Chart Abstraction Services

Chart Abstraction Services

1. The Challenge

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2. Our Approach

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3. Benefits

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Health Catalyst combines experienced abstractors with deep registry, product, and analytics expertise. Our teams understand both the clinical judgment required for abstraction and the technology and workflows that support accurate, timely registry reporting. We work alongside your registry team to:

  • Complete agreed abstraction volumes
  • Reduce backlog and support submission timelines
  • Apply standardized quality and inter-rater reliability processes
  • Scale coverage as workloads and staffing needs change
  • Use established technology and workflow efficiencies to reduce manual effort
  • Help deliver timely, trusted data for reporting and improvement

Chart Abstraction Services is available to organizations using ARMUS or CRStar. The specific registries, volumes, responsibilities, and service levels are defined with each organization.

The Challenge

Health systems that have acquired ambulatory care practices—and independent ambulatory practices alike—face tremendous financial pressures and challenges to financial sustainability. If you’re an ambulatory care leader, you’re looking to improve the efficiency of the services you provide and find cost savings without negatively impacting patient outcomes, the community, or the integrity of the organization. Yet it can be difficult to access data that brings actionable insights to inform decisions to improve patient access, panel management, provider productivity, referral management, or quality scores.

Our Approach

Health Catalyst combines experienced abstractors with deep registry, product, and analytics expertise. Our teams understand both the clinical judgment required for abstraction and the technology and workflows that support accurate, timely registry reporting. We work alongside your registry team to:

  • Complete agreed abstraction volumes
  • Reduce backlog and support submission timelines
  • Apply standardized quality and inter-rater reliability processes
  • Scale coverage as workloads and staffing needs change
  • Use established technology and workflow efficiencies to reduce manual effort
  • Help deliver timely, trusted data for reporting and improvement

Chart Abstraction Services is available to organizations using ARMUS or CRStar. The specific registries, volumes, responsibilities, and service levels are defined with each organization.

Benefits

  • Add capacity and keep work moving. Complete agreed abstraction volumes, work through accumulated cases, and maintain submission readiness.
  • Strengthen submission confidence. Identify potential issues through pre-submission validation and provide audit support to submit with confidence.
  • Accelerate time to value. Use pre-automated data elements and established query libraries to reduce manual effort without adding to reporting workloads.
  • Support consistent data. Apply mature abstraction processes designed for accuracy and repeatability.
  • Maintain continuity with experienced teams. Use cross-trained professionals with experience across cardiovascular, oncology, stroke, surgical, and CMS/TJC reporting programs.
  • Free internal teams for higher-value work. Give registry and clinical leaders more time for program development, collaboration, and performance improvement.

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