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Despite some green shoots, the uncertainty of healthcare reform and the economy provides little guidance for healthcare executives charged with setting their organizational direction and agendas for the year ahead.

Enter the 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks Yearbook: Metrics, Measurements and Innovations — a comprehensive collection of benchmarks in key areas of healthcare activity and growth — from the adoption of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) to reduction of hospital readmissions to the use of health coaching, patient outreach, financial incentives and telehealth to foster behavior change and reverse healthcare spend.

Compiled in 2009 from responses to the Healthcare Intelligence Network monthly e-survey series on key healthcare trends, the 200-page 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks Yearbook delivers more than 200,000 data points from 1,370 responding healthcare organizations in an easy-to-use binder format. Including more than 140 graphs and tables, the yearbook documents benchmarks on adoption, activity and ROI in 10 key healthcare areas:

• Healthcare Trends for 2010
• Emergency Room Throughput
• Health & Wellness Incentives
• Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
• Care Transition Management
• Impact of the Uninsured and Underinsured
• Health Coaching in Disease Management
• Patient Education & Outreach
• Telehealth and Telemedicine
• Hospital Readmissions

Download the executive summary of the 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks Yearbook: Metrics, Measurements and Innovations.

If travel restrictions prevented you from networking with industry colleagues this year, this 200-page resource in a convenient binder format is an efficient and convenient means of getting up to speed on industry developments. As healthcare reform unfolds, healthcare organizations will need these industry metrics and measurements close at hand to evaluate and plan programs and budgets and compare performance and utilization data.

What makes the 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks Yearbook so relevant are the more than 200,000 valuable data points on each topic:

• Existing programs
• Planned programs
• Demographics
• Adoption rates
• Duration of interventions
• Targeted populations
• Participant identification methods
• Program components
• Support tools and technologies
• Challenges, benefits and ROI
• Impact on population satisfaction, health status and utilization

Actionable data from 1,379 respondents on each healthcare agenda priority is supplemented with:

• Easy-to-follow tables and graphs — more than 140 in all;
• Prescription for Success — Relevant analysis and practical guidance from healthcare thought leaders, including:
  • 4 Ways to Improve Care Delivery in the Medical Home, Michael Erikson, vice president of primary care services for Group Health Cooperative;
  • 6 Steps to Using DM to Reduce Acute Utilization, Ariel Linden, Dr.P.h., M.S., president of Linden Consulting Group;
  • The 10 Realities of Healthcare, Dr. Craig Samitt, MBA, president and CEO of Dean Health System;
  • 3 Pillars for a Medication Adherence Strategy, Connie Commander, past president of the Case Management Society of America and president of Commander’s Premier Consulting Corporation;
  • 3 Health Coaching Models for Behavior Change, Roger Reed, chief consumer engagement architect for Gordian Health Solutions;
  • 3 Ways to Decrease Heart Failure Rehospitalizations, Lenore Blank, administrative manager of the heart failure team and pulmonary hypertension program at Hackensack University Medical Center;
  • and many more.
• Best ideas and innovations from survey respondents experiencing success in key initiatives;
• The complete benchmark survey tool.

Download the executive summary of the 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks Yearbook: Metrics, Measurements and Innovations.

Following a year of economic uncertainty, C-suite executives seeking inspiration and innovation to kick off the new year will not want to miss the collection of benchmarks, guidance and lessons learned condensed into this essential planning tool.