Ewokian Release Notes

Crimson Release Notes
Crimson Continuum of Care
Release Notes
August 2017
Ewokian
Research Technology Consulting
©2017 Advisory Board • All Rights Reserved 1 advisory.com

Table of Contents
1 Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 2
2 What’s New .......................................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 Improved Performance of Physician Scorecard ...................................................................... 2
2.2 New Volume Column in Physician Scorecard ......................................................................... 2
2.3 Physician Profile Page displaying All Physician Affiliations ..................................................... 3
2.4 Other Fixes / Improvements .................................................................................................... 4
3 What's Next? ....................................................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Update to AHRQ V6.0 for ICD 9 .............................................................................................. 4
3.2 New ICU Quality & Utilization Metrics...................................................................................... 4
3.3 Updates to Readmission Methodology to exclude non-acute admissions .............................. 5
1 Overview
The Ewokian release offers Crimson Continuum of Care users with performance improvement to the
Physician Scorecard and other updates.
2 What’s New
2.1 Improved Performance of Physician Scorecard
We have been actively working on improving the overall performance of Electronic Review module. In this
release, we have improved the performance of Physician Scorecard in the Create Reviews tab, reducing
the time taken to load the scorecard by about 70%. Also, the performance of CSV export in E-Review
Scorecard page has been improved.
In the upcoming releases, we will make further investments in improving the performance of creating and
downloading E-review.
2.2 New Volume Column in Physician Scorecard
Physician Scorecard (Create Reviews tab) now has a new volume column. The column indicates
encounter volume by each provider. This would provide a quick view of volumes by physician/provider as
required by accreditation bodies.
©2017 Advisory Board • All Rights Reserved 2 advisory.com

2.3 Physician Profile Page displaying All Physician Affiliations
Historically, Physician Profile page has been listing down only affiliations for which the physician has data
in the application.
Considering that members use Physician Affiliations section to be aware of the groups to which the
physician belongs, which in turn helps them in measure mapping, we have enhanced the Physician Profile
page to display all affiliations.
Affiliation for which the physician does not have data in the application is kept as a collapsible section.
They can be viewed in full by clicking on “Show Additional Affiliations” section, especially when a member
needs to measure map. This would provide members transparency on all the affiliations that the physician
belongs to, thus making measure mapping easier.
Note: This functionality is available by default for super users and admins. This would be made available
for Self Service Physicians upon request.
©2017 Advisory Board • All Rights Reserved 3 advisory.com

2.4 Other Fixes / Improvements
High Priority Issues Closed
Feature
Encounter
Listing
Description
Fixed an issue where drilling down through encounters from a measure did not work in
Internet Explorer
E-Review Fixed an issue in electronic review that prevented exporting of more than 500
physicians into CSV.
AHRQ
Normal Priority Issues Closed
Top Decile and Top Quartile comparison methodology has been revised to consider a
more accurate top decile/ top quartile population for AHRQ benchmarking.
Feature
E-Review
E-Review
On-Demand
Description
Fixed an issue in E-Review where Bulk Signing did not capture status change and
signing actions as separate events.
When a user clicks on the E-Review icon from the home page immediately after site
restart, E-Review page used to error out. This has now been fixed.
Fixed an issue in On-Demand where selecting a specific payer class in Focus did not
reflect in the exported .csv report.
3 What's Next?
In the next 1-3 months we will be providing the following updates to your Crimson Continuum of Care site:
3.1 Update to AHRQ V6.0 for ICD 9
AHRQ has recently released V6.0 support for ICD 9. CCC will soon update to leverage this version from
AHRQ. This update will be applicable to both AHRQ table metrics and Pay for Performance Dashboard.
3.2 New ICU Quality & Utilization Metrics
We will soon launch three new metrics that would aid members in ICU management initiative and in
reducing over-utilization of the ICU. The metrics are Average ICU Days, ICU Mortality Rate and Average
ICU Vent Days.
These metrics are currently in beta testing phase. Please reach out to your Value Advisor if you would like
to participate in the beta testing.
©2017 Advisory Board • All Rights Reserved 4 advisory.com

Here is what you can do with these metrics
Compare ICU outcomes with peers across the cohort
Investigate ICU over-utilization by scanning through Primary Diagnoses
Track trends in patient flow into the ICU and throughput
Monitor mortality trends within the ICU
Focus by specific diagnoses to track infections associated with ventilator usage
Encounter drill down to track Hospital Days Vs ICU Days Vs ICU Vent Days
3.3 Updates to Readmission Methodology to exclude non-acute admissions
We have been actively working on improving our capabilities to better define admissions to non-acute
settings within the acute care facility. This will improve the accuracy of Readmission methodology by
excluding in-hospital transfers to Hospice, Psychiatric facilities, Swing Beds, SNF, Rehabilitation units,
etc., from being flagged as readmissions. The change will ensure that we consider only acute admissions
as part of our Readmission and Readmission with Exclusion metrics.
The new capability will allow members to define non-acute admissions based on patient type or opt to use
Crimson methodology to define non-acute admissions based on revenue codes. We will also provide
additional facility to exclude non-acute admissions from readmission calculation based on discharge
disposition codes.
We will soon reach out to you with more details.
©2017 Advisory Board • All Rights Reserved 5 advisory.com