• Benchmarking Data Integrity
• Integrated Cost and Quality
• Unique Reporting
• HMC KnowledgeWeb

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About The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.

Our Partners succeed in hospital performance improvement because of the strengths of our benchmarking program. Specifically, HMC excels at the following:

Benchmarking Data Integrity and Simplicity

• Our benchmarking data is obtained from your decision support systems, making it is easier for you to prepare and easier for your managers to understand when they have questions.
• HMC takes the lead role in data "scrubbing" so your data preparation effort is minimal and our analysis is cleaner.
• HMC reviews data handling with every critical manager to ensure they understand the benchmarking process and believe the results.

Integrated Cost and Quality

• HMC's functional and clinical cost benchmarks are integrated seamlessly into our quality benchmarks and dashboards, so you see exactly how much poor quality is costing your facility.
• The HMC QuadrantOne Benchmark integrates cost, productivity, quality, utilization, and budget data so you can see the entire picture of your organization's health, benchmarked against your peers and over time.

Unique Reporting

• HMC's reports are unique in the industry for their summaries of your cost position and its implications for your performance improvement efforts. We present the results to you personally to ensure maximum learning and impact.
• With over 100 operational categories, each with 10-15 subcategories, the Healthcare Magagement Council provides the clearest, most detailed, and most accurate data window of any product in the field.
• HMC's budget modeling and drill-down data tools come standard with our products.

Best Practice Exchange & the HMC KnowledgeWeb

• Moving to action is hard work.
• HMC’s Best Practice Exchange and KnowledgeWeb can help you move from data analysis to tangible results via breakthrough online communities that generate, capture and share performance improvement ideas.
• HMC’s Best Practice Exchange is organized by topic and contains the Best Practices actually in use instead of idealized theoretical models.
• The Best Practice Exchange goes a step further enabling you to collaborate virtually with peers all over the country by adding your own ideas and commenting on other’s practice.
• The HMC KnowledgeWeb is a hub of topic-focused online communities, supported by collaborative activities such as a webconferences and a rich library of benchmarks, documents and results.