FAQs
Here are some commonly asked questions about Clinical Analytics; click the question to display the answer.
I like having benchmarks, but what if my patients are sicker? Can I rely on the benchmarks to accurately reflect that?YES! All benchmark values are risk-adjusted according to the selected Grouping type of your Analysis Profile, so your patients are being compared to other patients in the same Diagnosis-Related Group, so we can assume similar resource usage. See Benchmark calculations for more information about how we ensure your analysis is making apples-to-apples comparisons for robust conclusions.
PSI-90 is a composite score developed and calculated by AHRQ; this score is one component of VBP reimbursement values. PSI-90 is a smoothed, risk-adjusted, weighted average of 10 individual PSIs (Patient Safety Indicators). AHRQ currently does not offer software to calculate PSI-90 based on ICD-10 coding because the risk and harm factors in the PSI-90 algorithm are based on historical data and ICD-10 has not been used widely enough to provide adequate historical data for these calculations. After the ICD-10 software is available from AHRQ, it will be made available in Clinical Analytics for you to estimate your PSI-90 score. Keep in mind that final PSI-90 scores are determined after-the-fact, so any real-time calculations are estimates and may not be exact. See the Downloadable fact sheets page for links to more PSI resources.
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- FAQs: Clinical Analytics software and applications
- A brief overview of the Clinical Analytics suite
- See this in documentation: About Syntellis software
- FAQs: Scorecards
- The basics of the Clinical Analytics Scorecards application
- See this in documentation: Scorecards
- FAQs: Outpatient data
- Incorporating your outpatient data into your Clinical Analytics environment
- See this in documentation: Outpatient Module
- FAQs: PPE reporting and workflow
- The basics of the Clinical Analytics Physician Practice Evaluation application
- See this in documentation: Physician Practice Evaluation (PPE)
- FAQs: Clinical Analytics for Physicians
- Tips and tricks for physician users in Clinical Analytics
- See this in documentation: Physician Practice Evaluation (PPE)
- FAQs: Profiles
- The basics of customizing Profiles in Clinical Analytics
- See this in documentation: Profiles and Customize profiles
- FAQs: Measures
- Measures available to you in Clinical Analytics
- See this in documentation: Measure definitions
- FAQs: Benchmarking and Risk Adjustment methodology
- An overview of benchmark and risk adjustment calculations in Clinical Analytics
- See this in documentation: Benchmark calculations
- FAQs: Physician attribution
- The basics of Clinical Analytics's Physician Attribution methodology
- See this in documentation: Clinical Analytics Attributed Physician
- FAQs: GPCS
- The basics of 3M™ Grouper Plus Content Services
- Set up new users
- How to set up new Clinical Analytics users in System Administration
- See this in documentation: Users tab
- FAQs: User permissions
- An overview of the permissions available to each user type in Clinical Analytics
- See this in documentation: User permissions
- APR-DRGs v MS-DRGs
- An explanation of the differences between these grouping type options for inpatient profiles
- See this in documentation: Grouping types
- Costs and Charges Measure calculations
- An explanation of the Charges and Costs Detail section, including the math behind the Total row
- See this in documentation: Charge and Cost Measure calculations
