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1) Administrators and department management can quickly measure historical and real-time trends to track the impact of their decisions. For example: Patients with 30-day readmissions, Room utilization by the month, Exam delays, Wait time trends, etc.

2) Clinicians can measure their performance based on clinical outcomes of their patients. For example: My number of cases with complications, My cases with radiation dose > 5Gy, etc.

3) Staff can measure their performance based on operational and clinical factors. For example: Number of exams completed, Number of exams with missing documentation, etc.

Foundations™ adapts and displays information based on user role, therefore making each users’ experience very personalized. No more “Access denied”, or “Please contact your administrator”. Users with appropriate privileges will be able to create and share ad-hoc reports, drill into details of each data set/report, define benchmarks and organizational targets, and share reports and metrics with other users.

Of course, the data available to you will vary based on the type and number of systems that are integrated into the Foundations™ platform. So let’s get started with the tutorial so that you can begin discovering new insights!

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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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The first screen that the user will see upon successful log-in is the Homescreen.

Homescreen is the aggregate view of all available workspaces to the user. A Workspace is an organization tool that allows you to group a similar set of reports. For example, in the figure above, the Resource Utilization workspace may contain a set of reports for room usage metrics such as case start delays, room occupancy times, room idle times, etc.

There are a few additional features of the Homescreen that you should know:

1) The Inbox – For an administrator this serves as Foundations™ wide notification system. If a new user registers, or a workspace is added/shared, the administrator will be notified through the Inbox.

For all other users, the Inbox will indicate if a new workspace was added to your account.

2) Selecting the drop down under your username will show additional menu options. These will be discussed later in the tutorial.

3) Show Help – Tutorials are also built into the product. Selecting ‘Show Help’ will display the tutorial window for easy access for ]]>

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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.

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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. ]]>

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There are two types of reports in Foundations™: Summary reports and detailed reports.

Think of summary reports as “reading the headlines of a newspaper”. Summary reports allow users to quickly gauge the progress of various measures and initiatives.

For example, a summary report is used to quickly understand ER exam volumes and also monitor current wait times compared to the organizational target of 15 mins.

Based on the type of data available within Foundations™, summary reports are not limited to monitoring patient and exam volumes, but can also serve as an ‘at-a-glance’ report for monitoring financial performance or tracking clinical outliers of a department or organization.

Note: Not all workspaces will include summary reports. Since Foundations™ provides a user driven reporting, the type and availability of summary reports is dependent on the administrator that created the workspace.

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Edit Target: This tab is used to show progress relative to a certain goal. Can choose whether to stay under, stay close to, or aim to exceed a certain amount. Then a bar is generated that shows where one is relative to the target.

Keep me Informed: This tab allows the user to update the range they want the data to be in, and label each of the ranges. The corresponding label display depending on where the data is.

The user can also decide when they want to be notified about the progress of their data. They will only recieve a notification when the data hits the range, reducing clutter of daily emails. Additionally, this check occurs once a day. ]]> Foundations_DrillThru3.png
In addition, drill thru allows users to dive into patient, or exam level details so that they can access relevant clinical, financial and operational information.

The drill thru also has search capabilities. The search function allows users to look for certain words in the drill thru. All instances that contain the words searched will be highlighted.

NOTE: There is an exception to the drill thru capability. During user registration, administrators work with department managers to assign user privileges. Therefore, for the same report, some users may have drill thru privileges, while others may be approved with a basic ‘Read Only’ privilege which allows them to view reports, but not drill down into the details.

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. ]]> Foundations_DetailedReports3.png?v=2016-07-14
Detailed reports provide users with a more interactive interface. Here users can view trends and use visual and interactive discovery to understand their metrics.

Because each user interprets information differently, Foundations™ allows users to view each report in multiple different formats such as Bar Chart, Pie chart,Line and column chart, Scatter(might not be present everytime) and Table.

In addition, users with the appropriate security privileges may be able to create and modify reports to answer additional questions and share them with other users. This type of user security (Power Users) is often available for department managers, IT administrators and selected staff (management selected).

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Ex. 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.

Ex. 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. ]]> Foundations_multiplemeasures5.png?v=2016-07-14
Ex. 1 - We see that the "West Tower Oncology" has a remarkably low professional charges compared to other locations but a higher average RVU. This can be justified since oncology patients often have more complex procedure sets.

Ex. 2 - Observe that the "Emergency" department has higher charges and 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. ]]> - - Foundations_Refinement.png - -
To choose the measures, filters, and orgnizers that are allowed for refinement can be done when editing the report. There are boxes at the bottom of each section that the user can click on to search for the desired entities and add them to be allowed for refinement.

To refine the report, click on the refine report option in actions. Now the user can add the measures, filters, and organizers allowed for refinement and see the narrower data set. It is not possible to change the already existing measures, filters, and organizers.

NOTE: It is not possible to save the refined report, since the save/save as buttons are not available. To permanently change a report, it must be done in edit report. ]]>

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Power Users may create workspaces and reports. Basically, Power Users have access to all the data available. There should be few Power Users in your application environment, but we do not impose 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.

Additionally, each role will have their own security codes. Security codes are certain privileges given to roles. Not every user will have all privileges, due to security reasons, but an admin can add or exclude specific privileges of a certain user. ]]> SettingAttributes.png?v=2015-07-28-1
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. ]]>

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1. Counting something is selecting measures. Measure is a standard unit used to express the size, amount, or degree of something.

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

3. You may choose to organize the results into rows and columns. This is optional. Organizers help in better data visualization.

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.

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Think of a measuring tape, you would measure (or count the) length of a fabric.

Two very basic measures are Audit count and Audit type. Other examples could be "Metadata id". 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. Metadata id - total or average, minimum or maximum, it depends on the measure.

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Let's discuss a simple example: A user wants to see all the audits of type "DrllThru view" created in may 2019.

Since the user is only interested in data for specific type of audits, and a specific timeframe, he/she can add 2 filters:

1st filter 'Audit type' to reduce the dataset only to type DrillThru view.

2nd filter 'Audit date' to reduce the data and view audits created in May 2019.]]> Advanced4-Organization.png?v=2015-07-28-1
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=2015-07-28-1 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=2015-07-28-1 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.]]>

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