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OUR SOLUTIONS

““RISQ””

Benchmarking, identification and coding of HACs for better patient care

RISQ™ is a measurement, benchmarking and management tool for hospital-acquired complications (HACs) providing coding quality surveillance and benchmarking against peers and best practice.

Statistical database of more than 15 million patient episodes

Relative Indicators for Safety and Quality

RISQ™ benchmarking is adjusted for variables including case-mix data and is based on in-state and national statistical analysis.

The built-in RISQ™ Coder Workflow provides greater transparency, removing any doubt clinical teams may have in the robustness of the data underpinning the HACs results presented. The flow-on effect is an efficient process of identifying and correcting HACs utilising staff who can best affect change, ultimately providing room to focus on what matters enabling better patient outcomes.

Review HACs with confidence

HAC rates automatically complemented with data quality index
Integrated with PICQ^® workflow for coders to confirm and validate HACs
Clinical governance groups using RISQ™ can view full audit trail of coder review
Clinicians can respond to HACs within the tool
Supports education for better documentation
Supports coder understanding of HAC reporting nuance
Justification report closes the loop on data quality

Benchmark against risk-adjusted peers

Statistical peers selected from large data set of cleaned episode data
Multiple demographic and other metrics used to select statistically valid peers
Peers broken down by HAC category
For each HAC category and indicator, benchmark against industry-wide best practice
Broken down by service group, site, specialty, clinician, team – and customisable
Track rates over time

Cloud-based

Easy to use
Minimal involvement from IT – no servers or software to be installed
Dynamic access to latest HAC version updates from ACSQH
No data sent offshore
Data privacy and confidentiality

Benefits

Risk-adjusted benchmarking that enables more meaningful peer comparison
Monitor overall HAC rates with the ability to drill down to individual HAC levels
Regular data updates –daily or weekly
Identify quick wins and the ability to prioritise the biggest areas of variance
Assurance that data is correct before being reported to clinicians and statutory bodies

NEW

Clinician Workflow Tool

RISQ’s new Clinician Workflow tool helps healthcare teams complete the quality life cycle of identifying, reviewing and actioning hospital-acquired complications. It provides a platform for dialogue and interaction between clinical coders and safety & quality teams while promoting the importance of good clinical documentation.

RISQ’s Clinician Workflow tool is designed for Safety & Quality teams, allowing them to add status and commentary against recorded HACs. It also provides opportunities for these teams to send HACs back to the original coders with comments, where a HAC may need further review or clarification.

Client testimonials

Love seeing the passion for good data and reporting from the Beamtree team – very helpful and supportive. Thank you for continuing to touch base with your clients and keeping them engaged with your great programs.”

Feedback from the PICQ® & RISQ™ User Group, held 30th March 2022

SVHA has a long-standing professional relationship with Beamtree; solutions we have implemented have driven improvements in health information, data management and the delivery of clinical care. We’re on a mission to reduce HACs and provide the best care. It starts with good data. RISQ has helped drive a 16% reduction in overall hospital acquired complications and reduced pressure injury events by 70%.”

St Vincent's Health, Australia

(RISQ is) eliminating data issues so we can focus on real preventable harm and not just noise. Easy to understand, intuitive and with data that is timely.”

Healthscope, Australia

OUR SOLUTIONS

Benchmarking, identification and coding of HACs for better patient care

RISQ™ is a measurement, benchmarking and management tool for hospital-acquired complications (HACs) providing coding quality surveillance and benchmarking against peers and best practice.

Statistical database of more than 15 million patient episodes

Relative Indicators for Safety and Quality

Review HACs with confidence

Benchmark against risk-adjusted peers

Cloud-based

Benefits

NEW

Clinician Workflow Tool

Client testimonials

News & Media

Beamtree announces first project in Canada

RISQ’s Clinician Workflow Released

Beamtree partners with Central Adelaide LHN to pioneer the use of AI in support of safer patient care

St Vincent’s Health Australia achieves big reduction in hospital-acquired complications | Pulse+IT