Crimson Physician Management
Hospital leaders are witnessing a confluence of events that are driving the need for automated physician performance management. As a physician leader, you need to ensure that your improvement initiatives are having a tangible impact on your hospital's performance. You want to be confident that your quality programs are being embraced by individual physicians. Crimson's physician management software lets your team:
- Present individual physician profiles that are inituitive, yet contain the level of detail required by physicians
- Equip your physicians to review their own data in anticipation of Pay-for-Performance (P4P) programs
- Monitor physician compliance with your mandated order sets and guidelines
- Focus your team's efforts and resources on selected physicians or groups with outlier performance, or showcase outstanding ones
CMOs and physician leaders require intuitive physician profiles that help them identify improvement opportunities; not reports designed for statisticians and data analysts, but profiles that make sense to the physician and give then actionable data to change their behaviors. Crimson's Physician Management system simplifies the complicated and laborious task of compiling physician performance and evaluating a physician's practice patterns against benchmarks, guidelines and best practices. It compiles and presents large amounts of data across a variety of areas into a visually pleasing and readable interface.
Hospital leaders understand that standardized best practices are instrumental to reducing practice variations and costs, while maintaining a high level of care. They have provided order sets, guidelines and other evidence-based medicine (EBM) tools to guide physician practice patterns. However, the availability of order sets is only half the solution. In addition to checking for the use of order sets at the point of care, it is equally important, if not more so, to measure aggregate compliance patterns and to analyze trends for physicians and groups. Crimson helps hospital leaders track the actual adoption of these order sets over time.
Hospitals are initiating data transparency programs to share performance data with their medical staff. With the advent of physician Pay-for-Performance (P4P), physicians have greater interest in viewing their own data. Pay-for-Performance programs for hospitals and physicians are moving out of trial implementations and becoming a reality for physicians and hospitals administrators. Physicians desire to track their outcomes and compliance to best practices on a regular basis to ensure that they will be eligible for these P4P payments. They will need timely and comprehensive reporting of this data. Crimson automates the dissemination of physician data to individual physicians. Using this software, physicians are able to review and analyze their data regularly and work together with their leaders to improve performance.
Read how one hospital system used the Crimson Physician Management software to save $358 in costs per admission while improving quality.