The Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center has selected ArborMetrix’s cloud-based analytics platform EpisodeMetrix to identify care improvement and cost reduction opportunities in hospitals across the state. ArborMetrix’s cloud-based solution is able to provide analytics and reporting based on state-wide hospital discharge data.
The partnership will allow MHA to combine its all-payer claims database with the EpsiodeMetrix platform to measure performance on readmissions measures and quality of care at member hospitals.
MHA’s Keystone Center Executive Director Sam R. Watson plans to work with ArborMetrix to analyze readmissions rates for key conditions including pneumonia, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and joint replacement. They plan to identify patients treated at multiple facilities to more accurately calculate readmission rates and generate savings for many high-cost conditions.
He said, “This will allow our member hospitals to not only comply with CMS requirements for value-based payments, but more importantly to understand what they will need to do to improve the quality of care for their patients.”
MHA also plans to make use of the EpisodeMetrix solution to analyze quality metrics to measure in-hospital mortality, rates of serious surgical complications, rates of unplanned reoperations, readmission rates, and hospital composite quality scores.
For more information, go to www.mha.org and http://arbormetrix.com.