HealthLeaders Media December 18, 2017
Healthcare financial leaders often lack a true understanding of the cost of care across service lines or populations. Focusing too much on clinical data from the medical record can lead to overlooking critical claims and demographic data.
Managing costs across populations and networks depends on constant and thorough data analysis, but CFOs and other hospital leaders often are working with incomplete data as they make critical decisions about resources and revenue.
Fifty-eight percent of healthcare leader respondents in the June 2017 HealthLeaders Media survey, Cost and Revenue Strategies, cited that the lack of data on the true cost of care was the biggest barrier to achieving sustainable cost reductions.
Data fragmentation will make it difficult for many healthcare organizations...