Colorado Hospital Association: Health Care Data & Alteryx

Health Care Data & AlteryxIT’S NOT JUST FOR BI

Colorado Hospital Association

Founded in 1921 to “support our members’ collaborative commitment to advance the health of their communities through affordable, accessible, high quality health ‐care.”

Our imperatives include:◦ Advocacy and Legislative Policy◦ Communication◦ Health Care Delivery and Payment Reform◦ Clinical Excellence◦ Education and Events◦ Hospital Emergency Preparedness◦ Rural Health and Hospitals◦ Data Analytics

Center for Health Information and Data Analytics at CHA

Created in 2013 to provide data analytics and information for our members and the organization’s activities.

Our Goals:◦ Support advocacy and evidence-based policy◦ Produce informative and actionable analytics for our members◦ Understand impact of reforms and legislation◦ Identify trends and drivers in the hospital industry

Our Challenges:◦ Big sets of disparate data from disjointed sources in unrelated forms◦ Lots of noise and errors◦ Going bravely where no analyst has gone before

Currently consists of two data scientists and two Alteryx licenses…

National Hospital Payer Mix Trends

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Media Coverage

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Checklist Project Consolidated nearly 700 checklists into digestible reports for each hospital

Highlighted strong and weak areas of checklist compliance to help maintain and improve quality

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Project RED

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Goal Rate: 5.2%

Overall Same-Cause Readmission Rate

Provided data analytics, interpretation and visualsPublished white paper

Alteryx and Readmissions Almost 2 million records Matching patients on hospital, medical record numbers, birthday and sex

Counted a single readmission for any patient who returned to the hospital within 30 days of original discharge (no matter how many times in that 30 days) ◦ New tracking period began at 30 days from original discharge

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Alteryx and Rural Migration

5 years worth of data

>2 million inpatient claims

43,000 ZIP codes

68 hospitals

65 counties, four rural regions and six metro regions

158,000 different Medicare DRG payment amounts

Location of Patient + Location of Hospital Market Owner analysis Migration Status of Patient Price of Hospital Stay Rural Migration Analysis

Alteryx and Rural Migration

Inpatient Rural Migration, ’10-’14

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The Impact of Rural Migration

Advocacy and Support