Broader Reporting And Trends By Diagnosis: PointRight Adds New Functionality To PointRight® Pro™ 30 Rehospitalization Metric

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- PointRight Inc., (www.pointright.com), the industry-standard analytics leader for healthcare providers and payers, announces it has added significant new functionality to its PointRight® Pro 30™ rehospitalization service. PointRight has included its Green Light Report capability, which provides a quick, visual scan of facilities that meet or exceed national averages. This enables its users to track facility rehospitalization performance by specific diagnoses and risk groupings. In addition, PointRight has included its Trend Graph capabilities so users can now track these diagnoses and risk groupings over time and against national benchmarks.

Reducing rehospitalization rates is one of the most important quality initiatives for long-term care facilities today, with penalties for excessive rates for acute-care partners reaching as high as 3% in 2014. PointRight Pro 30 is the industry-standard measure that allows operators to easily identify, trend and analyze their rehospitalization cases and perform root-cause analyses to distill quality improvement opportunities, using Web-based, interactive analysis tools.

"The new capabilities in PointRight Pro 30 are a major enhancement to our rehospitalization measure, which already enables facilities to see where they stand with regard to rehospitalization rates relative to other facilities nationally," said Steven Littlehale, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at PointRight. "With this new functionality, PointRight Pro 30 now enables diagnosis- and risk-level analytics previously available only at the facility level to now be available at the corporate, regional and divisional levels. What this means is that operators now have much more visibility and decision-support to help them pinpoint specific ways they can lower their rehospitalization rates across their entire enterprise to improve quality and become more competitive."

PointRight Pro 30 helps facilities assess why residents returned to the hospital, determine areas of highest rehospitalization as well as possible preventative measures, and crosswalk rehospitalized resident with other outcomes to improve the quality of care. Using graphical data display tools, it allows clients to benchmark their progress by seeing how rates trend over time compared with national averages. The new capabilities just announced will make it easier for customers to evaluate facility-level rehospitalization rates for common issues including congestive heart failure, COPD, stroke, diabetes, pneumonia and recent surgeries.

PointRight Pro 30 reshospitalization measure has recently surpassed a 9,000 user milestone. It has been adopted by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and incorporated into its Trend Tracker product, and is in use by a variety of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) nationally, which represents a variety of SNFs in their respective networks. Based upon its success, AHCA has formally submitted the measure to the National Quality Forum (NQF).

For more information or to schedule an online demo of PointRight Pro 30, visit www.pointright.com.

About PointRight Inc.
PointRight is the industry-standard analytics leader that measures risk, quality of care, rehospitalization, compliance and reimbursement accuracy for healthcare providers and payers. Using some of the largest and best databases in the industry, our nationally recognized clinical staff, researchers, and technologists expertly translate data from multiple sources into actionable information and insight. For more information, visit www.pointright.com.

SOURCE PointRight Inc.