WakeMed Health & Hospitals struggled with manual, time-consuming processes to obtain real-time data for its cardiovascular enhanced recovery after surgery program, hindering performance analysis and improvement amid costly, life-altering post-surgery complications. Leveraging the Health Catalyst® data platform's high-value analytics—including a CV ERAS application and Healthcare.AI™—WakeMed gained timely, actionable insights to monitor performance, compare cohorts/providers, and uncover optimization opportunities. This fueled continuous improvement, reduced clinical variation, cut direct variable costs by $4.5M, achieved the lowest risk-adjusted mortality (0.8%), and slashed 30-day readmissions by 38%.

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