The Polaris Suite

A Powerful New Set of Tools in THA's Patient Data System

The Polaris Suite is an extensive suite of tools from Thomson Reuters that links business and clinical issues, so you can pinpoint opportunities to further your hospital’s success.

By integrating market share, resource utilization and clinical quality analysis on a single Internet platform, Polaris establishes the connection among revenue, costs and quality, while enabling collaboration throughout your organization. Its incorporation into THA’s Patient Data System gives Texas hospitals access to the industry’s most comprehensive set of reporting tools for analyzing patient data – and making better decisions.

Integrated Information = Better Planning

With market share, resource utilization and clinical quality analysis on a common platform, Polaris facilitates a broader understanding of your organization and the factors that impact your success. Now, multiple decision-makers can see what’s happening throughout your organization, collaborating to:

Identify leading service lines by analyzing market share, clinical strength and cost-effectiveness
Identify opportunities for new revenue streams and prioritize investments in service lines
Manage your resources effectively
Understand critical operational and strategic issues
Measure the impact of improvement efforts

Planning Resources and Support

By adding the Polaris Suite, THA’s PDS now facilitates even more informed decision-making by providing:

Single point of entry for resource utilization, quality and market share analysis
Quantitative, credible and specific performance measurements – no black box
Tools to disseminate comparative data and speed decision-making
Access to data from the largest proprietary and public comparative clinical databases in the health care industry
Thomson Reuters’ value-added methodologies
Networking tools and services
UB-92 data released earlier than from other sources
Physician identifiers that enable profiling
Support to build knowledge and develop your expertise

The Polaris Suite’s Three Components

The Polaris Suite is organized into three modules, or distinct reporting categories. They help you identify opportunities to improve quality, reduce costs and grow revenue by delivering a precise analysis of hospital and physician performance based on numerous clinical and financial indicators.

Market Share Profile

Market Share Profile focuses on market share, service area utilization, use rate and patient demographic data. This foundation component of THA’s PDS has been upgraded to become an even more powerful tool.

With Market Share Profile, you can:

Analyze market share and physician loyalty for strategically important clinical services
Plan successful marketing strategies and penetrate new markets
Study distribution and utilization of services by hospital, ZIP code and county
Determine patient origin and destination
Accomplish detailed service line planning and budgeting
Share data across state lines

Resource Profile

Resource Profile analyzes facility performance and identifies improvement opportunities directed at length of stay and charges/costs.

With Resource Profile, you can:

Tie physician-driven care to resource utilization
Determine service line profitability
Examine charges and costs by patient type
Identify clinical service opportunities to reduce costs and LOS

Quality Profile

Quality Profile focus on avoidable complications, readmission rates, mortality, and charge and length of stay outliers (high/low).

With Quality Profile, you can:

Establish the correlation between reducing costs and improving clinical quality
Analyze your actual vs. expected patient outcomes
Examine competitor outcomes
Monitor national, regional and peer group trends for key clinical performance indicators
Analyze facility comparisons and other performance measures

Look Good on Paper

Seamless, integrated and user-friendly, the Polaris Suite makes your job easier with enhanced reporting and presentation capabilities:

Insight reports: Executive reports that allow for easy, quick analysis of facility or system performance
Express reports: Powerful, customized reporting that makes analysis simple. New “frameworks” tool assists report building with unique “Q & A” feature.
Design reports: Ad-hoc reporting tools that include a calculations and statistics package
Table-driven reports: Drill down into underlying information from any level within a created report.
Comprehensive graphing: Paint a picture with more than 16 types of graphs, including new “bubble or quartile graphs” for LOS/resource variance reporting.
Internet-based mapping: Easily add geographic maps to your reports online or through a downloadable application.
Easy exporting: Share information by exporting your reports into Excel and PDF formats.

Start Planning Better!

Learn more about THA’s PDS – including the Polaris Suite – by contacting Kent Stevens of HealthShare at 800/252-9404, ext. 1558, or kstevens@tha.org.