Leading Hospitals Honored for Quality, Efficiency by The Advisory Board Company

Leveraging Best-in-Class Business Intelligence to Drive Clinical Practice Change

The first performance management platform developed by physicians for physicians, The Advisory Board Company’s Crimson Initiative helps members advance quality goals and secure total cost savings measured in millions of dollars. Now working with over 300 hospitals and over 25,000 physician users, the Crimson Initiative offers a multifaceted approach to physician performance improvement, combining best-in-class performance monitoring technology with dedicated implementation support, best practice research in care delivery and physician enfranchisement, and membership in a national peer collaborative.

At the program’s heart is a technological platform that pulls together physician data from a variety of repositories, including patient billing, scheduling, clinical information systems, data reporting software, care management databases, and more. The Crimson Initiative organizes this information into a unique Web-based dashboard that offers:

  • Intuitive visual design to maximize ease of use
  • Severity-adjusted data
  • Individual and group performance comparisons placed in statistical context
  • Access to patient-level details for further analysis

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Read how a hospital system saved $358 per admission with Crimson.

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"We've had a tremendous impact on our utilization, with an average decrease in costs of $358 per patient admission cared for by these physicians."
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Dr. James Heisler, Medical Director

"When we started sharing Crimson data with our physicians, literally, a month later, their performance began to improve across a variety of measures."
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Dr. John Gentile, Vice President of Medical Affairs

"We’ve used Crimson to reduce LOS for cardiovascular surgery by 1.6 days and drive significant improvement in our core measure performance."
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Dr. Lynn Simon, Chief Medical Officer