges in assessing the quality of healthcare services they offer. One significant challenge arises from low patient volumes which, while potentially indicative of effective healthcare or healthier populations, can distort quality metrics. This distortion makes benchmarking performance against national standards a complex endeavor. Through the lens of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections, we can gain valuable insight into this issue.

Holistic Approach to Automated Assessments & Grading

Dexur’s platform takes a holistic approach to Employee Learning and Training, covering a wide range of topics from professional skills development to regulatory compliance. Our automated assessments and grading systems ensure that employees meet the standards set across different domains, from quality care measures to compliance with legal regulations like OSHA standards.

Automated Assessments & Grading in Quality Outcomes Education

Quality Outcomes Education is integral to improving performance in healthcare metrics. Dexur's platform automates assessments and grading within Quality Outcomes Education programs. This streamlines the process, linking it directly to important metrics like CMS Star Ratings, Leapfrog Scores, Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), Readmissions, and Mortality rates.

Automating Continuing Education Assessments & Grading

Continuing Education (CE) is critical not only for the professional growth of healthcare staff but also for quality outcomes. Dexur's platform automates the assessments and grading of Continuing Education programs, eliminating the manual bottlenecks. Automated assessments are synced with performance metrics like CMS Star Ratings, Leapfrog Scores, and Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) programs, enabling a seamless data-driven approach to education.

Traditional compliance reporting processes often suffer from delays and manual bottlenecks. Dexur’s platform revolutionizes this by offering real-time reporting features. Our system integrates seamlessly with your existing infrastructure, pulling data from various sources to populate compliance reports automatically. This ensures you always have the most current and comprehensive information at your fingertips.

Comprehensive Risk Analysis

Identifying compliance risks is the first step in mitigating them. Dexur's unified platform provides an all-encompassing risk assessment module, enabling you to pinpoint vulnerabilities across the organization. Our advanced analytics assess risk factors, both obvious and subtle, offering a complete view of your compliance landscape.

Optimize Policy Creation and Implementation

Creating and maintaining policies is a critical task that has a direct impact on an organization's quality and compliance. Dexur’s platform integrates seamlessly with your existing systems to create a unified solution. Utilize our platform to simplify the process of drafting, reviewing, and approving policies. Our intuitive workflow ensures that all team members are aligned, and policies are consistent across the board.

The Scope of Infrastructure Incidents

Incidents related to healthcare facility infrastructure, such as equipment malfunction, drug diversion, and utility failures, can have a cascading effect on patient safety and operational efficacy. Dexur’s unified platform serves as an integrated solution for monitoring, documenting, and resolving these incidents. Its robust analytics also allow for trend identification, providing a more strategic approach to incident management.

Employee Incidents: More than Just Numbers

Employee incidents, such as injuries, needle exposure, and workplace violence, have repercussions that extend beyond the affected individual. They influence the overall safety culture and employee satisfaction, which in turn, affects patient care quality. Dexur offers a comprehensive platform to not only document these incidents but also to analyze them in the context of broader hospital metrics.

Regulatory Compliance and Workforce Morale

Hospitals are battlegrounds for managing complex patient-related incidents, ranging from medication errors and adverse drug reactions to equipment malfunction and procedural complications. Traditional management systems often work in silos, making it challenging to have a unified view of these incidents and their impacts on quality outcomes.

Anthem Quality-In-Sights Hospital Incentive Program (QHIP) and CMS's Star Rating and Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) have designed several measurement programs with commendable intentions, the measures frequently result in hospitals addressing them in isolation, potentially due to varied reporting requirements and benchmarks. Herein lies the opportunity for creating a system that unites these common measures to optimize efforts, resources, and ultimately, patient care. Some common measures and thier groupings among Anthem QHIP, CMS Star Ratings and HRRP include:

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As part of educating, the quality community, Dexur is delighted to announce the release of a free poster, which meticulously consolidates all quality measures across various healthcare quality programs: CMS Star Rating, CMS Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), CMS Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP), CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), and the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.

Hospital quality teams aspire to formulate plans that exert Impact over CMS Star Ratings, necessitating both short-term and long-term strategies. A sustainable, long-term game plan would likely encompass comprehensive, AI-driven simulations to comprehend the most effective path toward an enhanced star rating. Nevertheless, hospitals might also encounter pressure to yield results in the short term.

Dexur specializes in helping healthcare professionals thrive in CMS Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Programs. With an array of solutions designed specifically for these programs, we have the tools you need to succeed.

In an era where healthcare benchmarks have grown paramount, hospitals are constantly under the lens of programs like Leapfrog and CMS Quality Programs. Aiming to optimize patient care, hospitals often find themselves amidst overlapping benchmarks, potentially navigating them in silos. This can lead to inefficiencies, duplications, and missed opportunities. Enter Dexur: Your partner in seamlessly aligning these objectives, making the journey to excellence both precise and holistic.