Lab testing is the single highest volume medical activity within a health system, with more than 4 billion lab tests performed annually in the United States at an estimated cost of $65 billion. However, 20% of diagnostic tests can be considered unnecessary. All this waste not only leads to billions of dollars in avoidable costs, but also negatively impacts patient care.
hc1 Lab Stewardship combines unrivaled expertise, proven program infrastructure, and comprehensive analytics to help hospitals and health systems optimize lab testing. Our nationally recognized team has helped hundreds of hospitals generate millions of dollars in test utilization savings through our tailored processes and proprietary technology.
People Process and Technology
Our team of experts work with you to implement a tailored program infrastructure and strategy. Then, we utilize our real-time analytics platform to uncover problem areas and monitor the progress of interventions.
People: Unbiased, nationally recognized team
Our clinical experts work closely with your medical staff to augment or develop a committee, giving you confidence that you have a strong governance structure that can drive improvement.
Process: Process: Tailored, phased implementation strategy
We implement our proven framework to create a strong and sustainable program infrastructure. We focus on achievable initiatives to gain initial momentum and build on progress over time.
Technology: Comprehensive, real-time analytics
Our analytics platform provides insight into ordering patterns across providers and locations, uncovering the data necessary to drive lab stewardship initiatives and monitor performance.
Our Approach
Science of Change
Access to thought leadership and credible experts that leverage objective and evidence-based information, establish credibility with key clinical stakeholders across your organization, and quickly become perceived as trusted advisors.
Psychology of Change
Extensive clinical, operational, and leadership expertise to work through the intrinsic – and often underlying – challenges impeding execution of change. hc1’s experience at 450+ hospitals accelerates speed to value for our partners.
Capacity for Change
Experienced & trusted clinical advisors with the demonstrated skills and knowledge to expertly participate in the execution and implementation of change initiatives.
Project Roles
Selecting hc1 as your high-value care platform includes an engagement with the service delivery team. This group is committed to building a customized project plan by understanding your organization’s strategic objectives. You will be partnered with an activation team dedicated to your organization.
A smooth activation is supported by an engaged and active team on both sides. After guiding thousands of clients through the journey toward high-value care, we’ve identified a few key areas where we need members of your team with areas of expertise. By introducing your experts to our experts, we can ensure an activation that will go as smoothly and as quickly as possible.
Please note that while some of your team members may fulfill multiple roles, a successful activation will require each of these roles to be represented.
hc1 Team
Client Engagement Manager
- Regularly Update on Project Deliverables
- Ensure Fulfillment of Partnership Commitments
- Proactively Identify and Mitigate Risks
Lab Stewardship Program Oversight
- Offer Guidance on Evidence-Based LS Strategies
- Support the Development of a Lab Stewardship Program
- Distribute LS Awareness & Educational Materials
- Present Data-Driven Insights
- Engage in LS Committees & Working Sessions
- Communicate Program Updates & Challenges
- Serve as Contact & Escalation Point
- Facilitate Report Sharing
- Facilitate Effective Project Team Meetings
Finance Oversight
- Deliver Financial Impact Reports To Executive Leadership Routinely
Data Integration
- Facilitates data onboarding process
Client Team
Executive Sponsor
- Engage in Leadership Reporting
- Ensure Resource Allocation & Shared Accountability
- Introduce hc1 team to key clinical stakeholders
Lab Stewardship Program Oversight
- Lead and Support LS Committees
- Provide Medical Expertise & Advocacy
- Engage Physicians & Promote Education
- Drive Organizational Support & Overcome Barriers
- Establish and Review LS Guidelines & Goals
- Monitor Program Metrics & Identify Opportunities
- Facilitate Multidisciplinary Collaboration & Standardization
- Designate a LS Project Lead as the Primary Point of Contact
- Assist with LS Committee Planning & Execution
Finance Oversight
- Identify and Secure Financial Resources for Monthly Metrics
- Coordinate with hc1 Leads for Financial Reporting
Data Oversight
- Facilitate Data & System Access
- Enable Financial & Contractual Transparency
- Communicate Key EMR Updates
Understanding the Process
Experience a seamless rollout with our proven implementation model. This integrated framework strategically combines program infrastructure development, insightful metrics & analytics, engaging education & awareness campaigns, advanced clinical strategies with CPOE, and proactive utilization management for optimal outcomes.
Strong Program Infrastructure
Our clinical experts start each engagement by ensuring a strong program infrastructure is in place, whether that means augmenting your existing committee or developing a new one.
Phased Implementation
Our three-phase implementation strategy starts with the most achievable initiatives, allowing for the program infrastructure to take hold before moving to more complex and impactful testing.
Order Set Evaluation
As we analyze unnecessary testing, we evaluate your order sets for outlier testing and implement CPOE and CDST recommendations to guide physicians.
Clinician Education & Awareness
We work with you to create comprehensive education and test utilization awareness campaigns for clinicians and medical staff, ensuring alignment across your organization.
Technology Activation
Automatically surface test misutilization trends by location, specialty or individual provider and monitor key stewardship metrics over time to ensure ordering behavior is improving.