Healthcare Analytics Tools & Resources

Unlock the full potential of your healthcare data with American Data Network's Inter-Rater Reliability (IRR) Toolkit. Ensure data accuracy, elevate patient care, and achieve institutional excellence.

Unlock the full potential of your healthcare data with American Data Network's Inter-Rater Reliability (IRR) Toolkit. Ensure data accuracy, elevate patient care, and achieve institutional excellence.

ADNPSO’s analysis of 116 clinics revealed only 3 events reported PER YEAR per clinic across a 3-year period, underscoring the urgent need for a focus on improving the culture of safety in the outpatient setting.

A report by NAHQ reveals major skill gaps among the healthcare quality and safety workforce. Use these 5 tactics to close these gaps at your facility.

Smartsourcing is a business strategy of shifting towards partnerships that focus an organization on its core competencies and core mission, and to then shed the processes that are not core to the organization’s mission to a partner. 

Healthcare organizations on the leading edge of quality improvement are reinventing their approach to data, focusing less on adding ever more data to an information black hole and instead organizing more resources around producing insight from the data and, most importantly, acting on it to accelerate change. This doesn’t mean they neglect data collection. Rather, they’re smarter in how they collect it by leveraging a trusted smartsourcing partner to handle the more routine task of data collection so they can concentrate their precious and scarce personnel on more advanced roles like analysts and change agents. This whitepaper details how ADN clients calculate and perceive the return on investment of smartsourcing data abstraction to a trusted partner so they can make more intelligent use of their financial and personnel resources.

One of the most vetted measurement tools to quantify your patient safety culture and to identify problem areas is the Survey on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this article, you will learn 6 best practices for your next SOPS to both fulfill accreditor and watchdog expectations and, more importantly, to make the process pay off in the form of an improved safety culture for your organization.

Fall prevention in healthcare involves managing patients' underlying risk factors and optimizing their environment to reduce the likelihood of an unplanned descent to the floor. Resources such as Fall Prevention Toolkits have been shown effective in reducing this type of patient safety event.

Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting is a method of collecting details and information about an incident, near miss or unsafe condition in hospitals and other care settings through an electronic or paper-based form submitted by frontline staff. To achieve the highest levels of reliability, organizations must defy human nature by eagerly embracing the evidence of failure. This article will suggest six strategies, and even more specific techniques, for creating a culture that encourages — and even incentivizes — team members at all levels to report incidents, near misses and unsafe conditions.