Healthcare data has immense value to healthcare facilities and systems to provide performance metrics and analysis of their patient encounters and outcomes. NewVolt has worked with healthcare statisticians to implement standard analytics and custom analytics of large volumes of patient data.
Through a partnership with SpeedTrack, NewVolt developed a data management and analytics platform for the Hospital Quality Institute (a division of the California Hospital Association).
The platform takes patient encounter data from HQI members and provides dashboards and statistical insights based on complicated quality measures and peer group comparisons.
The platform draws from numerous data sources and healthcare authorities to provide a comprehensive view of hospital quality. Starting with ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, demographic information, and other information about the patient encounter, NewVolt derives many measures, such as:
Data needs context. NewVolt focused heavily on developing comparative analytics that allow individual hospitals and systems to compare their patient encounter data and statistics with aggregate comparison groups. State-wide comparisons and regional comparisons give hospitals benchmarks to compare and contrast the performance of their facilities.
NewVolt implemented AHRQ quality indicators like Patient Safety (PSI), Inpatient Quality (IQI), Pediatric Quality (PDI), and the HAC Reduction program to give HQI member hospitals further standardized analytics into their patient encounter data.
There is growing interest in analyzing healthcare data across various demographic and socioeconomic groups. NewVolt developed a generic framework for HQI hospitals to filter and analyze their patient encounter data by cross-sections like Race, Age, Ethnicity, Sex, CMS Age Group, Patient Disposition, and more.
Analysis like the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) also gives hospitals insights into their patient encounters related to factors like problems with homelessness, problems related to employment, and problems with literacy.
There is extensive work still to be done in this area and NewVolt continues to work with experts in this field like HQI and SpeedTrack to develop novel ways of investigating these types of healthcare disparities.
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