New Care Process Models to Benefit Health Systems Nationwide
- Emphasis on driving meaningful, measurable outcomes for the next
decade that are scalable nationwide
- Mission targeting $40 million in direct, operational savings
through focus on optimizing radiology, streamlining biomedical
services and replacing monitoring and telemetry equipment system-wide
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- (Business Wire)
Today, Mission Health and GE Healthcare announced a novel, 10-year
outcomes-based agreement that will help drive significant value for
patients, Mission Health, GE and health systems nationwide. As a
non-academic, regional integrated health system that includes a 730 bed,
high-volume, high-acuity tertiary-quaternary hospital, Mission is
looking to balance clinical quality with significant cost savings and
efficiency across their system — the same challenge facing nearly all
healthcare systems nationwide.
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“This is an innovative, collaborative, outcomes-driven relationship
focused on developing new, transformational ways of caring for patients
at Mission Health and nationwide,” said Ronald A. Paulus, MD,
President and CEO, Mission Health. “The challenges we face at
Mission are like so many health systems across the nation. Our goal is
to improve our margin, drive system-wide efficiency and deliver an
exceptional, transparent experience for every patient, family and team
member. The solutions that we develop and cost savings we achieve with
GE will be scalable and applicable to other similar healthcare systems.
This is truly exciting for Mission and the industry.”
“To make this level of partnership possible, it takes two organizations
to think both differently and collaboratively,” said John Flannery,
President and CEO, GE Healthcare. “We are honored to work with
Mission Health and strongly believe that this strategic, outcomes-based
agreement will ensure alignment and focus on shared priorities. We are
passionate about delivering on our commitment while helping to enhance
clinical quality, patient experience and operational efficiency.”
Mission Health and GE Healthcare will work in partnership to solve the
system’s most complex challenges delivering over $40 million in savings
for Mission Health over the course of the relationship:
- First of a Kind, Co-created Innovation Collaboration: Mission
Health and GE Healthcare will co-develop, pilot and deploy
transformational healthcare solutions focused initially on two areas:
optimizing imaging experience and utilization and smoothing patient
care transitions.
- Imaging: The focus will be on supporting a patient’s
ability to make informed choices based upon key variables such as
comparative costs and wait times while providing rapid results.
From the provider perspective, the focus will be on streamlining
the complex process of getting patients to the right imaging
modality, at the right time, in the right place across the system
while balancing capacity and availability.
- Care Transitions: The approach will leverage predictive
modelling and other analytics to ensure that the patient receives
the right care in the right setting with the right technology to
maximize patient outcomes, experience and minimize costs.
By leveraging GE’s deep technology, consulting, software, IT and
workflow expertise and Mission’s in-depth clinical experience and
“real world learning laboratory”, Mission and GE Healthcare will
help shape the next generation of technology, tools, and processes
to support healthcare’s transformation. This is less about one
product or capability and more broadly aligned around how technology
and services can work together to deliver outcomes for patients.
Many of the findings and solutions developed through this
collaboration can be transferred and used by systems nationwide.1
- Key areas of operational focus within mission health include:
- Radiology Optimization: Imaging is a core component of many
service lines and care plans – yet in most organizations it is
optimized or structured to function as a central backbone of care
delivery. A systematic focus on imaging/radiology drives
system-wide efficiency by improving speed to diagnosis, increasing
asset utilization, reducing un-necessary retakes, reducing overall
care costs and reducing waiting time for patients and clinicians
system-wide. As care shifts to a value-based model, radiology must
transform from a simple revenue or cost center to one that
actively supports risk-based care models and helps Mission achieve
its goal of providing same day, cost-effective care.
- System-wide Bedside Monitoring Transformation: Mission
Health is replacing its bedside monitoring and telemetry at all
seven facilities to support rapidly increasing inpatient acuity,
reduce internal and cross-facility transfers and provide seamless
care regardless of site. The new monitoring platform will ensure
that all equipment is interconnected and that data is readily
available to the clinician in the moments that matter most. By
providing immediate access to critical data, especially in areas
like the emergency department, caregivers can improve patient
safety and speed to diagnosis and reduce patient wait times,
reduce false positive and optimize patient placement keeping
patients close to home as much as possible.
- Radiology and Biomedical Services with Asset Optimization: GE
Healthcare will assume responsibility for servicing diagnostic and
biomedical equipment at Mission Health. This will drive
standardization, consistency and overall increased reliability and
quality of care.
This relationship is the culmination of a significant investment by GE
Healthcare Partners, the management consulting arm of GE Healthcare. GE
Healthcare Partners have built capabilities to advise and execute
services that connect GE’s products to clients like Mission Health to
improve quality, reduce cost, and increase access. GE Healthcare
Partners offers broad advisor services, analytics & predictive modeling
capabilities, and has expertise implementing outcomes across the
healthcare continuum.
About Mission Health
Mission Health, based in Asheville, North Carolina, is the state’s
sixth-largest health system and was recognized as one of the nation’s
Top 15 Health Systems from 2012-2015 by Truven Health Analytics,
formerly Thomson Reuters, becoming the only health system in North
Carolina to achieve this recognition.
Mission Health operates six hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery
centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners, long-term acute care
provider Asheville Specialty Hospital, and the region’s only dedicated
Level II trauma center. With approximately 10,700 employees and 2,000
volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and
wellness of the people of western North Carolina. For more information,
please visit mission-health.org or @MissionHealthNC.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and
more affordable healthcare around the world. GE Healthcare (GE) works on
things that matter - great people and technologies taking on tough
challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and
diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies and performance improvement solutions GE Healthcare helps
medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients. http://www.gehealthcare.com
1 Mission Health is the only tertiary-quaternary healthcare
provider in western North Carolina, has been named a Top 15 Health
System (Truven Health Analytics) in four of the past five years and
recently had the lowest readmission rate of any general acute care
hospital in the nation (Modern Healthcare). The health system and its
leaders already have developed several solutions that are being used and
distributed nationwide.
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Contacts:
GE Healthcare
Britta Kons
Britta.Kons@ge.com
203-400-1892
or
Mission
Health System
Rowena Buffett Timms
Rowena.BuffettTimms@msj.org
828-450-4224
Source: GE Healthcare
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