The Clinical Compass Plus desktop solution allows healthcare decision-makers to quickly and easily access, analyze, and present clinical information to pinpoint opportunities, reduce costs, and improve quality.

Easy, Accurate Clinical Performance Measurement and Improvement

Loaded with discharge data from virtually every hospital in the nation, Clinical Compass Plus supplies accurate clinical performance measurement with the simple touch of a button. This powerful software and database solution allows users to identify where variations in treatment or costs are occurring, and monitor resource utilization with severity-adjusted analysis.

Decision-makers can capitalize on these findings to improve quality of care, reduce costs related to complications and length of stay, and effectively compare efficiencies of care delivery by benchmarking against the best performing hospitals in the nation or to local peers.

"Apples-to-Apples" Analysis of Clinical Care and Costs

With Clinical Compass Plus, users can quickly access and analyze severity-adjusted clinical information at three levels:Diagnosis Related Group (DRG), service line, and overall hospital.

Clinical Compass Plus supplies over 50 different performance measures including average length of stay per DRG, cost and reimbursement per DRG, as well as complication and mortality rates for the specific hospitals of choice. These measures include a wealth of information ranging from qualitative and descriptive data to quantitative data such as charges and cost figures.

Determine Potential for New Product Development

The Clinical Compass Plus provides valuable intelligence to all players in the healthcare industry:

		Medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies — Clinical Compass Plus can be used to determine the potential for new products before investing valuable time and resources into research and development. This accurate information allows planners to evaluate markets for development and entry, and profile regional differences in clinical care in order to arm a sales team with actionable healthcare intelligence. Additionally, Clinical Compass Plus measures the efficacy of a product with actual hospital discharge data to evaluate a company's return on investment.
		Healthcare Consultants — Clinical Compass Plus is the perfect application for healthcare consultants for use in analyzing and retaining provider engagements—this solution provides the hospital-based insight needed to communicate performance improvement and cost reduction initiatives to provider clients.
		Health Plans and Insurance Companies — Health plans and insurance companies can use this flexible tool to analyze and improve the clinical performance of hospitals that provide care to their members. Key measures allow users to accurately profile providers for contract negotiation or inclusion in a plan network.

About the Data

The Clinical Compass Plus database contains the most recent data available from federal or state government sources, including Medicare claims and cost report data filed with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Every effort has been made to ensure the validity, integrity, and quality of the data contained in the software application.

All data are severity-adjusted using the Yale Refined-DRG Severity System modified with Ohio State to account for differences in patient severity and acuity. The data has also been wage and case-mix adjusted to account for unique hospital characteristics.

Clinical Compass Plus from HealthDataInsights—powerful clinical performance benchmarking from the leaders in strategic healthcare solutions.