Carson Tahoe Health: IBM CareDiscovery clinical performance improvement solution for service-line value development

The need
Carson Tahoe Health needed insights to convince its board that an
outpatient palliative care program could help address its higher-thanaverage
mortality rates and help decrease the risk of future financial
impact from those rates


The solution
The healthcare system used IBM® CareDiscovery® to track and analyze
end-stage patient mortality and related length of stay, readmissions,
utilization and costs in key disease groups—by comparing those who
participated in trial inpatient palliative care and those who did not


The benefit
The analysis was used to demonstrate to the system’s board that an
outpatient palliative care service line was viable in terms of both cost
savings and quality-of-care improvement

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