EVANSTON, Ill., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A new survey indicates the nation's top performing hospitals are more likely to adopt new patient care technologies and treat a larger percentage of people.
The Solucient Corp.'s 10th edition of its 100 top hospitals survey found if all acute care hospitals performed at the same level as the nation's top hospitals, 84,000 more Medicare patients could survive and an additional 54,000 patient stays could be complication-free each year -- at an estimated annual savings of $10 billion.
Appearing in a supplement to the Sept. 29 issue of Modern Healthcare magazine, the study recognizes the nation's top hospitals for setting performance benchmarks in four areas: quality of care, operational efficiency, financial performance and adaptation to the environment.
Among key findings, so-called benchmark hospitals, those appearing on the list four or more years are more likely to be early adopters of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. Such hospitals also are more likely than their peers to administer newer drugs to ischemic stroke patients or those undergoing coronary balloon angioplasty surgery.
Solucient provides health care information to more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals, as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
