Colorado Hospital Association Selects Alteryx Strategic Analytics Software Platform to Improve Health Care Quality Statewide

Organization Creates New Data Analytics Center, Counts on Alteryx to Improve Response Time and Analysis for Legislative and Health Care Policy Proposals

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Aug 29, 2013, 08:30 ET

IRVINE, Calif. and GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Aug. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics software, and the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA), the leading voice of the Colorado hospital and health system community, today announced that CHA has chosen Alteryx Strategic Analytics to enable the Association to more efficiently and accurately evaluate the impact of legislative and policy proposals at federal and state levels. CHA will use Alteryx to rapidly blend clinical and financial data from a variety of sources and apply predictive analytics to help the Association understand the impact of policies on its members.

"For health care organizations like the Colorado Hospital Association, analytics have become central to how they do business. Alteryx is able to provide powerful analytics to CHA and easily deal with the complexity of data they must address every day," said Paul Evans, senior vice president of sales, Alteryx. "We're able to put fast, powerful and affordable analysis tools in the hands of any analyst, greatly improving their members' productivity."

"A robust data analytics capability is essential to effective advocacy on behalf of our member hospitals and health systems," said Steven Summer, CHA president and chief executive officer. "We chose Alteryx because of how quickly we could deploy its system and start receiving value. The software will enable our data analysts to accurately analyze payment models, volume disparities, clinical outcomes and population health metrics. We will model, understand and communicate the potential impact of policy decisions, which are essential for assisting our members prepare for the future."

With data analytics rapidly becoming a key component in analyzing and influencing health care reform policies and emerging payment and delivery systems, the CHA Board of Trustees recently approved the creation of the CHA Center for Health Information and Data Analytics. The Alteryx Strategic Analytics platform plays an integral role in CHA's new service capabilities, which gives employees access to large data sets from multiple sources in order to find innovative ways to improve health care costs, outcomes, access and utilization.

About the Colorado Hospital Association
The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) represents 95 member hospitals and health systems throughout Colorado. CHA partners with its members to work towards health reform and performance improvement, and provides advocacy and representation at the state and federal level. Colorado hospitals and health systems are committed to providing coverage and access to safe, high-quality and affordable health care. In addition, Colorado hospitals have a tremendous impact on the state's economic stability and growth, contributing to nearly every community across the state with more than 72,000 employees statewide. For more information, visit www.cha.com.

About Alteryx, Inc.
Alteryx provides an indispensable and easy-to-use analytics platform for enterprise companies making critical decisions that drive their business strategy and growth. Alteryx Strategic Analytics runs analytic applications that empower executives to identify and seize market opportunities, outsmart their competitors, increase customer loyalty and drive more revenue. It enables business analysts and Data Artisans to combine Big Data with market knowledge, location insight, and business intelligence; easily perform predictive and spatial analytics; and produce analytic apps that can be shared via the private cloud or the Alteryx Analytics Gallery public cloud. Customers like Experian Marketing Services and McDonald's rely on Alteryx daily. Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with offices in Boulder and Silicon Valley, Alteryx empowers 250+ customers and 200,000+ users worldwide. Visit Alteryx, the leader in Strategic Analytics, today at www.alteryx.com or call 1-888-836-4274.

SOURCE Alteryx, Inc.