Software Overview
Functionality
- Produces executive-level dashboards for summarizing clinical, financial, and market performance
- Rapidly generates, sorts, filters, graphs, and trends data in presentation-quality format
- Allows comparison to a variety of norms and benchmarks: national, census region, state, hospital discharge range, urban/rural, teaching status, critical access, and Thomson Reuters Top 100 hospitals
- Easily customizes service line definitions as well as payer and physician groupings
- Performs dynamic analysis (user can update data periods in an existing analysis and quickly regenerate previously constructed reports)
- Drills-down to the diagnosis, procedure, and patient level
- Tests for statistical significance using confidence levels of 95% and 75% to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities
- Creates PDF and CSV files for ease of report distribution and customization
- Provides online access to evidence-based guidelines developed by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Applications
- Clinical resource management and quality improvement
- Physician credentialing and reappointment
- Knowledge-based managed care contracting and payer assessment
- Provider network evaluation and monitoring
- Strategic planning and competitor profiling
Key Features
- User-friendly interface
- Fully-integrated graphics package complete with control and comparison charts
- Comprehensive help system
- Severity, Intensity, and Complexity Model (SIC Model) for comprehensive adjustment of patient characteristics including age and number of significant CCs to properly assess differences in charges, costs, and length of stay
- Risk-adjusted expected rates of mortality, complications, and readmissions using binary logistic regression