LUMEDX is pleased to announce that clients will enjoy automated updates for all HealthView Analytics (HVA) products as of Nov. 15—the first step in the company's journey towards an effortless automation process for all software as a service (SaaS) customers.

Learn how to unlock the power of the data you already collect to improve your understanding of patient populations and how disease burden impacts quality and financial outcomes by signing up for the upcoming webinar, free from LUMEDX.

Close to 50 LUMEDX customers gathered October. 22 for the annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) User Group conference in New Orleans for product updates and information, tips and tricks, and to learn from one another as the first-ever Analytics Use Case Contest results were announced.

Ensuring the right vision and leadership is in place before you implement a performance analytics solution is key, but even before taking that step you might want to ask yourself: What is my facility’s level of business intelligence (BI) maturity?

With a shared commitment to improving clinical and operational outcomes in the cardiovascular space, LUMEDX and MedAxiom have hit the ground running on their new industry partnership.

Join LUMEDX at the 2019 Advances in Quality and Outcomes (AQO): A Data Managers Meeting next month and learn firsthand how you can use the data you’re already collecting for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) registry to its full advantage.

The ability to generate the meaningful insights necessary to improve care and lower costs in a sustained fashion over time is a hospital’s most vital competitive edge. Having access to the data needed to drive changes to your business, and knowing how to use that data, is imperative.

Do you have a great story about how data analytics have led to better patient care or lower costs or—even better—both? We want to hear about it and we’re sure other healthcare providers do too.

We’re soliciting examples of how analytics have revealed opportunities for process improvement. And to make it fun, we’re going to raffle off gift cards worth up to $100 at the LUMEDX Users Group Conference.

While financial worries continue to plague healthcare leaders, the ability to contain costs may have reached a plateau.

A study by Kaufman Hall, a strategic and financial consulting firm, that was reported by Healthcare Dive analyzed more than 600 hospitals and found that cutting labor costs and implementing efficiencies and improvement efforts could only go so far.

The U.S. healthcare system could save between $200 million and $500 million per year if 50 percent of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) patients were discharged the same day, as reported by JAMA Cardiology. A Canadian study showed that same-day discharge (SDD) after PCI was associated with a 50 percent reduction in costs, with a mean saving of U.S. $1,086 per patient, and European studies of this subject have also reported significant savings per patient.

Yet despite the evidence, many hospitals are still missing out on this significant savings opportunity and the rate of same-day discharge after PCI remains low.