Report Central

What It Is

Recombinant Report Central is a proven clinical intelligence application that incorporates a report server, data security layer, and packaged reports based on the quality reporting model built for Partners HealthCare.

The reporting application provides healthcare providers with timely and valuable dashboards to help them boost their quality metrics and deliver consistent, high-quality patient care.

Specifically, it is designed to help providers achieve superior outcomes by establishing reliable reporting metrics and an effective process for patient interventions, disease management, and clinical decision support.

In addition, through Report Central, providers uncover ineffective electronic health record (EHR) workflows, such as free-text entries of structured information, to adopt best practices that increase patient safety.

The report library includes packaged reports for chronic disease management, preventative medicine, medical specialties, in-patient/hospital care, operations, and ad-hoc queries.

Applications of Recombinant Report Central include:

• Monitoring P4P contract metrics
• Public reporting measure improvement (HEDIS, Leapfrog, Joint Commission core measures, Physician Quality Incentives)
• Increased patient safety/Reducing risks (medication recalls, inappropriate prescribing, missed diagnosis, data quality, fraud)
• Quantitative measures for physician incentive programs
• EHR adoption and utilization tracking
• Monitoring and improvement of the consistency of care
• Capacity planning and optimization

How It Works

Recombinant Report Central offers multi-use quality reports for both aggregate provider performance and individual practitioner dashboards.

To provide accurate and inclusive views of clinical data, the solution expands its quality data aggregation beyond billing and claims data to include laboratory results, patient registration, electronic health record content and data from in-patient applications such as medication reconciliation and eMAR applications.

Reports include:

• Web-based reports that provide practical views of patient information for decision support and quality improvement workflows
• Quality dashboards that allow groups to understand current performance by individuals and among peers, including providers, clinics, hospitals, and external benchmarks
• Scorecards that deliver concise views of metrics and trends to allow providers to focus on areas for improving individual performance and provide input to board reviews to approach system improvements

In addition, the solution provides both a physician friendly and HIPAA secure Web portal for viewing reports and dashboards as well as a subscription to a physician reviewed library of reports.

Reports can be extended, added, and secured by team members without a large investment in an enterprise BI platform through the Web administration interface and Crystal Reports developer tools. The report library also can be integrated into leading BI platforms such as Cognos, Business Objects, and OBIEE.

Features & Benefits

Enhances quality of data and analysis

• Embeds medical concept logic into reports creating accurate population-based views
• Pre-built reports and knowledge base allow physicians during the design process to focus on high-value reviews of reports instead of conveying basic medical logic
• Offers more inclusive and timely views by including data beyond billing and claims
• Gives providers ability to manage and control their own data and not rely on connectivity to third-party hosted analytics vendors
• Reduces manual chart review processes, reducing staff time and potential errors in determining quality or taking action on a safety recommendation like a medication recall

Improves patient care

• Enhances quality improvement and patient safety efforts by allowing physicians and quality improvement teams to rapidly generate patient lists with clinical information for improvement and quality analysis
• Offers ability to improve chronic disease management (CDM) programs by providing precise, up-to-date clinical data and eliminates wasteful chronic disease costs from expensive reactionary treatment cycles. Note: Chronic diseases account for 75 percent of the nations health care expenditures
• Improves practice productivity through closed-loop electronic health record (EHR) workflows by allowing providers to access patient records and focus on areas of risk and opportunity without manually gathering data

Achieves superior results on P4P and public reporting metrics

• Aggregates data to generate reports applicable for meeting Joint Commission accreditation requirements, reaccredidation metrics, reimbursement for Medicare/Medicaid, developing strong client base, and building positive reputations
• Offers providers and associations visibility into their achievement of goals to be able to address standards for service and rewards for compliance (P4P)
• Presents actionable views and utilities for executing quality improvement campaigns to contact patients via the phone, mail, or in advance of office visits for the populations whose care is resulting in lower performance scores

Improves clinical operations

• Improves provider workflows by analyzing general administrative inefficiencies (long wait times, resource capacity gaps, etc.) to allow assessments that can lead to administrative stewardship, fluid work flows, and quality patient service
• Reduces and simplifies load on mission-critical EHR applications by consolidating requests, making it easier to create frequent requests that reduce the latency of data in applications

Getting Started

For a demonstration of the Recombinant Report Central application or for more information on how we can create a customized quality reporting solution for your organization, please contact us.

Resources

Quality Reporting in Primary Care
A Case Study at Partners HealthCare
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Board Level Reporting
Expediting the Process of Board Level Reporting Through Automating Core Measures
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Based on a successful enterprise solution at Partners Healthcare
In 2004 Recombinant Data was engaged by the Quality Data Management (QDM) team led by Dr. Jonathan Einbinder at Partners HealthCare to build a solution to meet the needs of enterprise reporting challenges across the delivery network. The resulting software included a data warehouse called the Quality Data Warehouse and a reporting system, called Report Central, designed to achieve the goals of delivering consistent, high quality patient care.

The applications were built through collaboration between Partners Clinical and IT teams and Recombinant. In December 2007 the groups entered into an agreement to make the custom software applications available for other hospitals and integrated delivery networks. Through this agreement Partners continues to use and expand the capabilities of the reporting systems while Recombinant has packaged the software and markets, sells, and supports the packaged offering at sites seeking to achieve similar patient care objectives.

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