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Insight to optimize blood utilization for increased safety and lower costs
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The Blood Utilization analytics accelerator provides data and visualizations to help healthcare systems see, understand, and improve patient blood management. It supports efforts to ensure clinically indicated and volume-appropriate transfusions that decrease patient risk and improve clinical and financial outcomes. ![]() The Blood Utilization accelerator supports optimized use and best-practice care. The problemOrganizations typically focus on blood utilization for these reasons:
Our approachThe Blood Utilization accelerator is an interactive application that provides both overview and details of blood utilization in your healthcare system. Users can gain insight into the factors driving blood use by applying filters related to provider specialty type, transfusion type, and hemoglobin level. Additionally, the application surfaces the indication and clinical logic for ordering blood, allowing users to examine appropriateness of utilization on a per-patient and population basis. Users can also identify variation in practice among providers within a specialty and thereby identify opportunities to standardize utilization for best clinical and financial results. Benefits and features
Use casesThe CMO is concerned about rising blood usage in the system—and a recent uptick in transfusion-related adverse events. She uses the Blood Utilization accelerator to identify the specialty with the highest use (cardiovascular surgery) and the providers whose practices optimize blood management, combining lower utilization with excellent clinical outcomes. She sponsors a prehabilitation initiative to prepare the patient prior to surgery, which includes standardizing orders, delivering education, and engaging surgeons around best-practice care—and uses the application to gauge the impact on cost, waste, and safety. As targets are reached in the cardiac surgery specialty, the application helps identify and prioritize additional blood management opportunities in other surgical areas. |
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