Four Major Academic Medical Centers Go Live With Carefx
Carefx, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions, announced today that four major academic medical centers have gone live with Physician Insight Plus™, part of the Carefx Performance Management Dashboard suite developed in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic. The dashboards access, track, analyze and compare performance on clinical and operational outcomes, safety and utilizatio
- (1888PressRelease) July 27, 2011 - The dashboards access, track, analyze and compare performance on clinical and operational outcomes, safety and utilization.
University of North Carolina Hospitals, University of Washington Medical Center, The University of Kansas Hospital and University of Kentucky Hospital — all members of the Oak Brook, Illinois-based University HealthSystem Consortium — have implemented Physician Insight Plus to compare their physicians' performance both internally and to selected UHC cohorts within the Consortium. The transparency of the UHC comparative data allows academic medical centers to identify best-practices and more effectively collaborate with other Consortium members on performance benchmarks.
"We wanted to put comprehensive, transparent data in the hands of our clinicians in an easy to understand fashion that gives them the opportunity to continuously compare and improve their performance," said Glen F. Spivak, MBA, vice president, Operational Efficiency, UNC Hospitals. "Physician Insight Plus allows us to easily and efficiently distribute data throughout the enterprise with minimal IT resources, enabling clinicians to monitor and manage their progress and improve patient care."
Physician Insight Plus reveals relationships between operational and quality performance in a single intuitive view, allowing users to select from multiple cohorts or product lines to benchmark cost and quality performance. Physicians can drill down to detailed comparisons and case-level data to measure their performance on Length of Stay (LOS); Hospital Cost; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicators; Readmission Rate and Mortality.
"Data serves as the foundation of our clinical quality and performance improvement programs," said Lee A. Norman, M.D., MHS, MBA, vice president, chief medical officer, The University of Kansas Hospital. "The Physician Insight Plus dashboard functions as my primary tool for quick, actionable data-mining and allows me to track, analyze and compare performance across the organization."
The dashboard also provides chief medical officers with the ability to address physician attribution and to identify best practices to improve quality, utilization and to contribute to meeting regulatory mandates of Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE).
"Using the BI innovations pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, Carefx is pleased to provide academic medical center executives and clinicians the tools to monitor, evaluate and improve clinical performance," said Andrew Hurd, CEO, Carefx. "The ability to compare performance with peers and to identify best practices on a risk-adjusted basis is the first step towards improving outcomes and achieving accountable care."
To learn more about our Performance Management & Improvement solutions, visit www.carefx.com.
In healthcare solutions, Harris provides enterprise intelligence solutions and services for government and commercial customers — including systems integration, intelligent infrastructure, interoperability, imaging, and other IT solutions. A leader in federal healthcare IT integration, Harris products, systems and services improve healthcare outcomes by assuring that critical medical and benefits information is delivered with security and privacy to the right person, on the right device, at the point of care.
About Carefx
Carefx, a subsidiary of Harris Corporation, supports healthcare organizations in achieving their vision of advancing the quality and safety of patient care delivery through its suite of interoperable workflow and analytics solutions. The Carefx solution suite streamlines and simplifies clinical and business workflow and connects care providers to the information they need - where, when, and how they need it. By managing care transitions and information gaps between diverse systems, departments and facilities, crucial patient information is delivered with speed, efficiency and logic. Carefx supports more than 800 hospitals, health systems, and health information exchanges (HIEs) across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.carefx.com, or contact Carefx at (480) 833-5010 or by email at info ( @ ) carefx dot com dot
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.
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