Getting the Most from Your Ambulatory EHR Data

Ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) systems collect immense volumes of detailed patient data. However, when trapped in an EHR that was designed primarily for data capture, that information doesn’t have the opportunity to live up to its analytical potential. But when transformed into meaningful information, it can help drive better informed, and ultimately more successful decisions.

Dimensional Insight’s Ambulatory Operations analytical solution helps you gain better insight into your ambulatory operations and patient population by organizing data extracted from the EHR to provide both meaningful summary level information and the ability to quickly get to the underlying details so you can uncover opportunities and problems, and quickly respond with appropriate actions.

Since governance and collaboration are built into Dimensional Insight’s Diver Platform, you’re able to closely control the process of defining and deploying new information while still including the right people and perspectives in the conversation. And information from Ambulatory Operations can be combined with other Dimensional Insight healthcare analytics products to create custom analytics solutions for modeling populations, assessing provider practice patterns and more.

700+ curated industry standard KPIs and benchmark data

Dimensional Insight’s Outcomes Advisor provides up-to-date and actionable data on outcomes measures and KPIs for your hospital or health system, as defined by CMS. These include those KPIs used in a variety of pay-for-performance programs.

Outcomes Advisor provides quality managers, hospital administrators, and providers with a succinct, intuitive, and actionable perspective on outcomes for a variety of ALOS, mortality, readmissions, and EDAC measures, and a number of IQI, PDI, and PSI measures.

Information is available through dashboards, reports, and ad hoc analytics. Users can view key metrics and then simply click on any number or graphical view to answer questions about the underlying detail.

More than 600 off-the-shelf KPIs

When patients visit your emergency department, they need to be treated safely and effectively. Anything else just adds on to what is already a fraught experience. The more streamlined and consumer-friendly your ED is, the more likely patients will have a positive experience and trust your hospital for their families’ care.

When you think about improving your ED operations, it’s important to look at not just your processes on how you treat patients and ensure quality and safety, but also your waste or moments when patients are left waiting—leading to patient frustration, higher left without being seen (LWBS) numbers, and worse patient outcomes.

Dimensional Insight’s Emergency Department Advisor helps you make sense of your wealth of data to make the right improvements to increase revenue, improve patient satisfaction scores, and improve patient outcomes.

Laboratory Advisor improves processes and service

The world of healthcare is becoming increasingly complex, and medical laboratories are no exception. The increased demand for healthcare means tight budgets and high workloads. Regulatory changes mean organizations need to continually adapt to keep up. As a result of these innovations, healthcare is deploying increasingly advanced equipment and automation. This generates large amounts of data and diverse sources that diagnostics and business operations can use. For many microbiology, clinical chemistry, and pathology labs, it is difficult to put these data and sources to work.

Unlocking Your Data

This is where Dimensional Insight’s Laboratory Advisor comes in. It extracts data from your laboratory information system (LIS) and integrates it with other sources, from finance to production. This way, laboratories can easily access specific information and substantiated figures. Diagnostic centers increasingly rely on Laboratory Advisor for insight and quality assurance. Laboratory Advisor is a powerful and user-friendly platform that lets you manage and analyze large quantities of data. It unlocks the power of your current LIS and combines your LIS data with business tools, such as those used by your finance and HR departments. This results in considerable new insights for both management and medical scientists. Furthermore, the platform unburdens application managers, allowing them to quickly create new reports without the time-consuming queries of the LIS.

Complete and timely views into physician performance

Provider Advisor, powered by the KLAS award-winning Diver Platform™, can help provide a consolidated view of physician performance. It also enables you to achieve compliance, improve practice patterns, and motivate physicians to excel.

Motivate Performance Improvements

Motivating physicians to change behaviors requires that physicians trust the data used in their reviews. Provider Advisor enables the physician executive and physician to collaboratively review recent cases and dive from summary metrics to underlying details— down to the patient encounter level. The ability to filter by patient relationship—e.g., look only at attending physician roles—promotes constructive dialogue. And specific cases can be easily excluded, where warranted.

Control Costs and Capture Revenue

There are an array of special factors that make managing an Intensive Care Unit challenging. ICU Advisor helps monitor all areas of patient care from arrival to unit discharge and all the charges associated to deliver care. Easy to use dashboards can display key metrics such as daily arrival volumes, origination of arrivals, returns, and charges. And, ICU Advisor can integrate data from a variety of data sources like EHRs. Having easy access to information results in improved care, reduced costs and increased efficiency.

A powerful tool for helping hospitals in their efforts to reduce patient infections

Preventing and controlling patient infection is a critical concern in any hospital, with a strict set of operational rules and procedures being applied to minimize the risk of infection and maximize patient care. Infection Prevention analytics can integrate data collected from microbiological, clinical laboratories, patient care, EHRs, and other critical data sources. Infection Prevention analytics can aide in providing a detailed historical perspective down to the individual patient level, with the tools to predict and alert for potential infection occurrences.

Give your operating room directors timely access to the operational, financial, and clinical metrics they need to manage operating room facilities at peak performance. Surgery Advisor, powered by the award-winning Diver Platform, empowers you to optimize operating room efficiency.

More than 100 pre-built KPIs to help assess performance against targets

Your revenue cycle is integral to the financial strength and sustainability of your hospital or health system. It is also critical to your mission to serve your patients and community. Managing and monitoring it requires a level of vigilance that’s only possible with reliable, well-defined and timely information. That information can help to continuously pinpoint your best opportunities to improve processes, stay ahead of emerging trends, and maximize cash flow. But when it’s spread across multiple systems and applications, each with their own reporting and analytics tools, the picture is anything but clear. Dimensional Insight’s Revenue Cycle Advisor helps you take on that challenge to get the most from all of your available information.  

Control Costs and Capture Revenue

Healthcare inventory has a set of unique challenges, including ordering and delivering goods to providers and patients across departments and locations; managing external suppliers, insurance companies, and group purchasing organizations; and adhering to compliance statues. Each of these entities generates a data stream captured in automated inventory management systems, ERPs, EHRs, and other key data sources. Inventory Advisor assists Directors of Materials Management and VPs of Supply Chain Management by integrating all this data to track the metrics that really matter. This results in reduced costs and increased efficiency.

Advanced Financial Metrics

Minimize your reliance on IT support for data extraction and report generation by automatically bringing your financial data together from stand-alone accounting systems, payroll, time & attendance systems and more.

Self-service Is Really Here.

With access to all the underlying detail, you’ll make forensic finance look like a walk in the park. Find deviations against budget, flex budget, forecasts or other benchmarks. Uncover headcount inefficiencies and cost overruns with just a few clicks and no additional “asks” from IT.