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4 Ways to Reduce Penalties Under the Hospital-
Acquired Condition Reduction Program
By Bobbi Brown & Michael Barton

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HAC Reduction Program
Here are four tips to help
you effectively implement
a strategy that will
decrease your risk of
receiving penalties for
high Hospital-Acquired
Condition (HAC) rates

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Get Proactive!
Proactively evaluate,
measure, and optimize
critical care processes
and outcomes.
Every system is perfectly
designed to achieve exactly
the results it gets.”
- Don Berwick, MD

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Accuracy in Coding
Put the right coding processes in
place to accurately capture your
patients’ POA (present on
admission) data.

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Create a Culture of Safety
Apply what you’ve learned to
create a culture of safety.
Review cases of HAC to
discover the source of the
problem. Then apply what
you’ve learned to improve
your systems of care delivery.

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Consider Active Surveillance
Consider active surveillance
systems to identify HACs and
potential patient harm.
Active systems enjoy much
greater success, accuracy and
speed in detecting HACs, and
offers increased potential for
prevention or harm mitigation.

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Do you have high rates of
HACs at your hospital?
What have you done to
prevent them?
Have you tried any of
these solutions to reduce
your HACs? If so, what
were your results?
Improving HAC Scores

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Bobbi Brown is Vice President of Financial Engagement for Health Catalyst, a data
warehousing and analytics company based in Salt Lake City. Ms. Brown started her
healthcare career at Intermountain Healthcare supporting clinical integration efforts
before moving to Sutter Health and, later, Kaiser Permanente, where she served as
Vice President of Financial Planning and Performance. Ms. Brown holds an MBA
from the Thunderbird School of Global Management as well as a BA in Spanish and
Education from Misericordia University. She regularly writes and teaches on finance-
related healthcare topics.
Michael Barton joined Health Catalyst as Vice President in January 2013. He
completed his training at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Upon
graduation in 1994, he was employed with the Pharmacoepidemiology Team, a
multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists, infection control practitioners, quality control
specialists, pharmacists, and healthcare IT specialists at the University of Utah. After
four years, Michael moved his clinical practice to the Shock-Trauma ICU at LDS
Hospital. Here, he had the opportunity to apply his infectious disease and critical care
knowledge. After eight years of clinical practice in conjunction with five years of IT industry consulting
experience, Michael joined HIT startup TheraDoc, Inc. as a consultant in 2000 and full-time in 2001.
Michael spent 12 years with TheraDoc, where he served in various roles. The last 5 years Michael
served on the senior leadership team as SVP, Knowledge and Product Development where Michael
oversaw the Knowledge Management, Product Management, Engineering, and Quality teams. For
Michael, joining Health Catalyst means continuing to pursue his passion of improving the quality and
safety of patient care through applied healthcare IT solutions.