Case Study: Yale New Haven Health saves $150 million with Strata Decision Technology

How Merging Financial and Clinical Data Saved Yale New Haven Health $150 Million

Yale New Haven Health, a 2,409-bed Connecticut health system, needed a better way to understand the true cost of care as it shifted toward value-based care. Its legacy mainframe-based cost accounting system was too slow and difficult to use, and leaders lacked a trusted “source of truth” that could combine financial, operational, and clinical data to help clinicians and finance teams reduce variation, waste, and inefficiency. The organization turned to Strata Decision Technology and its StrataJazz platform to address this challenge.

Strata Decision Technology implemented StrataJazz to merge cost accounting data with Epic EHR and clinical quality data, giving Yale New Haven Health real-time, longitudinal insights into patient populations, episodes of care, and quality variation indicators. The result was more than $150 million in savings, including $12.4 million in cumulative savings from improved sickle cell disease care, reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia cases with about $700,000 in combined labor and non-labor savings, and a more than 40% reduction in readmissions for one patient population. The platform also improved collaboration between clinical and finance leaders and helped drive care redesign across the health system.

Yale New Haven Health

Vincent Tammaro

Executive Vice President and CFO