Health Catalyst introduces Closed-Loop Analytics services aimed at reducing provider burnout and improving workflow efficiency by integrating actionable data into EHR systems. This service significantly lowers the number of clicks required for tasks and enhances clinician satisfaction, as evidenced by a case study with UnityPoint Health. The approach combines multiple data sources into streamlined workflows, allowing for timely decision-making and improved patient care outcomes.

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With provider job dissatisfaction on the rise
and the daily battle providers face every
day to feel like they are positively impacting
patients, the EHR only adds stress.
Excessive clicks to perform basic functions,
overly complicated workflows, and lack of
data integration between systems lead to:
• provider burnout
• reduction in care delivery effectiveness
• increased clinician turnover

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Health Catalyst® Closed-Loop Analytics™
Closed-Loop Analytics™ aggregates
multiple sources of data into a customized
workflow within the EHR, or optimizes an
existing workflow, allowing end users to
more effectively use their data.
By surfacing clear, concise calls to action
at key workflow decision points, users
such as physicians, other clinical
providers, and financial and operational
teams can improve the effectiveness of
their workflows while decreasing the time
it takes to complete them.

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With reliable, actionable data accessible
at the patient bedside, providers are 15x
more likely to act on best practices and
they experience 6x less clicks to perform
the same functions within the EHR.
The result? Less time behind a computer
and more time with patients.

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Surfacing Insights at the Point of Decision Making
Health Catalyst tackles these EHR,
integration, and workflow challenges with
its new service, Closed-Loop Analytics.
Leveraging Health Catalyst experience
and expertise, Closed-Loop Analytics
integration services helps deliver analytic
insights from a health system’s multiple
data sources directly into the EHR, billing
system, or other third-party applications,
at a point in which an intervention can be
immediately taken.

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Surfacing Insights at the Point of Decision Making
Closed-Loop Analytics enables healthcare
organizations to optimally integrate
actionable data and analytics into new or
existing workflows, transforming world-
class analytics into a specific call to action
at the point of decision making.
The process improves the utilization and
effectiveness of analytics tools, yielding
simplified workflows, decreased clicks,
and improved outcomes.

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Three Ways to Improve Workflow and Decision Making
Closed-Loop Analytics leverages three primary mechanisms (Figure 1) for
improving workflows and decision making:
Increases user efficiency
with data integration
Streamline EHR processes,
reduce excessive clicks, and
reduce provider burnout by
embedding analytics output
into a workflow tool (e.g., the
EHR).
Integrates data analytics
into your workflow
Increase effectiveness of
analytics products by
integrating data analytics into
workflow components that
enable action-able insights for
the end user.
Integrates data
in real-time
Access real-time data at the
decision point to steer
accurate decision making
the first time.

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Three Ways to Improve Workflow and Decision Making
Figure 1: Health Catalyst Closed-Loop Analytics Services provides three
integration services to increase efficiency and streamline processes.

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UnityPoint Health Decreased Clicks, Improved
Workflow, and Increased Provider Satisfaction
UnityPoint Health, a major healthcare
provider across Iowa, Illinois, and
Wisconsin, integrated Closed-Loop
Analytics directly into its EHR with the
goal to earlier identify and better treat
patients with COPD.
As a result, UnityPoint Health improved
its workflow, gained operational efficiency,
and improved clinician satisfaction.
Some of the results from Closed-Loop
Analytics include:
83 percent relative reduction in
the number of clicks and
keyboard interactions.
150 hours saved annually for
the registered nurses and care
coordinators providing care to
patients with COPD, the result
of closed-loop analytics and
click reduction.
Significant improvement in
documentation of process aims
for high-risk patients.

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Combining Expertise and Experience
The Closed-Loop Analytics team brings
together integration experts from multiple
clinical and analytics disciplines as well
as team members with decades of
combined experience working directly for
major EHR vendors.
The team draws on its firsthand
experience with vendor products, a
partnership approach, and sensitivity to
the clinical and business workflow
imperatives and challenges around
deploying analytics solutions directly into
the EHR or other third-party applications.

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Combining Expertise and Experience
Closed-Loop Analytics integrates enterprise-
wide, vendor-agnostic products and solutions
directly into EHR workflows, transforming
world-class analytics—from all data sources
throughout the healthcare system—into
actionable insight at the point of decision
making so organizations can provide the
right care—how, when, and where the
patient needs it.

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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
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