Success Story - M Health Fairview | Qventus, Inc.
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M Health Fairview unlocks system-wide capacity through automation with Qventus

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  • Location: Minnesota
  • Type: Academic Health System
  • Facilities: 11
  • EHR: Epic

Learn how M Health Fairview automated operations to reduce workload, increase capacity, and deliver a consumer-centric experience.

When I think about M Health Fairview’s vision of becoming one of the top academic health systems, you can’t get that without a partnership like we have with Qventus. Laura Reed, DNP, MBA, RN, COO & Chie Nursing Executive

Challenge

As a newly combined health system, the complexity of operations held back teams from delivering on the M Health Fairview brand promise. Hospitals across the system operated in siloes, and frontline teams relied on highly manual processes.

Process improvements and EHR tools were no longer enough. Leadership knew they needed to improve operational reliability and decrease the complexity for care teams and patients.

The machine learning that Qventus gives us is amazing. The estimated date of discharge prediction is something we never thought we’d be able to have at our fingertips. Sameer Gupta, MD, VP of Medical Affairs

Qventus Deployment

By partnering with Qventus, M Health Fairview digitally transformed their care operations system-wide, unlocking significant efficiency improvements. With improved operational reliability, the health system increased capacity to care for patients and decreased workload for staff — making it easier for M Health Fairview to deliver on their vision of consumer-center care.

On top of the Qventus real-time automation platform that integrates with their EHR, M Health Fairview deployed solutions for inpatient, perioperative, command center, and emergency department settings. This complete system provides a scalable foundation for future enhancements and innovation.

  • 0.5 - 1.0

    day reduction in length of stay

  • 5-7x

    increase in morning discharges

  • 35 beds

    effective bed capacity created at largest facilities

  • >57%

    utilization of released OR blocks otherwise likely unused

*Results from deployment through today (March 2021-April 2022)

Inpatient

 

By hardwiring discharge planning processes using Qventus, M Health Fairview teams are consistently able establish early discharge plans and manage care progression for each patient.

This starts during their daily care progression huddles, when teams use Qventus to guide the discussion for each patient — making rounds highly efficient. Machine learning predicts the estimated date of discharge and disposition, for example, so that every patient has a discharge plan early in their stay. And, automation workflows prioritize orders to reduce manual communication steps with ancillaries, proactively resolving barriers to achieve a safe, on-time discharge.

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Command Center

To drive greater systemness, M Health Fairview centralized teams and resources in an enterprise-wide mission control. But instead of taking a traditional command center where teams manually review data to identify issues, M Health Fairview needed a system that gave staff real-time visibility and surfaced actionable opportunities.

Qventus Command Center Solution makes it easier for M Health Fairview’s centralized teams to manage system flow and capacity. AI-powered predictions help teams see where bottlenecks will likely develop so that they can proactively mitigate them, such as morning discharges that may not go according to plan, or where EDs could become overcrowded. The intelligence also proactively optimizes patient admissions and transfers, enabling rapid load-balancing of resources across the system.

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Perioperative

In order to recover surgical volumes and margins eroded by the pandemic, M Health Fairview is driving perioperative growth by automating OR scheduling processes using Qventus.

The solution unlocks additional OR time by using machine learning to predict unused blocks weeks in advance, and then encourages release of that time back to M Health Fairview’s ORs. The software proactively offers OR time to surgeons and schedulers and also provides a reservation interface for them to view and request OR time — without logging into the EHR. What’s more, M Health Fairview leaders and surgeons can monitor their operational performance in real-time.

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Emergency Department

To minimize ED delays and mitigate crowding, M Health Fairview automated ED patient flow with Qventus. Machine learning predicts when a bottleneck in the ED begins to emerge and automatically prompts teams to take targeted action. Now, teams have real-time visibility into ED flow and can get ahead of potential issues.

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