Understanding the complex business challenges facing healthcare services institutions, the Irus Group has developed the next generation of business intelligence tools and services for the health care delivery system such as Hospitals (Provider), Insurance Companies (Payer), Provider (Physicians) and ultimately the consumers (Patients). Clearly the delivery of quality care to patients is the core business of any healthcare provider organization, but non-integrated legacy systems and staffing shortages have resulted in deviations from critical standards in the delivery of care to patients. Unintended consequences of these deviations to healthcare procedures may include:

• Unfavorable clinical outcomes
• Increased cost of care
• Higher malpractice costs
• Inappropriate use of resources
• Loss of reputation
• Loss of accreditation

Quality Improvement

Irus Group is uniquely suited to members of the Healthcare Delivery providers to effectively manage quality of care and drive sustainable improvements by measuring and viewing clinical performance, resource utilization, cost-effectiveness, pathway development and evidence-based decision making. Creating a true evidence-based culture requires healthcare providers to empower management and staff with analytic and knowledge management capabilities for strategic decision making that will lead to:

• Increased patient safety
• Improved quality of care
• More effective risk management practices
• Better application of best practices for care protocols

Provider Analysis and Classification

The Irus Group Healthcare data management, analytic and reporting solutions enable clients to uncover that critical information - and empower physicians to make evidence-based changes to practice patterns by:

• Consolidating data for measuring and reporting practice and prescribing patterns
• Tracking by specific disease, population, DRG, etc
• Surfacing physician measures to monitor cost, use and quality at a high level, while also allowing drill-down to more detailed data.

Complex Data Analysis & Reporting

The Irus Group Healthcare Practice gives you the ability to assemble highly sophisticated predictive models that can analyze and predict such utilization variables as:

• Demand for future services by geography, medical need and payer type
• When future need will occur (including time of day and, more importantly, the point in time during the patient's health history)
• How future encounters will take place (emergency, routine visit, hospital admission, etc.)
• Financial encounter projections, including how much revenue future encounters will produce, payer type, what it will cost, etc.

By forecasting better, Healthcare organizations can improve planning capabilities across the board. You can size service offerings and determine where to locate them, keeping both patient satisfaction and revenue high. This information can be used to support:

• Revenue prediction
• Cost prediction
• Investment decision support
• Knowledge and skills management