Analytics Are Key For Network's Population Health
By Karla Paris
Comparative analytics shape best practices for network of health care sites.
Kentucky Health Center Network (KHCN) announced it has selected i2i Systems, a population health management and analytics provider to improve health outcomes across its Health Center Network. Implementation of i2i Systems’ PopIQ software will be used to aggregate de-identified patient data across multiple organizations, which allows for comparative analysis among KHCN and its clinic sites.
The information will help KHCN identify promising and best practices that could be replicated in other health centers. It also allows users to generate reports and dashboards across a virtually unlimited number of measures and indicators.
PopIQ is a cloud-based strategic analytics solution for Population Health Management on a broad scale, delivering on the promise of organization level, network level, state level – even global level – health intelligence. Reports can be produced in seconds, equipping network leaders with real-time intelligence regarding the current health and proactive care opportunity for its patient population. This data is refreshed every 24 hours. Also, it supports clinic-to-clinic, hospital-to-hospital, community-to-community, and even state-to-state comparisons.
By incorporating a “light” approach to data management, PopIQ leverages the latest cloud technologies. It extracts only vital data elements from health information technology systems to optimize data analysis efficiency and provides friendly analytic drill-down functionality.
Kentucky’s Community Health Centers are part of a national movement of non-profit, community-directed providers of primary care, which include pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, dentistry, and behavioral health.
Community Health Centers are open to all patients, insured or not, but the centers’ strive to make health care available to all by removing common barriers to care such as financial, geographic, language, cultural, and other barriers.
The Kentucky Health Center Network (KHCN) is the membership organization of Kentucky’s Health Centers. Its mission is to sustain Kentucky Community Health Centers and the centers’ capacity to provide quality patient services, to institute best practices, and to pursue continuous improvement.
Reports can be produced in seconds, equipping network leaders with real-time intelligence about the current health and proactive care opportunity for their patient population. And PopIQ refreshes this data every 24 hours. PopIQ supports clinic-to-clinic, hospital-to-hospital, community-to-community and even state-to-state comparisons.According to Jennifer NeSmith, chief executive officer at KHCN, Kentucky’s Community Health Centers utilize eight different Electronic Health Records (EHRs). “EHR use by KHCN members increases the effectiveness and quality of the services delivered to patients,” said NeSmith. “It also provides a powerful opportunity to utilize shared analytics to best leverage aggregate health data for improvement of patient care outcomes and pay-for-performance initiatives.”
KHCN plans to fully deploy PopIQ in each of its member Health Center organizations, with information provided from its 161 patient care sites. The project has an expected completion date of May 2015.PopIQ is a cloud-based strategic analytics solution for Population Health Management on a broad scale, delivering on the promise of organization level, network level, state level—even global level—health intelligence.PopIQ is a cloud-based strategic analytics solution for Population Health Management on a broad scale, delivering on the promise of organization level, network level, state level—even global level—health intelligence.PopIQ is a cloud-based strategic analytics solution for Population Health Management on a broad scale, delivering on the promise of organization level, network level, state level—even global level—health intelligence.
SOURCE: PRWeb