Healthcare IT News March 25, 2025
The 13-hospital network’s CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.
In medicine, the greatest challenges often emerge not from what healthcare organizations fail to do, but from the variations in how they do it. At MultiCare Health System, a 13-hospital network spanning the Pacific Northwest, this manifested in the variations of clinical resource utilization across its facilities.
THE CHALLENGE
The data told a compelling story. When comparing hospital costs against other multi-hospital health systems in the Northwest with comparable case mix...