UHC Introduces Physician Insight Report With Enhanced Customization Capabilities

CHICAGO, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC today announced the new Physician Insight Report, a robust comparative data tool that enables its academic medical center (AMC) members to quickly and easily create reports customized to their needs. It is available at no charge to members that subscribe to UHC's Clinical Data Base/Resource Manager™ (CDB/RM).

Physician Insight, a turbocharged version of UHC's physician profile tool, offers members virtually limitless options for viewing and manipulating UHC's incomparable physician data. Its user-friendly enhancements make it easy for chief medical officers, chief quality officers, department chairs, data analysts, and other AMC decision makers to:

• View multiple physicians in a single report;
• Compare and analyze individuals and groups against internal and external benchmarks;
• Add charts to individual sections for more visually appealing data representation; and
• Create customized report layouts and templates.

"Our member focus groups told us they wanted a faster, easier way to take advantage of UHC's physician data," said David Levine, MD, UHC associate vice president of informatics and medical director. "Physician Insight is the only tool on the market that lets members turn AMC-specific information into actionable intelligence about professional practice trends that affect quality of care, patient safety, and cost."

Physician Insight enables members to leverage the power of comprehensive, comparative data from more than 110 AMCs. It provides built-in measurement for physician credentialing and reporting to meet The Joint Commission's requirements. Other typical member applications of this tool include:

• Evaluating physicians on metrics such as mortality, length of stay, readmissions, and complications;
• Measuring physician variations within and across hospitals; and
• Drilling down to the patient level using more than 100 variables.
  

UHC will continue to improve Physician Insight and its expanding suite of CDB/RM solutions. For example, the next enhancements to Physician Insight will enable members to identify physicians by name and provide information on prescribing physicians at the resource level. In addition, outpatient encounter data are becoming available in the CDB/RM, and UHC will take the necessary steps to incorporate these outpatient data and round out the full picture of patient activity associated with each physician. This will allow physicians to study and understand the full volume of patients seen. Other future CDB/RM enhancements include 2 new tools: the Quality and Spend Scorecard, which integrates patient outcomes and supply chain data, and the interactive Emergency Department Scorecard, which includes inpatient and outpatient data and case-specific physician information.

The Physician Insight Report is free to CDB/RM subscribers.

About UHC

UHC is an alliance of the nation's leading nonprofit academic medical centers, which are focused on delivering world-class patient care. Based in Chicago, Ill, UHC fosters collaboration with and among its 115 academic medical center and 258 affiliated hospital members through its renowned programs and services in the areas of comparative data and analytics, performance improvement, supply chain management, strategic research, and public policy. UHC helps its members achieve excellence in quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Formed in 1984, UHC's membership includes more than 90% of the nonprofit academic medical centers in the United States. For more information, visit uhc.edu.

SOURCE UHC

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