CJR program success: Stick to metrics that matter

In a recent blog post, ECG Management Consultants helps hospital administrators determine which metrics are most important when tracking CJR.

 Data can be a valuable strategic asset for hospitals. Benchmarked internally and to national best practices, it can be used to identify opportunities to lower costs as well as improve quality and patient outcomes. But hospitals only benefit when the right data is communicated in the right way to the right stakeholders at the right time.

This is a challenge, considering the sheer volume of data that hospitals monitor and measure on a daily basis. Hospitals track daily metrics for utilization, quality, finance, patient satisfaction, and department protocols, to name a few. And now, nearly 800 hospitals across the country have new data requirements to contend with: the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) program will require participating hospitals to collect and report data for CMS’s mandatory bundled payment initiative.

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