Health Catalyst

Technical

The Health Catalyst Pop Analyzer™ application is a visually-oriented application that allows users to define populations quickly, without using sophisticated or customized SQL coding. Through rapid ad-hoc analysis capabilities, Pop Analyzer enables organizations to reduce analyst workload and increase analytics productivity. Analysts can leverage Pop Analyzer’s reusable elements such as value sets and populations to improve data governance and consistency.

Organizations can also use Pop Analyzer to author reusable population definitions that can be used for analytics initiatives in other applications, including feasibility analysis for research opportunities.

The Challenge

Health systems that have acquired ambulatory care practices—and independent ambulatory practices alike—face tremendous financial pressures and challenges to financial sustainability. If you’re an ambulatory care leader, you’re looking to improve the efficiency of the services you provide and find cost savings without negatively impacting patient outcomes, the community, or the integrity of the organization. Yet it can be difficult to access data that brings actionable insights to inform decisions to improve patient access, panel management, provider productivity, referral management, or quality scores.

Our Approach

The Health Catalyst Pop Analyzer™ application is a visually-oriented application that allows users to define populations quickly with drag-and-drop filters, without using sophisticated or customized SQL coding. Through rapid ad-hoc analysis capabilities, Pop Analyzer enables organizations to reduce analyst workload and increase analytics productivity. Analysts can leverage Pop Analyzer’s reusable elements such as value sets and populations to improve data governance and consistency.

The Pop Analyzer application enables organizations to do more with their existing analytics resources, while expanding the benefits of their analytics investments to a broader range of stakeholders. This application not only helps relieve the pressure on overburdened analysts with too many report requests, it also helps healthcare organizations realize the potential value of their analytics investments.

The Pop Analyzer application provides an elegant interface that helps clinicians, analysts, and other stakeholders collaborate to quickly build populations of interest. This simplified process decreases population definition time by 50% or more—guaranteed. Analysts can immediately export these populations for use in improvement applications, reporting, and research.

Benefits

Dramatically reduce analytics development time. Replace lower-level reporting work with a collaborative process, using a visual population-building interface.
Unleash the analytic use of data throughout your organization. Democratize and govern access to your data assets throughout your organization and reduce stakeholder dependence on expensive, hard-to-find SQL experts.
Improve stakeholder buy-in and trust throughout the analytics process. The Pop Analyzer application's elegant drag-and-drop interface enables non-technical analysts and stakeholders to build and modify populations, exposing transparent definitions to all stakeholders.
Speed up analysis and accuracy. The Pop Analyzer library includes access to 400 nationally recognized populations, as well as national quality improvement and regulatory code sets to build accurate populations faster.
Reduce costs. Grow analytics team capabilities without increasing headcount

1. The Challenge

2. Our Approach

3. Benefits

The Challenge

Our Approach

Benefits

Proven Outcomes