Health Catalyst

Technical

The Health Catalyst Value Optimizer™ solution empowers healthcare leaders to optimize their strategy for value-based care (VBC) success. The application serves up insights—mined from claims data and enhanced by terminology, groupers, logic, and additional data from the Data Operating System (DOS™)—to instantly identify the most valuable opportunities for VBC performance improvement across the continuum. With comprehensive benchmarking in key domains such as post-acute care, ED utilization, inpatient care, and more, Value Optimizer is a foundational resource for organizations seeking to make population health profitable while ensuring quality care for complex patient populations.

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 Value Optimizer™ application is an industry-leading solution to help systems master their value-based care (VBC) strategy and achieve profitability in population health management. Delivering data aggregation, integration, and analysis, it instantly identifies the most valuable benchmarked opportunities for improvement across the continuum—offering actionable guidance.

With unparalleled breadth and depth, the Value Optimizer solution leaves no stone unturned in the discovery of opportunities—empowering leaders to master their VBC strategy and confidently pursue a rational course toward improved performance in risk-based contracts.

Benefits

Comprehensive, quantified intelligence. Value Optimizer presents one solution to see and understand all your financial options—up to 10,000 possible opportunities across the care continuum—benchmarked and compared with dollar impact. Visualizations clearly show the most valuable opportunities for better management of VBC.
Accuracy and context for better decisions. With continually refreshed data and benchmarking (using risk-adjusted codes, published research, or ‘digital twin’ population matching), the app serves up timely and meaningful data to guide your VBC strategy.
Transparency, not "black box." With fully disclosed and legible groupers, metric calculations, and risk and benchmarking methodologies, the solution allows open-book analytics across 10+ domains from inpatient to post-acute, prescriptions to coding, chronic to end-of-life care, etc.
Expert guidance. Our most successful clients work with our services team to explore opportunities within the complete clinical, operational, and financial context for a given population—accessing guidance that up-levels their strategic insight and accelerates success.

1. The Challenge

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The Challenge

Our Approach

Benefits

Proven Outcomes