The Health Catalyst Rapid Response Analytics solution significantly reduces analytics development time by up to 90% and increases analytics productivity by up to 10 times. It provides a streamlined process for analysts by automating repetitive tasks and offering a visual population builder tool for easy population definitions without complicated SQL. This solution also improves the consistency of analytic results and helps organizations efficiently identify patient populations, particularly for undiagnosed conditions.

1. Health Catalyst
Rapid Response Analytics Solution
A data content and software suite to reduce your analytic development
time by up to 90%
Eric Just, SVP, Product Development
(Former Software Developer, Architect, Analytics Team Manager)

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• Background
• Rapid Response Analytics Solution
• Conclusion
Agenda
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Reduce
Variation
Improve
Health
Improve
Efficiency
Pre-DOS Early implementation DOS + Products
Rapid Response Analytics Solution:
Enabling Better Analytics Through Efficiency
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Overall, how well do you agree with the following statement?
“Analytic results in my organization are consistent: if you ask different
analysts you will get similar results.”
• Completely disagree — 19%
• Moderately disagree — 32%
• Neutral — 22%
• Moderately agree — 26%
• Completely agree — 1%
Poll Question #1
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Catalyst’s platform is about time to value, but we have observed
some barriers to sustainability…
• Analysts (and IT staff) are stressed and overworked; no amount of resources
seem to quell the demand.
• Organizations struggle with consistency in analytic results.
• Analytics is increasingly seen as an under-performing investment with
questionable ROI.
• Increasing scrutiny exists about whether Late-Binding is scalable enough.
The Data is Unleashed…Now What?
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The Data is Unleashed…Now What?
At most organizations, the
analytics process still takes
too long.
Development time is lost
with:
• Repeating tasks
• Inefficient communications
• Using specialized resources
for simple things
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• Integrating diagnoses from multiple data
sources
• Identifying which encounters were inpatient
encounters
• Calculating LOS
• Identifying heart failure diagnosis codes
These are all valuable tasks, but we are
asking analysts to reinvent the wheel
each time they define these.
What is Taking So Long?
Repeating tasks
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Patents filed for new wheel designs
throughout the 20th century.

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The amount of analyst time at my institution that is lost due to
performing repetitive tasks that could be automated is:
• 0-20% — 2%
• 21-40% — 31%
• 41-60% — 42%
• 61-80% — 23%
• 81-100% — 2%
Poll Question #2
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What is Taking so Long?
Inefficient Communication Cycles
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What is Taking so Long?
Specialized Resources for Simple Things
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• How many diabetics did we see
last year?
• Which patients received
valsartan in the last six
months?
• How many patients are
diagnosed with scleroderma?
• How many patients with low
back pain are also being
prescribed opioids?

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Analytics Development Process
Starts with Population Definition
Data
Standardization
Conform data
structures and
terminology
mapping
Ad-hoc
Analysis
How many
patients…?
What if…?
Cohort
Definition
Inclusion and
exclusion
criteria
Metrics/
Measures
Collect and
calculate data
about
population
Algorithms
and Insights
Analyze, train,
and discover
Rapid Response Analytics Solution
The Rapid Response Analytics Solution
Reduces analytics development time by up to 90%
• Less time spent standardizing data
• Less time spent rewriting common definitions
• Less time spent inefficiently communicating with SMEs
• Less time spent on simple questions
More time on analytics
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• Background
• Rapid Response Analytics Solution
• Conclusion
Agenda
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Source Marts
DOS Marts
Rapid Response Analytics Solution
Reduce your analytics development time by up to 90%, increase analytics productivity by up to 10x!
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Data sources (EHR,
Financial, Patient Sat., etc.)
Rapid Response Analytics SolutionThe Foundation:
The Data Operating System
Population Builder
A visual analytics builder tool that
enables rapid authoring and sharing
of population definitions without the
need for complex SQL development.
A curated, reusable, and
customizable layer of data content,
business logic, and algorithms.
Terminology DOS Mart
Person DOS Mart
Clinical DOS Mart
Claims DOS Mart
Cost DOS Mart
Surgery DOS Mart
Patient Flow DOS Mart
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Patient Sat.
Source
Claims
Source 1
Claims
Source 2
Claims
Source n
EHR
Source 1
EHR
Source 2
EHR
Source n
Cost
Source
Financial
Source
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts

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The Health Catalyst DOS™ Mart Suite
The next generation of data marts delivering content into the Data Operating System
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Reusable, curated content
leveraging decades of
experience.
Analysts no longer need to reinvent the
wheel.
Results are more consistent.
Analysts can focus on creating value-add
business analytics versus complex SQL
across multiple data sources.Patents filed for new wheel designs
throughout the 20th century.
Terminology DOS Mart
Person DOS Mart
Clinical DOS Mart
Claims DOS Mart
Cost DOS Mart
Surgery DOS Mart
Patient Flow DOS Mart
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts

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Balanced Architectural Strategy
Enterprise Data Model: Everything early
bound to single standard definitions.
Late-Binding: Don’t bind definitions
until business use case requires.
Rapid time to value
Proliferation of data objects
Balanced Approach
• Preserve atomic detail in Source Marts.
• Standardized, reusable data marts that focus on high-
value data points and calculations (DOS Marts).
• Downstream analytics can draw from either DOS Marts,
Source Marts or other Subject Area Marts.
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Extensible:
Local definitions are
allowed, while maintaining
upgradeability and
maintainability by Health
Catalyst.
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DOS Marts™ Design Principles

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The Health Catalyst DOS™ Mart Suite
Compounded value
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Clinical, Claims, Cost,
Patient Satisfaction, Surgery,
Patient Flow
Terminology, Person
Readmissions (in development)
5 hours to install versus 60 hours for
readmissions explorer
92% less time!
Leading Wisely
metrics
Improvement SAM
COPD, HF, etc.
Ad-hoc analysis

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Source Marts
DOS Marts
Rapid Response Analytics Solution
Reduce your analytics development time by up to 90%, increase analytics productivity by up to 10x!
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Data sources (EHR,
Financial, Patient Sat., etc.)
Rapid Response Analytics SolutionThe Foundation:
The Data Operating System
Population Builder
A visual analytics builder tool that
enables rapid authoring and sharing
of population definitions without the
need for complex SQL development.
A curated, reusable, and
customizable layer of data content,
business logic, and algorithms.
Terminology DOS Mart
Person DOS Mart
Clinical DOS Mart
Claims DOS Mart
Cost DOS Mart
Surgery DOS Mart
Patient Flow DOS Mart
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Patient Sat.
Source
Claims
Source 1
Claims
Source 2
Claims
Source n
EHR
Source 1
EHR
Source 2
EHR
Source n
Cost
Source
Financial
Source
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts

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Population Builder is an easy-to-use visual analytics tool that:
• Enables analysts to rapidly develop, analyze, and visualize populations
up to 90% faster.
• Brings reusable content
and authoring to non-technical
users.
• Allows centrally defined
populations to be
published and governed.
Health Catalyst Population Builder
The first Health Catalyst analyst tool that surfaces and demonstrates the benefits
of the DOS Mart Suite
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Population Builder
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Population Builder promotes
reusability and puts hundreds
of publicly available
definitions at your fingertips.
Published registries are
available for reuse throughout
the analytics environment.
Reduce analytics development
time by up to 90%.

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Population Builder
Improve SME and analyst collaboration
Enable the SME and the analyst to ‘co-pilot’
Population Builder’s easy-to-use interface gives non-technical
users unprecedented access to DOS™ content authoring.
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Population Builder
Give data directly to consumers
Don’t call a surgeon to
administer a BAND-AID.
Ad-hoc analysis puts power in the hands of
data consumers instead of relying on
expensive and overwhelmed analysts.
The result: Analysts increase
effectiveness, operate at the
top of their license.
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Rapid Response Analytics Solution Enables
Quick, Accurate Identification of Patients
More than 30 million
Americans have diabetes,
and nearly a quarter of those
patients have yet to be
diagnosed. A third of
American adults have
hypertension (HT) and many
do not know they have it as
the condition often has no
signs or symptoms. Together,
diabetes and HT account for
$285.6 billion in healthcare
costs.
The Queen’s Health Systems (QHS) and The Queen’s Clinically Integrated
Physician Network (QCIPN) were approached by the Hawaii Department of
Health (DOH) and Mountain-Pacific Quality Health regarding the availability of
grant funds to implement algorithms developed by the DOH to better identify
patients with undiagnosed pre-diabetes, diabetes, and hypertension, as well as
patients with past-due diabetes/pre-diabetes screenings. Staffing constraints and
disparate EMRs created challenges, delaying integration of the algorithms into the
EMR by months or even a year. By adopting the Rapid Response Analytics
Solution, QHS and QCIPN were able to dramatically accelerate implementation of
the custom algorithms, meeting the grant deadlines and milestones.
After successfully implementing the algorithms QHS and QCIPN were
able to identify:
• Undiagnosed diabetes in adults.
• Undiagnosed pre-diabetes in adults.
• Diabetes/pre-diabetes screening that is past due.
• Undiagnosed hypertension in adults.
In addition, implementation of the algorithms resulted in:
• Use of the analytics application to identify the patients and generate a
patient list in real-time during the teams’ standing one-hour meeting.
• For the first time, the organization has a true population health registry
based on timely, meaningful clinical data that is valued by its providers.
Under an hour,
versus weeks
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We saw the Population Builder application at HAS and knew we had to
have it.
We field numerous requests for ad-hoc reports for things like research and
knew that would be a great tool to quickly gather patient populations around
specific illnesses.
We worked with the Pop Builder team to get the software configured and were
up and running.
Our first test was to find patients that had been diagnosed with Endocarditis.
• We used the tool and in under 5 minutes had our patient population,
which we compared to our existing tools output.
• To create the same output in our current tool took a couple of hours, but
we got the same patient population.
Early User Feedback: Population Builder
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We love the
efficiency of the
Pop Builder tool.
24x!

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• Conclusion
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Source Marts
DOS Marts (aka Shared Data Marts)
Rapid Response Analytics Solution
Reduce your analytics development time by up to 90%, increase analytics productivity by up to 10x!
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Data sources (EHR,
Financial, Patient Sat., etc.)
Rapid Response Analytics SolutionThe Foundation:
The Data Operating System
Population Builder
A visual analytics builder tool that
enables rapid authoring and sharing
of population definitions without the
need for complex SQL development.
Future
Catalyst
Product
Future
Catalyst
Product
A curated, reusable, and
customizable layer of data content,
business logic, and algorithms.
Terminology DOS Mart
Person DOS Mart
Clinical DOS Mart
Claims DOS Mart
Cost DOS Mart
Surgery DOS Mart
Patient Flow DOS Mart
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Patient Sat.
Source
Claims
Source 1
Claims
Source 2
Claims
Source n
EHR
Source 1
EHR
Source 2
EHR
Source n
Cost
Source
Financial
Source
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts
Future (Roadmap) DOS Marts

30. eric.just@healthcatalyst.com
Thank You!