In basketball, the “Sixth Man” comes off the bench to help the first team win a game. We adopted that name because of our desire to help healthcare teams better accomplish their goals.
6MC evolved out of a mid-1970's idea that the relationship between quality of healthcare and its associated cost was not a straight line. For those curious about quality and cost, the 1970's were largely an information-free era. No longer. Today's IT has conclusively demonstrated that both quality and its cost-to-achieve have an optimal value.
Today's performance metrics for hospitals are pretty good at answering "How am I doing?" If you're in a well-performing health system or hospital your metrics are likely very good. But for deciding next steps they may not be so helpful. Especially to answer "What do I do with this information?"
6MC has designed a platform that finds the "meaningful information" buried in both public and proprietary datasets. "Meaningful" is information that is accurate, easily understood, rapidly displayed, and supports both tactical and strategic decision making. It has a number of distinguishing features:
- It provides comparisons with any hospital or set of hospitals in the US, using 10+ years of historical data
- It can easily incorporate additional datasets of any size, both public and proprietary
- It divides data into five performance domains: outpatient, inpatient, finances, operations and quality
- It allows "best-in-group" comparisons and queries made "on-the-fly" by the user, at whatever level of aggregation desired, down to the raw value of a single measure
To learn more about 6MC please see The Team page.