ACOs, ER visits, readmissions, care transitions, care coordination, telehealth, medication adherence, medical home — the number of PPACA priorities demanding the attention of healthcare organizations is staggering.

46 Healthcare Metrics to Boost Profitability: Charting 2012 Trends, a graphic compendium of performance benchmarks in key areas of healthcare activity and growth, makes it easy for the healthcare C-suite to stay current, distilling the latest trends into a series of easy-to-digest charts and tables.

This 70-page desktop resource is designed exclusively for the busy healthcare executive who seeks a high-level summary of industry trends and benchmarks. 46 Healthcare Metrics to Boost Profitability: Charting 2012 Trends delivers charts and tables on 46 actionable metrics carefully curated from 2011 market research data by the Healthcare Intelligence Network.

These charts and tables are enhanced by commentary and interviews with industry thought leaders from Aetna, CDPHP, Ohio Medicaid, TRG Healthcare Solutions, St. David's Healthcare and other organizations at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery.

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Table of Contents: 46 Healthcare Metrics

• Healthcare Trends and Forecasts
  • Macro Trends Driving 2011 Healthcare Investment
  • Top 2012 Trends for Hospitals and Health System
  • Most Promising Healthcare Delivery Models for 2012
• Reducing Avoidable ER Visits
  • Top 4 ER Interventions for Recently Discharged Patients
  • Who Generates Unnecessary ED Visits?
• Health and Wellness Incentives
  • Who's Eligible for Health Incentives?
  • Which 5 Wellness Programs Respond Best to Incentives?
  • Top 5 Benefit-Based Health and Wellness Incentives
  • Top 5 Measures of Successful Incentives Programs
• Accountable Care Organizations
  • 5 Organization Types Eligible to be ACOs
  • Who's Administering ACOs?
  • 5 Challenges of CMS ACO Rule
  • Top 5 Challenges of ACO Creation
  • Which Providers Will Participate in ACOs?
  • Top 5 Success Metrics for ACOs
• Care Transitions
  • Care Transition Management Risk Factors
  • Who Conducts Home Visits
  • Coordination Challenges Met by an SNF Network
• Case Management
  • Case Manager Work Locations
  • 8 Roles of the ED Case Manager
  • What's the ROI from Case Management?
  • Top 5 Diagnoses Impacted by Case Management
  • Top 5 Populations Targeted by Case Management
  • 9 Responsibilities of an Embedded Case Manager
• Telehealth/Telemedicine
  • Targeted Health Conditions for Remote Monitoring
  • Top 5 Telehealth Tools for Patients, Plan Members
  • Top 5 Ways to Fund Telehealth
• Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Top 5 Indicators of Medical Home Effectiveness
  • Time Required for Medical Home Conversion
  • Top 5 Ways to Engage Patients
• Reducing Hospital Readmissions
  • Top Tools to Rank Readmission Risk
  • 6 Success Factors in Reducing Readmissions
  • What's the ROI from Reducing Readmissions?
  • Who's Responsible for Reducing Readmissions?
• Medication Adherence
  • Primary Contacts for Medication Adherence
  • Top Targets for Medication Adherence Programs
  • Top Opportunities to Improve Medication Adherence
• Population Health Management
  • Top 5 Behavior Change Models in Health Coaching
  • Who's Connecting HRAs to Care Management?
  • Who's Eligible for Smoking Cessation Programs?
  • Who Reviews HRA Results?
  • Top 5 Reimbursable Services for Weight Management
  • What's the ROI from Obesity Management Programs?
  • Top Trends in Patient Registries
• Patient Satisfaction
  • Who's Responsible for Improving Patient Satisfaction?
  • Top 5 Questions in Patient Satisfaction Surveys

As ACOs, bundled payments and value-based healthcare drive CMS and private payors to roll out new care delivery and reimbursement models, healthcare organizations will want to keep these industry metrics and measurements close at hand to evaluate and plan programs and budgets and compare performance and utilization data.

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