FAQs, tips and use cases
Click the links below for some tips to keep in mind as you're working in Clinical Analytics:
Name objects
We recommend developing facility-wide standards for naming Scorecards, Templates, and Reports in Clinical Analytics so users have common language to refer to when naming or searching for these items. Typically, we see naming conventions including the creator's initials, a summary of the object's purpose, and/or abbreviations for the profiles, measures, or group-bys included. By extension, these conventions typically also include guidelines for sharing or otherwise making work public. Consult your facility's Clinical Analytics Administrator regarding existing guidelines or to get the conversation started. See Template naming conventions for more ideas.
Use profiles
Profiles exist as global objects to be used across your scorecard in multiple sections. Population inclusion and exclusion parameters can also be established in the Settings of most sections (and saved as Section-specific templates), but these settings are not portable across sections, so the parameters must be reset for each section. We recommend Customizing profiles when defining your patient population, keeping in mind that section parameter settings, and the related Section-Specific Templates, are designed for on-the-fly analytics to refine your broader Profile as you dig into your data. Contact Support if you have further questions or would like a demonstration of these complimentary features in Clinical Analytics.
Search Documentation
If you ever aren't sure what a feature in Clinical Analytics is for or how a measure is calculated, check Documentation. You can reach Documentation by clicking the Documentation tab of the Home page or by clicking the Documentation link in the top right corner of the screen anywhere in Clinical Analytics. Documentation was created to be searchable, so once you are in Documentation, simply enter the name of a section, measure, or other feature into the search bar at the top of any page in Documentation to be taken to a list of resources containing similar keywords. As always, contact Support if you're still not sure.
Use cases
To get you started on your analysis journey with Clinical Analytics, check out one of the following sample analyses. We will be adding more use case examples frequently, so be sure to check back often.
- Template naming conventions
- Suggestions and ideas to consider when naming your scorecard templates or section-specific templates in Clinical Analytics
- Use case - Detail Charge Export
- Understanding the purpose of the Detail Charge Export functionality when Export data
- Use case - NDC analytics
- An example of the new NDC and CPT code Profile filters
- Use case - Coding analytics
- A walk-through of a sample analysis using the Scorecards Coding Analytics section
- Use case - Nursing Unit analysis
- Using the Nursing Unit Scorecard to analyze patient data
If there is a sample analysis you would like see, contact Support.
FAQs
See the FAQs page for answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
