CV programs generate a tremendous amount of data. Collecting, analyzing, and ultimately acting on that data is what separates the programs that succeed from those that struggle. For many leading CV programs across the country, heartbase is the key to more successfully managing and leveraging their clinical and financial data.
Between hbCOR, hbNote, and hbAnalytics, heartbase offers innovative solutions for every side of the data equation—and they work even better together. hbRecon is the key to delivering even stronger results for your program’s clinical insights and financial goals.
Part 1 of this blog series covered how hbCOR and hbRecon make collecting and acting on your CV data simple. Part 2 showed how hbNote and hbRecon help CV programs get ahead of costly coding mistakes. Here in Part 3, we’ll show how hbRecon works toward the same goal as hbAnalytics, heartbase’s solution for real-time clinical and financial dashboards.
hbAnalytics: Meaningful Metrics for Real-Time Insights
Even if your program has mastered the art of capturing CV data, many run into the same issue: what does it all mean, and what do you do with it?
hbAnalytics is purpose-built to help CV programs see the full picture of their data and understand the path forward. By merging clinical and financial reporting, hbAnalytics gives clinicians and hospitals the real-time insights they need to strengthen their research, improve patient care, and reduce costs.
- The metrics that matter: hbAnalytics consolidates clinical or merged clinical and financial data to easily compare performance by various parameters across your network, divisions or regions, facilities, and providers with patient-level drillthrough.
- Visual dashboards: Simply visualize your CV datasets with dynamic graphs, benchmarks, metric performances, contribution margins, COE goals, and more. hbAnalytics supports STS and ACC-NCDR dashboards, with multiple channels of distribution.
- Custom reports: Quickly and easily generate custom reports with graphical renderings, and automatically distribute them to authorized users. Optionally integrating clinical registry data with coding and financial data enables reporting on a variety of financial parameters, providing deeper insight into your bottom line.
hbRecon: CV Data Alignment for More Accurate Revenue
Clinicians and coding teams don’t always see eye to eye. Whether it’s unclear clinical documentation or missing information entirely, the data that’s passed between the clinical side of your business and the coding side can leave critical and costly information on the cutting room floor. That misalignment can have six-figure repercussions for your revenue.
hbRecon helps CV programs overcome alignment discrepancies and ensure that the clinician’s insights and documentation are captured and represented on the coding side. By extrapolating your CV registry data, hbRecon suggests an appropriate medical billing code (MS DRG, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, CDM) for the procedure that accurately reflects the services provided and the patient’s conditions, securing the appropriate reimbursement.
- A single source of truth: Clinical registry, coding, and financial datasets often exist in siloes. hbRecon brings those disparate datasets together side by side in a single intuitive interface. This approach uncovers potential documentation gaps that would otherwise leave major revenue on the table.
- Clinician and coder collaboration: Clinicians aren’t taught to code. Likewise, coders aren’t versed in the clinical nuances of CV procedures. hbRecon acts as a translator, giving both teams a shared platform to voice their needs and do their jobs efficiently.
- Streamline operations: When the speed bumps on the path to revenue are paved flat, a stronger bottom line often follows. Many leading CV programs use the revenue unlocked with hbRecon to invest in their teams, equipment, and overall operations.
hbAnalytics + hbRecon: Deeper Insights for Informed Improvements
When clinical and financial data work together, CV programs can truly achieve more. While they operate as separate platforms, hbAnalytics and hbRecon use overlapping data sources to offer thorough insights of your program’s performance, both clinically and financially.
This holistic approach provides immediate feedback on the measures that deliver the greatest impact on patient care and your bottom line. Many of heartbase’s clients leverage those insights to demonstrate the success of their CV programs and communicate opportunities for improvement.
“That’s why you collect the data: to improve outcomes for the patients in your community,” shares Karen G. McNickle, RN, MSN, former Manager of Cardiovascular Services, Data and Quality at one of heartbase’s hospital clients. “hbRecon helps us accurately document the severity of our patients’ illnesses and receive appropriate financial compensation to pour back into improving our CV program.”
Through coding reconciliation and rebilling with hbRecon and process improvements with hbAnalytics, hospitals that employ a unified heartbase workflow more easily identify areas of opportunity for their CV programs.
“hbAnalytics provides us with real-time dashboards we can use to audit our data and distribute scorecards to help reach our performance goals. The Center of Excellence dashboards allow us to set internal benchmarks and to identify hospital and network performance on priority outcomes and other important metrics, delivering actionable insights from a governed, single source of truth.”
-Jerod Weimer, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
Build a Stronger heartbase Workflow Today
Throughout this blog series, you’ve learned how hbRecon unlocks the full potential of the unified heartbase workflow with hbCOR, hbNote, and hbAnalytics. Together, heartbase has helped CV programs master their data and make significant improvements in operations, patient outcomes, and revenue capture.
Let’s put our heads together and see how hbRecon, hbAnalytics, and the rest of the heartbase suite can move your CV program forward.