Better integration of computerized physician order entry with data-mining ports, Dr. Godamunne predicts, will allow for much better attribution and finer parsing of the data. As the transparency increases, though, hospitalists will have to adapt to a new reality in which stronger analytical tools may point out individual outliers. And that level of detail, in turn, will require some hospitalists to justify why they’re different than their peers.
Even so, Roscoe says, he’s found that hospitalists are very open to using data to improve performance and that they make up a high percentage of CRIMSON users. “There isn’t a physician group that is in a better position to help drive this quality- and data-driven culture,” he says.
Bryn Nelson is a freelance medical writer in Seattle.
Physician Performance Aids
Company: The Advisory Board Company
Sample product: CRIMSON Continuum of Care
Claim: “Places credible, severity-adjusted performance profiles directly in the hands of physicians, enabling the hospital-physician collaboration needed to advance quality goals and secure cost savings.”
Number of users: More than 850 hospitals
Real-time data? No, but available as add-on service
To learn more: www.advisory.com/Technology/Crimson-Continuum-of-Care
Company: Panacea Developments
Sample product: Iodine
Claim: “An easy-to-use mobile system that analyzes a hospital’s sea of data for knowledge that physicians, case managers, and documentation specialists can act upon to improve length-of-stay, readmissions, and documentation.”
Number of users: More than 50 hospitals
Real-time data? Yes
To learn more: www.panaceadevelopments.com/iodine
Company: Truven Health
Sample product: CareDiscovery
Claim: “Provides powerful insights into a hospital’s or health system’s quality measures and resource utilization to support improvement with objective, fact-based information.”
Real-time data? No
Number of users: More than 3,000 users in 400 hospitals
To learn more: http://truvenhealth.com/products/carediscovery
Company: Ingenious Med
Sample product: Imagine
Claim: “A comprehensive analytics dashboard platform that provides actionable decision making data to optimize physician performance and revenue.”
Real-time data? Yes
Number of users: 25,000 total users (not separated by individual products)
To learn more: http://ingeniousmed.com/what-we-do/imagine