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Menus or action menus are available on your right and most actions are carried out with one mouse click.

A workspace is a collection of reports.

Analytical results and charts, summary information are all different forms of reports.

Internet Explorer versions 7 and above are supported. As are Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, pick any browser.

If you are a Power User, please create a new workspace called "My Workspace", to avoid overwriting other workspaces.]]> SharingAndNotes.png?v=2013-03-22-2
As an illustrative example, say the team has made a decision to reduce CPT code errors by 5% each month. A workspace can be created for this project and all the team members can share and write notes on the progress.

Sharing: To share the workspace you are viewing, open the "Workspace Actions" menu and select "Share Workspace".

Workspaces may be also shared by belonging to a common role. E.g. A "radiologist" role may contain workspaces that is seen by available to all users that belong to the "radiologist" role. ]]> WhereDataComesFrom.png?v=2013-03-22-2
Orders and Results information will be received via HL7 messages.

Image Metadata, Radiation Exposure, etc are loaded from DICOM feeds.

Financials can be loaded from HL7 and EDI messages as well as data files.

Data can be provided through CSV, MS-EXCEL files, other formats are also acceptable.

You may start with a set of standards based data, and over time expand to satisfy your data analysis needs. ]]>

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Summary reports - provide key information at glance and float to the top of the workspace.
Key Performance Indicators can be set by clicking the KPI Text area. Progress Bars are auto generated. You can also include text phrases, on the last column in the summary line.

Detail reports - provide information as tables and charts. The system figures out which chart presentation is possible and appropriate.

Notice the "info" link - mouse over to view configuration of the report.

You may minimize a report by clicking on the divot on the left edge of title bar. ]]> VisualUnit2.png?v=2013-03-22-2

The columns in the drill-through display are configurable with built-in intelligence.
For example, if you click on an RVU value, then it is likely that you may want to see the CPT Code, Body Part, related RVUs and Charges if available.

You may export the data, and depending on the time it would take, Foundations will provide the .csv data file immediately or send you a notification to retrieve the data file when ready. ]]> VisualUnit3.png?v=2013-03-22-2
E.g. When procedure volume is organized by priority and modality, the system figures out that you would want to see a stacked bar chart.
E.g. When we find a date or time attribute, we always put that attribute on the X-axis.

Y-Axis is always the value axis.

You may click on the legend to hide or show that particular series in the chart.

E.g. Click on "Routine" series, to hide the volume of Routine exams.
We apply intelligent chart display behaviour to make your life easier, you can change the chart configuration by clicking on 'Switch'.

Charts may have multiple measures for visual correlation. ]]> VisualUnit4.png?v=2013-03-22-2
E.g. 1 - We see that the "West Tower Oncology" has a remarkably low professional charges for a reasonably equivalent professional charge compared to other locations but a higher average RVU - makes sense, cancer patients have more complex example.

E.g. 2 - Observe that the "Emergency" department has a high charges and high average RVU - you may want to pay attention as expensive claims from the ER may create collection challenges.

Multiple measure charts are a powerful visual tool to look for patterns. ]]>

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Power Users may create workspaces and reports. Basically, Power Users have access to all the data available. There should few Power Users in your application environment, but we do notimpose artificial restrictions.

User Accounts: Most users in an organization fall into this category. Users Acount holders may view workspaces, drill-through to raw fact level information, share workspaces, write notes. These users' data access may be restricted via attribute tags - e.g. the picture shows the User Account for Noreen Bronk is associated with the provider name 'Noreen Bronk'. To tag a user with an attribute value, simply scroll down the list of values and select the appropriate value.

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Workspaces may be assigned to roles and when a user belongs to a role, the set of workspaces in that role are available to the user.

Roles (along with personalized workspaces) are particularly powerful in delivering self-service data analysis to your staff. One workspace may belong to multiple roles and a user can belong to multiple roles, e.g. a user may belong to radiologist and management roles. ]]> SettingAttributes.png?v=2013-03-22-2
For example, a radiologist use may be tagged with a provider name, as would be a technologist user. Data available to users can be restricted by implementing profile attributes.

When you are assigned a personalized workspace through your role, these attributes will be applied to restrict the visible data. ]]>

Advanced1-ConfiguringVU.png?v=2013-03-22-2 "Add new report" from the workspace actions menu. Please think of a data analysis problem in your business language and use it to walk through a practice session.

1. Counting something is selecting measures.

2. Use filters to apply basic analysis and restrict the data set. Each filter condition progressively narrows the data set.

3. You may choose to organize the results into rows and columns. This is optional.

The new report you wish to configure will appear in the same workspace, in line with other reports. As you configure a new report, you can refer to others for context.]]> Advanced2-Measures.png?v=2013-03-22-2
Think of a measuring tape, you would measure (or count the) length of a fabric.

Two very basic measures are Procedure Count and Patient Count. Other examples could be "Wait Duration" - the time delay between patient check-in and procedure start. There can be many different measures, and the exact set depends on the raw data available.

Click on select a measure button to open the measures palette. The measure names are commonly terms used in the business with a meaningful description

When you select a measure, you may be able to select a mathematical function e.g. professional charges - total or average, minimum or maximum, it depends on the measure.

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There is an extensive set of attributes that you can filter on.

In the example pictured, we are selecting all the patients that appeared in the Emergency. We could also select multiple locations, such as Emergency and Inpatient - that would be the union of patients in two departments.

One special filter condition is "- personalized via user setting -". This condition is used to drive personalized workspaces, discussed in a later section. ]]> Advanced4-Organization.png?v=2013-03-22-2
We encourage simple organizations, however, you may specify upto 2 levels, for row & columns each.

When you select row-column organization, plan for optimal tabulated viewing. Do not allow charting to weigh on your choices. The system figures out the optimal chart layout based on attributes and cardinality.

On selecting the attribute for organization, you may then select a binning to group or cluster the data, e.g. Date groups, patient age ranges, etc.

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First step is tagging the user account with appropriate profile values (provider name, site name, etc). As a brief refresher, user accounts can be tagged with attribute values. As an example - referring physician's user account, lets say Dr. Abel's account may be tagged with the attribute Referring Physician and value "Dr. Abel". For the steps, refer to the section on User Management.

Personalized reports can be two types - non-comparative or comparative.

]]> Advanced6-NonComparativeVU.png?v=2013-03-22-2 Non-Comparative reports provide restricted information to the user. In our example, a non-comparative report would give Dr. Abel his patient panel. Or to use another example, a non-comparative report would give a radiologist their individual productivity statistics.

To create a non-comparative report, use the filter capability, and select the filter condition '-personalized via user setting-'. This filter condition will use the attribute value from the user profile to restrict the data set.

In our illustrative example, when Dr. Abel will be allowed to see only the patient list that have the referring physician "Dr. Abel".]]> Advanced7-ComparativeVU.png?v=2013-03-22-2 Comparative reports should be used to provide benchmark performance information to users. For example, a radiologist might want to see how they contribute to the total reading volume. To do this, in the organization section (rows or columns) use the signing radiologist attribute and select 'Mine vs. Others'.

Typically, personalized reports should be used with role-based workspaces. For example, the Radiologist role (and therefore all radiologists) would have a "My Performance" workspace with template-driven personalized reports.]]>