Outpatient Diagnostic encounters

The notes below detail specific features of Outpatient Diagnostics encounters beyond typical Inpatient encounters in Clinical Analytics.

Profile types

To create an Outpatient Diagnostics profile, select the profile type called “Internal Encounters – Outpatient Diagnostics and ASC” from the Profile Type dropdown.

Details

Additional columns for grouping by and filtering on include:

• Principal & Secondary CPT code
• Principal & Secondary APC codes

Clinical Case summary

Demographics tab

The Demographics section of the outpatient Clinical Case Summary includes different views based on the patient type. Now you can see:

• Whether the patient was admitted as an inpatient (yes/no)
• Service Day of the Week
• Service Location
• Patient Type

DRGs, diagnosis, and procedures

This tab displays the APC grouping(s) that the patient’s case fell under.

Detail services

The Detail Services tab has been reformatted for quicker information lookup and ease of access to information. This tab also has new features, including the ability to roll up data to the CDM level.

Utilization

This section is omitted for outpatient encounters.

Quality and Safety, patient satisfaction

Only measures that are applicable for a given patient type appear.