In Class Assignment
When Health Care Gets a Healthy Dose of Data
Intermountain’s supply chain
Intermountain has started application of the value-based model which is aimed at providing its patients with high-quality services, making the access to the former easier and more available. Among the recent steps which have been made in this direction ProComp deserves our attention as a system designed to reduce costs by presenting all the available services as well as the information to surgeons on their supply options in real time. The system has led to the cost reduction of $ 25 million. The Intermountain Healthcare has involved NML so as to be provided with proper assistance during each stage, namely from self-distribution feasibility to supply chains.
Totally, high-quality healthcare is delivered via standardization, inventory control, and improved efficiency which have been achieved through reducing the number of administrative powers the clinical staff has to spend on.
Obstacles and benefits of using data measure performance
The newly presented system has benefited both the employees and customers, as the latter are not obliged to perform the administrative functions they do not have time for and former are able to monitor the services’ updates and, consequently, to choose the one, which is needed. Also, such innovations make the services per se more available and accessible for people. Additionally, it has boosted interactions between the patients. On the other hand, the innovation has faced such state of affairs, when healthcare technologies are old-fashioned and making it hard to comply with them. Notwithstanding, it is estimated that by 2018 this issue will have been resolved.
Communication issues between departments and business strategies.
It was estimated that new program has embedded analytics support team, when procurement decisions were heavily influenced by data which have been collected by the newly introduced system.
This model is suitable for vertical integration, when different providers of healthcare services could purchase the software discussed and to, consequently, improve the quality of their services; joint ventures which are aimed at reducing costs, when the method discussed can be a tool for reaching of such goal; virtual companies would be also interested to be agents between the distributors and manufacturers of the program discussed.
Improvement of the approach to the patients
The Intermountain healthcare attempts to perform well in context of the adherence to the national standards in this sphere. In particular, it means that the “door-to-balloon time” is to be taken into account, which represents the amount of time from the moment the patient enters the hospital to relief of the blockage via a balloon inflated within the blocked artery. This rate has been reduced to less, than 90 minutes being one of the best among the competitors. Door-to-door technique is to be applied in context of advertising the service and involving more patients to be enrolled in such healthcare system using ProComp.
Supply chain impact on performance.
Contemporary reality demands proper and on time reaction from any entity, in particular the one representing healthcare sphere. The services are to be available; their meaning and goals are to be explained in brief; and the carriers are to be given the possibilities to perform only their functions, not being overwhelmed with additional ones. This is the concept implemented at Intermountain. Nowadays, the process has met certain challenges, in particular unpredictable delays and lack of finance.
Global optimization and value-based caring model.
Collaboration and, further, optimization are the steps necessary to be made in the aspect of value-based model establishment. In the aspect of virtual company it plays almost the main role, if the competitor does want to lose its positions; joint ventures are to apply optimization so as to reduce the costs, and vertical integration requires optimization so as to potentially search for different manufacturers which can propose the new beneficial decisions.
Intermountain and iCentra
Nowadays The iCentra system has taken the role of a supplier to Intermountain the analytics to leverage and support change, when it might take six minutes to input data, but once it was in the system, patients were getting their next steps processed far more quickly. This collaboration has benefited both: Intermountain can be nowadays trained by the specialists from iCentra; additionally, the aforementioned specialists have managed to eliminate the existence of technical errors from Intermountain’s healthcare system.
