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The Able Health Quality Measures Solution:
Why a Comprehensive Approach Matters

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When health systems face global health
crises, such as the novel coronavirus,
high-quality outpatient care plays a vital
role in saving thousands of lives.
With attention pulled between tending to
patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and
the typical responsibilities of running a
hospital, health systems struggle to know
what to prioritize.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected
tragedy that reminded health systems (and
everyone) about the utmost importance of
preparation.

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The Able Health Quality Measures Solution
Focusing on outpatient outcomes reinforces
the importance of quality outpatient care and
the framework for that care—quality
measures designed to prevent and control
chronic conditions.
Therefore, one form of preparation includes
consistently delivering high-quality outpatient
care to patients with chronic conditions,
increasing the chances these patients can
survive diseases such as COVID-19.

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The Able Health Quality Measures Solution
The Able Health™ by Health Catalyst®
quality measures solution helps health
systems adjust to a new “normal,” with
frontlines delivering care to patients with
COVID-19 and providing quality outpatient
care, all at the same time.

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A Comprehensive Solution
The Able Health quality measures solution
creates a complete picture of quality
performance.
By calculating performance across a
complete list of quality measures using
complete data from all data sources—
instead of partial data from limited sources—
quality leaders can accurately identify and
prioritize improvement opportunities, close
care gaps, and submit complete and
compliant data to payers.

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With a measures engine that calculates
performance, a performance dashboard that
displays measure performance, and a
submission engine that submits data to
payers, all supported by the Health Catalyst
Data Operating System (DOS™), Able
Health is a comprehensive solution to solve
the quality measures quandary.

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One Source of Truth for Quality Performance Data
Healthcare leaders and clinicians alike
struggle to meet provider quality measures
performance targets—or identify improve-
ment opportunities when they fall below
these targets—because of inaccurate or
incomplete quality data.
With over 2,000 quality measures used
to evaluate healthcare performance and
delivery and endless disparate data
sources, a lack of standardization make
quality measurement, let alone quality
improvement, a complicated process.

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One Source of Truth for Quality Performance Data
Able Health combines complete data into
one location, allowing health system leaders
and providers to focus more on improvement
and less on data management.
The combination of complete data,
measures, visualizations, and workflows
enables health systems to rely on one
comprehensive picture of quality
performance.

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One Source of Truth for Quality Performance Data
Able Health calculates, visualizes, and
reports performance for provider quality
measures.
Currently, the Able Health measures
engine includes a growing library of
quality measures featuring more than
240 prebuilt measures.

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One Source of Truth for Quality Performance Data
The Able Health quality measures solution
offers not only a complete quality picture,
but also a comprehensive quality workflow.
In addition to monitoring data and helping to
improve performance, the solution also
submits measures, thus reducing the data
submission burden on providers and health
systems.

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One Source of Truth for Quality Performance Data
The simple submission process allows
health systems to submit clinical data to
commercial payers to close care gaps at the
payer level or submit MIPS performance
data through an API connection to Medicare
through the Able Health Qualified Registry.

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Improve Performance Without Delay
In March 2016, Health Affairs published research
quantifying the burden of quality measurement;
the survey found the burden to be 15.1 hours per
provider per week, which amounts to a $15.4
billion cost on the entire healthcare system
related to quality measurement.
Additionally, the challenge of quality
measurement is complex, as every step in the
process presents problems that add to the total
burden—from care delivery, documenting data,
calculating performance to improving
performance, and finally, reporting performance.

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Improve Performance Without Delay
Able Health by Health Catalyst provides a
simple interface that allows quality leaders to
identify their highest-priority opportunities in
seconds (versus minutes or hours), including
measures, groups, or providers.
Leaders can also leverage data visualiza-
tions to identify trends from high-performing
measures, groups, and providers, then
determine what to replicate.

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Improve Performance Without Delay
The complete picture of quality performance
eliminates delays and demotivation for
quality improvement.
With seamless access to a full view of quality
performance at any moment, healthcare
leaders can compare their performance
across the breadth and depth of optimum
performance measures and pinpoint
precisely where they need to improve.

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“This book is a fantastic piece of work”
– Robert Lindeman MD, FAAP, Chief Physician Quality Officer

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Tarah Neujahr Bryan, MAJMC, joined Health Catalyst in 2013 and has served as Editorial
Director and Vice President of Marketing; she is currently the Senior Vice President of
Marketing and a member of the Health Catalyst leadership team. She brings a breadth of
marketing and communications experience to her current role. Prior to joining Health
Catalyst, Tarah served as the Marketing Communications Director and Foundation
Executive Director at a community hospital, managed at an advertising agency, was the
Editor and Operations Manager at an archaeology firm, and provided triage assistance and patient
admissions at a Level-II Trauma Center. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass
Communications from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Arts from Montana State University-
Billings. Tarah volunteers with Intermountain Therapy Animals and has done pro-bono communications
work for American Cancer Society, Wings Cancer Foundation, and many other non-profit organizations.
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