Overview of the Problem

Understanding the variation in outcomes and volumes for surgical patients is paramount in the field of pediatrics. These variations significantly impact reimbursement, clinical decision-making, and quality of care, but often existing tools fail to provide the comprehensive insight needed.

The Role Opus Plays

Opus, the powerful pediatric hospital benchmarking analytics platform from Configo Health, offers a robust understanding of surgical patient volumes and outcome variations. Armed with data from over 14 million pediatric encounters, Opus presents both a detailed view of your hospital’s performance and a benchmark against other children’s hospitals. Crucially, Opus integrates this insight seamlessly into your existing workflow.

Value Created by Opus

• Cost Savings: By providing a comprehensive view of surgical volumes and outcomes, Opus enables targeted interventions that can prevent costly complications and readmissions.
• Outcomes Improvement: Opus empowers teams to identify and implement improvement strategies, leading to better patient outcomes.
• U.S. News Performance: Enhanced understanding and management of surgical volumes and outcomes positively influence rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals.
• Regulatory Compliance: Opus supports compliance by ensuring surgical volume and outcome data is accurate, comprehensive, and readily reportable to regulatory bodies.
• Improved Reimbursement: Opus’ insights into surgical volumes and outcomes can support negotiations with payers, leading to improved reimbursement rates.

How to Use Opus to Solve this Problem

Opus Quality and Safety allows grouping and filtering by physician specialties, making it easy to group patients and outcomes by single surgeons or services. Once grouped, reports are created showing benchmarked outcomes trended over time for different surgical specialties. These reports can be scheduled for regular distribution to surgical and administrative leaders.

Unlock the full potential of your surgical data with Opus, and elevate both your standard of care and your hospital’s overall performance.