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Hospitals
(inpatient)
Recombinant helps hospitals deploy clinical data
warehouse and reporting systems for tracking quality performance and
improvement. The many pressures both for maintaining safety and public
reporting requirements for accreditation at in patient medical
facilities
requires a 360 degree view of how patients are being cared for through
views of data for physicians and administrators to consistently improve
patient care at their facilities.
Board and leading
indicators reporting
Hospitals have a number of specialized vendors and
clinical systems that provide information to quality departments about
performance. Consolidating and standardizing this information into
concise and actionable views in a centralized system can be a major
challenge. Types of data included in printed board reports, quality
dashboards, or balanced score cards vary including core measures,
patient satisfaction/Press Ganey scores, departmental measures like
surgical quality, specific state mandated DPH reporting guidelines,
third party employer funded organizations like Leapfrog, utilization
rates, ED wait times, ALOS average length of stay, and many more.
Seeing more information is less critical than seeing information in a
way that helps management teams to focus on areas of improvement and
reward teams for high performance. Comparing groups and providing
information to each team at the appropriate level across institutions,
clinics, and providers makes it even more of a challenge to present
information in a meaningful way.
Recombinant helps hospitals to organize this
information into a warehouse of indicators that can be used to generate
both printed reports and reports visible through web based portals. Our
team includes experts with experience managing hospital clinical
decision support teams that can help structure a data warehouse and
clinical intelligence projects. The Report Central report library and
Data Trust schema help to support this mission with key capabilities
that have been deployed at other institutions to solve their challenges
with reporting key indicators.
Improving core measures visibility
and performance
Collecting data for Joint Commission core measures
reporting often results in high abstracting costs and low visibility
into current performance on measures. While the goal of achieving high
performance scores that drive patient safety it is difficult to manage
these without accurate and timely measurements. The current process for
reporting includes a long process that makes it hard to take action in
time to improve results before they are reported. Often six to nine
months
elapse between a patient encounter and when a measure is later visible
to the hospital based on that encounter. A clinical data warehouse and
analysis solution for core measures can reduce that time while
improving the process both for collecting data and executing
improvement campaigns.
Capabilities:
• Reduce the level of effort for
abstractors by automating chart reviews through natural language
processing to find and highlight content relevant to measures quickly
within unstructured and structured patient records to support core
measures abstractors.
• Automate workflows to eliminate paper
based collection of data and focus teams on the electronic capture of
key information.
• Process collected data in parallel to
benchmarking organizations like UHC and Premier to reduce the latency
for viewing current results so that actions can be taken within a
reporting period.
• Establish profiles of individual teams
and physicians to identify where improvement and best practices are
being
• Maintain up to date logic for
calculating measures as they change
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Key Benefits to Hospitals
• Improve results in publicly reported
Joint Commission core measures (AMI, CHF, SCIP, PN)
• Increase patient safety and consistency
of care
• Improve management of costs and
resources
• Reduce average length of stay (ALOS)
• Collect and integrate best practices
into workflows
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