Test Utilization for High-Value Care

Are you eliminating sources of unnecessary testing?

Delivering the right test to the right patient can be challenging. What’s even more complex is understanding where waste is occurring.

With lab data siloed across hospitals, gaining access to meaningful insights can take months or years.

Keeping up with the day-to-day operations gives you little time to make an impact on unnecessary testing.

How do I reduce waste within my health system?

How do I improve patient care and practice precision testing?

How do I track and address clinical variation?

How do I educate physicians about optimized ordering practices?

We have the answer: hc1 Test Utilization™

Reduce unnecessary testing with data-driven insights

With so many moving parts in healthcare, it can be difficult to identify the root cause of inefficient or wasteful practices. For example, a single health system might have multiple factors such as separate locations, siloed information systems, and varied data warehouses to make it difficult to even understand the scope of the data at hand.

With the right data and insight into high-cost, low-value, and antiquated test ordering, your health system can effectively monitor orders, take action, and educate physicians.

See Testing from All Levels

With a simple HL7 feed we easily integrate with all of your LIS data sources meaning you can access information about testing patterns throughout the health system, including inpatient, outpatient, and reference labs.

Align Clinical Guidelines with Utilization Goals

hc1 Test Utilization categorizes unnecessary testing into general types, such as repetitive or demographic. Your health system can edit or add guidelines within each type as new tests and recommendations are released.

Monitor Testing Trends in Real-Time

The data analysis engine feeds information about unnecessary tests to easy-to-use dashboards. From there, you can filter by the general type of unnecessary testing, compare ordering trends for different locations, and track progress to ensure the right test is administered to the right patient every time.

Target Provider Education Efforts

Drill down into pre-built reports to see which providers are ordering tests outside of established guidelines. Take this information and use it to tailor messaging directed at the changes that will have the most impact for your health system and the patients within it.

Utilization Insights that Matter

hc1 Test Utilization is a comprehensive solution that includes both strategic guidance and cloud-based technology to take the guesswork out of launching an effective utilization program. Visualize and track utilization metrics with the cloud-based hc1 Test Utilization solution to identify specific areas of improvement.

Visualize Utilization Metrics

Rapidly ingest, normalize, and organize clinical data into actionable insights so you can pinpoint exactly where your team is losing revenue or driving up costs via missed opportunities.

Customize Clinical Guidelines

Start from a core set of guidelines that are based on a set of rules from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely® initiative. Choose from those or add new ones that fit into one of the established unnecessary testing types. Post-go-live, push guideline updates into the platform as needed.

Drive Positive Change

Generate alerts and notifications to drive immediate action. Where urgent ordering patterns or scenarios occur, such as the use of high-cost genetic testing or a significant increase in unnecessary testing, the hc1 platform will instantly notify designated individuals.

Visualize Utilization Metrics

Rapidly ingest, normalize, and organize clinical data into actionable insights so you can pinpoint exactly where your team is losing revenue or driving up costs via missed opportunities.
Customize Clinical Guidelines

Start from a core set of guidelines that are based on a set of rules from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely® initiative. Choose from those or add new ones that fit into one of the established unnecessary testing types. Post-go-live, push guideline updates into the platform as needed.
Drive Positive Change

Generate alerts and notifications to drive immediate action. Where urgent ordering patterns or scenarios occur, such as the use of high-cost genetic testing or a significant increase in unnecessary testing, the hc1 platform will instantly notify designated individuals.

Learn from Utilization Expert, Diane Janowiak

Learn how test utilization has become the ‘last frontier’ of cost savings in the modern health system, as well as how hc1 can help health systems make the most of a successful utilization strategy.

Learn from Utilization Expert, Diane Janowiak

McLaren Health Care Drove Positive Change with hc1 Test Utilization™

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Quest Diagnostics and hc1 Collaborate

This strategic collaboration aims to improve patient care and reduce costs across thousands of health systems nationwide by delivering insights that empower optimal lab testing.

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Test Utilization Resources

Whitepaper

How to Deliver High-Value Care with Utilization

Improve internal operations while keeping your patients top of mind. Today’s healthcare teams are working to…

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Case Study

North Memorial Health Care

How North Memorial Health Care Reduced Unreimbursed Testing by 50% Streamline internal operations, increase client retention, and optimize test utilization…

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