Community Connect – Benefits
Benefits of Community Connect
- Improved clinical outcomes
- Adverse drug events & med administration error reductions
- Reduction in length of stay
- Reduction in duplicate procedures
- Improved quality measures
- Reduction in CAUTI (catheter associated urinary tract infection)
- Reduced Hospital acquired infections
- Reduction in CLABSI (central line associated blood stream infection)
- Reduction in sepsis
- Reduction in Fall Rate
- Reduction in VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia)
- Behavioral Health: virtual visits and improved referrals
- Decreased referral backlog
- Increased schedule utilization
- Expanded depression screening
- Population Health management
- MyChart care companions
- Cheers campaigns
- Close care gaps by sending cancer screening communication
- Improved clinical outcomes for communication regarding exams needed
- Preventable admission program reduced readmission rates and ED visits
- Metrics and scoring in Epic to predict readmission risk and reduce IP days
- Improved completion rates in quality measures
- Colon Cancer screening
- Pneumovax
- Breast cancer screening/Mammograms
- MACRA (medicare access and CHIP reauth)
- Operational efficiencies
- OR room wait time reductions
- Reduced no shows and cancellations
- Increased throughput
- Sooner appointments using Fast Pass
- Zero work required by staff, all automatic to keep schedules full
- Urgent care visits seen faster using On My Way
- Faster Medical record access for imaging results
- Cost savings and increased revenue
- Reducing waste and duplication
- Order sets with defined orders and decision support
- OR Supplies
- Reduction in lab tests (unnecessary)
- Mailed letters and test results
- Paperless billing and payment plans
- Releasing results electronically
- Reduced printing expenses
- Reduced paper usage/cost
- Charging
- Improved coding and revenue capture
- Self pay collection
- 340B administration
- AR day reduction
- Staffing efficiencies and user productivity
- Increased clinician productivity
- Patient messaging reduced nurses time
- Ambient voice technology reduces provider time per visit
- Reduced note writing time using generative AI, note templates and smartforms
- Reduced clinician time using refill protocols for established patients on maintenance medications
- Reduced time spent on prior authorizations using electronic prior authorization
- Reduced nursing time with MyChart Bedside patient education
- Reduced nursing time spent chasing capacity reporting with automated reports in Epic
- Reduced time spent posting surgical logs by using Epic to post automatically
- Time saved for pharmacy with pharmacy verification workflow
- Communication to nurses
- End of day processing
- Significantly reduced clinician time with PDMP checks with Epic integration
- Reduced burden on non clinical staff
- Recycle automation
- Automated coding
- Automated patient estimates
- Reduced FTE costs
- Provider CPOE
- Paperless registration
- Automated referrals workflows for UM
- Call center
- MyChart online appointment scheduling
- MyChart refill requests
- Reduced Nursing time with automated device integration for vitals, blood gases, fetal monitors, anesthesia
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