McAlester Regional Health Center (MRHC), a hospital utilizing Meditech Expanse, sought to improve financial and operational efficiency to address challenges with manual reporting and the need for more timely insights. This case study explores their partnership with Sixth Sense Intelligence, and how SMaRT Analytics transformed their data management by delivering real-time insights, automated reporting, and increased efficiency across departments.
About McAlester Regional Health Center
McAlester Regional Health Center (MRHC) is a leading healthcare provider serving southeastern Oklahoma, dedicated to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care. Committed to innovation and operational excellence, MRHC leverages advanced medical technology and a highly skilled team of healthcare professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients. The hospital continuously strives to enhance healthcare accessibility, optimize resources, and maintain cost-effective operations to provide long-term value to both patients and the community.
Factors Impacting McAlester’s Improvement Goals
Before implementing SMaRT Analytics, MRHC recognized several obstacles that hindered their goals to improve efficiency and streamline financial and operational processes:
- Optimized Data Accessibility: Meditech Expanse was not Excel-friendly, making it difficult and time-consuming to extract, manipulate, and analyze financial data.
- Accelerated Productivity Insights: While budget variance reports were timely, productivity tracking needed improvement to allow for faster decision-making.
- Reduced Manual Workloads: Financial analysts spent significant time building complex pivot tables, reducing their availability to focus on strategic analysis.
- Faster Insights: Leadership sought more up-to-date financial data to make proactive, informed decisions.
- Easier Data Interpretation: Clinical and administrative staff needed clearer, more actionable financial insights to identify trends and take action.
MRHC recognized the potential for a more efficient, accurate, and user-friendly solution to enhance financial decision-making, reporting, and operational oversight.
The Solution: SMaRT Analytics
To address these challenges, MRHC adopted SMaRT Analytics, a powerful analytics automation platform that streamlined financial reporting, improved data accessibility, and enhanced productivity tracking.
Key Benefits of SMaRT Analytics at MRHC
- Direct Meditech Integration: Eliminates manual data pulling by seamlessly integrating with Meditech Expanse.
- Real-Time Reporting: Reduces reporting turnaround from a month to about two weeks, enabling faster financial insights.
- Improved Financial Visibility: Allows for the quick identification of unprofitable service lines, leading to cost-saving measures.
- Enhanced Productivity Monitoring: Provides leadership with instant access to staffing and budgeting data for real-time operational adjustments.
- User-Friendly Data Visualization: Simplifies data interpretation with intuitive dashboards, graphs, and visual analytics, making insights more accessible to all teams.
“Having access to real-time financial insights in an easy-to-use format has been a game-changer. Some of our team members literally cheered when they saw how much easier it was to interpret the data!”
— Cheryl Perry, CFO, McAlester Regional Health Center
The Results
By implementing SMaRT Analytics, MRHC achieved major improvements in financial oversight, decision-making, and operational efficiency. The platform cut reporting times, improved productivity tracking, and provided real-time financial insights, empowering leadership to make faster, more informed decisions with greater confidence while optimizing hospital resources.
Key Outcomes
- 50% Faster Service Line Analysis: Reduced from one month to two weeks, enabling quicker insights into service line performance with greater confidence.
- Instant Decision-Making: Surgical cost analyses now take 15-20 minutes instead of a week, allowing leadership to negotiate vendor pricing and reduce supply costs in real time.
- Improved Financial Performance: MRHC conducted a thorough assessment of service lines, leading to informed adjustments and optimizations for improved efficiency.
- Enhanced Productivity Tracking: Managers now have real-time access to staffing and budgeting data, improving variance reporting and optimizing department-level efficiency.
- Cross-Departmental Adoption: The Coding and CDI teams now use SMaRT Analytics for case mix analysis, improving billing accuracy and financial oversight. Plans are in place to expand the platform to departmental operating statements for deeper financial insights.
With faster reporting, improved financial visibility, and streamlined operations, SMaRT Analytics has transformed MRHC’s ability to drive efficiency and cost savings across the organization.
Why McAlester Regional Health Center Chose SMaRT Analytics
- Cost-Effective & High ROI: The platform paid for itself quickly by reducing manual labor and identifying financial inefficiencies.
- Seamless Meditech Integration: Provided instant access to hospital data without IT intervention.
- User-Friendly Interface: Designed for both financial and clinical teams, making data insights accessible to all.
- Exceptional Customer Support: The Six Sense team provides timely responses and ongoing collaboration to maximize value.
Conclusion
By implementing Six Sense Smart Analytics, McAlester Regional Health Center has transformed its financial and operational workflows, improving efficiency, profitability, and decision-making. The hospital now benefits from real-time financial insights, enhanced productivity tracking, and significant time savings—allowing leadership to focus on strategic growth and sustainability.
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