What You Should Know:
– Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc. launches a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients.
– The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its solutions beginning in 2021.
Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc., a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, announced the launch of a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients on a national scale.
Innovation Lab to Drive Industry-Leading Quality and Patient Experience
By combining industry-leading care quality tools RUSH’s Center for Quality, Safety and Value Analytics has developed with R1’s platform, the Innovation Lab will deliver new and innovative solutions focused on value-based care and advanced analytics.
The Innovation Lab partnership brings together RUSH’s proven ability to develop unique, quality tools that help solve the new and changing standards of care along with R1’s technology-enabled, systematic operations that provide reliable improvements to the patient experience. Via the Innovation Lab, R1 will not only invest resources to develop new solution tools, but also make existing tools available to other health systems across the country.
Availability
The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its solutions beginning in 2021.
“R1 is enabling RUSH’s mission to help improve the quality of care for all patients, be it at RUSH, or elsewhere,” said Dr. Ranga Krishnan, CEO of Rush University Health System. “RUSH has used technology as a part of its quality improvement journey, and these tools have helped us earn distinctions such as 5 stars for quality in the CMS hospital rating system; the #1 rank in the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study; and designation as a nationally recognized Honor Roll hospital by U.S. News and World Report.”
