Shifts in the healthcare landscape continue to challenge providers and generate more questions than solutions. New demands, regulations, and reimbursement requirements necessitate a new approach with evolved processes. Shepard Health’s clients benefit from our expertise and hands-on approach, to implement best practices that lead to revenue gains, lower costs and remarkable improvements across the continuum of care.
Our team of Clinical Analysts and Data Scientists work directly with clients at every functional level to turn data into actionable insights that drive best practices. The outcome is the creation of clinical workflows that are revenue-positive, fully operational, and sustainably built.
The Time Is Now
With the introduction of new payment models, new payors, new regulations, pressures on healthcare cost, increased demand, and increased competition, it is essential to remain forward thinking and innovative by prioritizing the following:
Avoiding Joint Commission findings
Creating data infrastructure and analytics to meet Joint Commission requirements
Linking interventions to improvement in outcomes
Prepare and thrive in pay-for-performance contracting models
Decreasing costs and increasing revenue by reducing cost per case, length of stay, and readmissions
Demonstrating evidence-based metrics that drive health plan referrals to gain market share
Optimizing admissions, streamlining intake operations, reducing reliance on overtime staff, and the variance in daily admission volumes
Optimizing organizational structure and staffing
What We Do
Shepard Health specializes in analytics, quality improvement, process development, and technology implementation. As an emerging industry leader in evidence-based healthcare analytics, Shepard Health utilizes an iterative data model that takes the latest in clinical literature, organizational design, and software to implement sustainable, clinical and operational workflows.
Shepard Health will transform your organization by establishing institution-wide outcome metrics, reducing variance in providers treatment , and limiting the variability of cost utilization. Our clients look to us to address the following critical issues:
Linking processes to outcomes
Implementation and monitoring consistency across staff regarding patient assessment & evaluation
Connecting patient data and making data available across the continuum of care
Maximizing the value received from referrals
Creating standardized workflows based on intake and process data collected
Optimizing treatment pathways that minimizes cost and maximize revenue
Implementing outcome-based predictive models for projects like:
a. Length of stay reduction
b. Reduction of readmissions
c. Standardized treatment protocols that lead in key quality and regulatory measures
d. Optimization of transfer center intake processes
The processes Shepard Health implements will engage stakeholders and develop a consensus on key priorities and definitions. With the real-time integration of your EHR and other data systems, Shepard Health will deliver the technical infrastructure and expertise that equips your organization with the latest in predictive analytics. This will ensure that your treatment practices and operations will remain above the industry standard.
Key Milestones & Workplan Timeline
Shepard Health will provide detailed timelines and quarterly progress reports that ensure key milestones are met.
Phase 1 focuses on creating consensus and reporting around outcome metrics and completing the data infrastructure for real-time and predictive analytics.
Phase 2 prioritizes creating predictive models for linking processes to outcomes.
Phase 3 emphasizes the automation of key workflows, optimizing staffing models, building systems that maintain compliance with effective processes.
Data Visualization Options With Shepard Health
Shepard Health’s Executive Dashboard provides a summary key of performance indicators across the continuum of care. With a single click, your organization can quickly see the previous three previous months of compliance, the trend over that time, how current performance compared to your internal goal, and a visual que that quickly highlights areas that are above or below your target.
FIXXER’s real-time Dashboard allows you to interact with your data and track performance. You can quickly filter for a specific metric, time period, location, or provider to track compliance. With the ability to view data over time in a line graph and by provider or location in a bar chart, your visuals will provide clarity to staff and executives.
The FIXXER real-time Action module allows you to search for patients and view a list of all open actions the patient still needs to have completed. The Action module provides a checklist for all clinicians and facilities to ensure they have met all preventive health standards for the patient, met all regulatory requirements, and addressed institutional priorities for every patient. The Action module is perfect for pre-rounding on patients, by making it easy to see what labs, medications, and orders are needed to provide the highest quality care at the lowest cost.
