1. Catalog
  2. Reducing Unwarranted Care Variation to Improve Hea ...
Reducing Unwarranted Care Variation to Improve Healthcare Cost and Quality: Lessons Learned from Two Health Systems - On Demand 2025
Inside real-world hospital networks, small practice differences add up to missed value. In this on-demand course, you will identify unwarranted variation with systemwide analytics, reduce waste through standardized, clinician-led protocols, and optimize resource stewardship without sacrificing outcomes. You will measure process and clinical results, evaluate financial impact, and leave ready to design a scalable playbook for cost and quality gains.
Create Account
Availability
On-Demand
Expires on May 06, 2028
Credit Offered
0.75 CME Credit
0.75 ABIM-MOC Point
0.75 Participation Credit
  • Overview
  • Faculty
  • Accreditation
  • Recommended
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, learners should be able to:
  1. Identify Unwarranted Care Variation: Understand the concepts of warranted versus unwarranted care variation and the impact of reducing unwarranted variation on patient outcomes and healthcare costs.
  2. Apply Data-Driven Stewardship Techniques: Learn how to leverage centralized data platforms and analytics to identify key areas for cost savings and quality improvement within a multi-site hospital system.
  3. Optimize Resource Stewardship in Key Areas: Explore targeted stewardship protocols to reduce unnecessary costs without compromising care quality.
  4. Measure and Evaluate Improvement Efforts: Understand the importance of process and outcome metrics, and learn how to track and assess the impact of variation reduction and stewardship initiatives on patient care and financial outcomes.
Faculty
  • Rajender Agarwal
  • Alya Ahsan

Faculty Disclosures
The individuals in control of content for this activity have no relevant relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to disclose unless listed here. Any relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

 

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Credit Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75  MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

IOS App Download Powered By