Outcomes Advisor Outcomes Advisor atat

What is What is Outcomes AdvisorOutcomes Advisor ??

A A report writing toolreport writing tool for care for care providers, quality directors, service providers, quality directors, service line managers, analysts line managers, analysts

A means of evaluating A means of evaluating clinical & clinical & economic outcomeseconomic outcomes for patients with for patients with select characteristicsselect characteristics

Outcomes AdvisorOutcomes Advisor FunctionalityFunctionality

Physician peer comparisonsPhysician peer comparisons

Resource utilization by departmentResource utilization by department Detailed clinical use by charge codeDetailed clinical use by charge code

Day of stay analysisDay of stay analysis Quality & clinical indicator trending,with Quality & clinical indicator trending,with

benchmarksbenchmarks

Dynamic “drilldown” selectionsDynamic “drilldown” selections

Direct links to patient detailed abstractsDirect links to patient detailed abstracts

Side by side patient population comparisonsSide by side patient population comparisons

Ad hoc/Custom reportingAd hoc/Custom reporting

What Does What Does Outcomes AdvisorOutcomes Advisor Offer?Offer?

Focused data subsets from Decision Focused data subsets from Decision SupportSupport

Standard, ad hoc and custom reportingStandard, ad hoc and custom reporting Detailed patient abstractsDetailed patient abstracts Data set comparisons: physicians, payors, Data set comparisons: physicians, payors,

any patient groups you defineany patient groups you define Patient qualification enginePatient qualification engine Ad hoc graphics Ad hoc graphics HTML formatted reports HTML formatted reports Over 100 predefined Outcome Indicators, Over 100 predefined Outcome Indicators,

plus ability to define personal indicatorsplus ability to define personal indicators

Benefits of Outcomes AdvisorBenefits of Outcomes Advisor

Minimizes need to download data Minimizes need to download data from TRENDSTAR to Excel or graphics from TRENDSTAR to Excel or graphics package for analysis or presentationspackage for analysis or presentations

Expands TRENDSTAR user communityExpands TRENDSTAR user community

without intensive user trainingwithout intensive user training

Increases access to needed dataIncreases access to needed data

Catalyst for more effective clinical Catalyst for more effective clinical dialogues dialogues

Standard Reports

Indicator Reports and

Custom Reports

Sample Standard Report – Flexible drill options, sorting, graphing, qualifying,

etc.

If user clicks on Product Line 3 – Hip and Knee …

Drill to 2nd level – in this case, Physician utilization for the service line. Can rank, graph on any selected column(s).

User can modify the report - For example:• filter out physicians with low volume

(i.e. fewer than 4 cases, etc.) • Choose to change values to per/case

Can graph on any column(s)

User can also modify the report by changing the rows (or drill path).

… In this case, we will add the APR-DRG Severity of illness to review physician utilization for similar severity ...

Now we can review the DRG average utilization organized by severity of illness. It may appear logical that patients

with higher severity have longer ALOS and higher Variable Cost / Case.

… If we drill into the 1 Minor cases ….

We can now review Physician utilization for patients with similar severity of illness.

… And if further patient detail is needed …

Can review the Patient Abstract for each of the selected

patients.

Categories Of Patient InfoAvailable in the Abstract

Service Item information available by

department and day of stay

Indicator Reports and

Custom Reports

If Standard Reports are not

enough, user can easily build

Custom Reports

Select Rows & Cols

and generate the report

.. In this simple example, top physician variances of ALOS and

Vol.

Can qualify any report (Standard or Custom) with up to 10 criteria.