Predictive Modeling: Good for Budgets and Patients

March 30, 2010 05:21 EDT
by Rosa Randazzo

Kathy Jardone, COO, RN, CRRN , of Community Health Partners, discusses with Health Leaders Media the benefits of using predictive modeling and D2Explorer to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

“…In early 2009, Jardone says Community Health Partners began working with First Service Administrators, Inc. (FSAI) and a technology called D2Explorer, which is a Web-native, Application Service Provider product that leverages data to identify, manage, and minimize financial and clinical risk related to a population. The technology also offered them identification, financial trending and reporting, utilization and clinical care gaps, and a comparison against normative benchmarks. These are just a few of the capabilities of some predictive modeling programs.

‘With this, we've already been able to detect two patients with breast cancer early on and get them into the system for treatment—we estimate that's about a half a million in savings right there," explains Jardone. "We want to stay solvent and save money, but outcomes are the most important thing to us.’"

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