HMC News•
on October 21st, 2011•
NRHA Partners with iVantage Health Analytics to Benchmark Rural Health
KANSAS CITY, MO, September 28, 2011 – The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) announced today at its Critical Access Hospital Conference the names of the Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in America. The Top 100 scored best on the Hospital Strength Index™, in this first-ever comprehensive rating of CAHs. NRHA also announced a partnership with iVantage Health Analytics to improve and advance business intelligence and benchmarking for rural healthcare and to support the 1,750 rural hospitals whose executives are seeking to improve performance.
This Index offers hospital executives, trustees and boards of directors an objective way to measure their relative performance among their peers and across 56 different performance metrics, the most comprehensive tool on the market.
“Now is the time for us to advance the analytics and transparency of the rural health sector. We play such a critical role in providing needed care to Americans, yet our challenges are completely different in access while equally complex in delivery as urban hospitals. We celebrate this diversity and these every day challenges and will need new solutions to ensure our sustainability under the Affordable Care Act. NRHA is committed to advancing performance improvement in our hospitals,” said Alan Morgan, Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Health Association.
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HMC News•
on October 21st, 2011•
PORTLAND, ME, September 21, 2011 – The first hospital ratings system to address the new challenges required by healthcare reform that includes all U.S. acute care hospitals and traditionally unrated rural and critical access hospitals was launched today by iVantage Health Analytics, a newly formed healthcare business intelligence and technology company.
Called the Hospital Strength Index™, the strategic planning tool is designed to deliver hospitals a balanced scorecard and comparable rating of their performance as they begin implementing mandates of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. This Index offers hospital executives, trustees and boards of directors an objective way to measure their relative performance among their competitors and across 56 different performance metrics, the most comprehensive tool on the market. read more
HMC News•
on October 21st, 2011•
PORTLAND, ME, September 21, 2011 – Veteran healthcare industry executives Hud Connery, Tom Day, LeeAnne Denney, and John R. Morrow today announced that they have combined their respective companies (Performance Management Institute, LLC, of Portland, ME; The Healthcare Management Council, Inc., of Needham, MA; Health InfoTechnics, LLC, of Nashville, TN; and The Ratings Guy, LLC, of Belfast, ME) under the umbrella of a common parent company to provide a single source of business intelligence solutions to help providers address the complex requirements of managing under the new healthcare. Although the existing companies will continue certain operations, all new business opportunities will be pursued by the newly formed parent entity, and ultimately all consolidated into the single entity.
Named iVantage Health Analytics, Inc.™, the privately held company, provides comprehensive and objective business information products to help hospitals and health systems strategically manage their growth during a period of significant health reform. read more
