Veterans Health Administration Engages Health Level, Inc. to Provide Comprehensive User-Friendly Data Analytics
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Veterans Health Administration National Teleradiology Program (VA-NTP) recently awarded a multiyear contract for comprehensive data analysis and reporting platform to Health Level, Inc. The system provides VA-NTP business users the ability to correlate data across Healthcare IT applications and act upon the analytics, which is critical to sustaining quality of care provided by the VA-NTP to its growing customer base. The VA-NTP serves more than 30 VA Medical Centers across the country and has a waiting list for its high-quality radiology diagnostic services.
With this new capability, VA-NTP staff and management can express questions and visualize correlations between diverse parameters such as staffing levels, case mix, critical cases, revenue and seasonal patterns. The project scope includes clinical, operational and financial data for all staffing locations and customer sites across multiple time-zones from the East Coast to Hawaii. Built on Foundations™ from Health Level, service performance reports for VA Medical Centers as well as staff metrics can be distributed confidentially and securely. This capability simplifies reporting, improves transparency and continually ensures collaborative decisions between VA-NTP customers and staff.
"This selection by VA-NTP demonstrates the commitment to improve efficiency, outcomes and financial performance through fact-based analytics to drive informed decisions," according to Parag Paranjpe, Chief Executive Officer of Health Level, Inc. "As the data set grows, VA-NTP will be able to mine the data for continuous quality improvement. This data set will also be available to all VA-NTP customers across the system for real-time analytics integrated with large-volume of historical insight."
About VA National Teleradiology Program
VHA National Teleradiology Program (NTP) is a national clinical entity, established by the recommendation of the Teleradiology Workgroup and the Chief Consultant for Diagnostic Services to address the radiologist staffing shortage across the VA system, and to effectively leverage the existing radiology manpower. The program is hosted by the VA Palo Alto HCS (PAHCS) and is currently headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with reading centers in three time zones. NTP eliminates the contracting process through a simple Memorandum of Understanding between NTP and the VA Medical Center. NTP employs VA staff radiologists providing quality, subspecialty interpretations to our nation's veterans. Currently serving over 30 VA Medical Centers, VA-NTP offers 24x7 operations with service-level agreements to ensure turn-around time and quality metrics to its customers.
About Health Level, Inc.
Founded in 2010, Health Level is a privately held company, headquartered in Mountain View, California. Foundations™ from Health Level, Inc. is the industry's first integrated real-time and multi-year correlation platform for clinical, operational and financial data. Focusing on data analytics and reporting for hospitals and healthcare systems, Health Level's mission to empower staff through user-friendly data analysis to improve transparency and efficiency.
For more information, please contact:
Parag Paranjpe
Phone: 650-996-3580
Email: parag@healthlevel.com
Website: http://www.healthlevel.com
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