Cooler days, improved dashboards: What’s new on DASH this October

October 30, 2024

October has arrived – bringing brisk mornings, changing leaves and that unmistakable fall atmosphere. As we dig into the season, here’s what’s happening on DASH. Feel free to email us with any questions. For DASH Premium Subscribers, please attend our bi-weekly meetings.

If you would like access to DASH Premium and your hospital is not subscribed, please reach out to Ed Phippen at edp@wsha.org for a live demo. (Ed Phippen)

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Readmissions dashboard and sepsis dashboard updates

The DASH team is hard at work analyzing how to make improvements to both the Readmissions and Sepsis dashboards. The goal is to make the dashboards easier to interpret, interact with and analyze your hospital’s readmissions and sepsis data.

DASH Premium

Hospital-level Custom Service Areas

We enabled functionality in all our Explorers to analyze data from the perspective of custom service areas at the hospital level. This is in addition to the ability to view from a system custom service area perspective, as well as no custom service areas. The default is set to “No”.

Hospital custom service area functionality will be available in all relevant dashboards by Nov. 13 when we next refresh our Dashboards and Explorers. Read more about using hospital-level custom service areas. We will also upload these documents to our Resource Hub on Dash. We will also be uploading this documentation to our Resource Hub on DASH soon. If you have any questions or concerns about data refreshing old content with this change, please contact the DASH Premium team at dashpremium@wsha.org.

PNWPop Submission Status Dashboard Updates

We added three new features to the PNWPop Submission Status Dashboard:

1. Complete Record – Previously, users could view submissions from the past 36 months. We have added the ability to view the complete record of submissions, allowing users to view data as far back as 2019, the beginning of our PNWPop collection period.

2. Department Flags: Users can now filter to five of our most used Department Flags, allowing users to see submission volumes among claims in each department.

3. New Metrics for the Overview Volume view: We previously had just percent of total, which was helpful to understand any significant volume shifts month to month by a facility. We have added three new metrics, allowing for different perspectives of that submission data. By using these new metrics, users can parse out new insights on how the volume of submitted claims has changed month to month.

Base MS DRGs in Marketshare Explorer

We added Base Diagnosis Related Groups (MS DRGs) to the Marketshare Explorer. Base MS DRGs are groupings of MS DRG code descriptions. By trimming out the complications portion of the description, you can view the “Base” MS DRG as one type of service.

Resource Hub

The DASH Premium team continued improving our user experience while using DASH Premium. We will be making many enhancements to the website, including but not limited to:

  • FAQ page and glossary improvements
  • Updated infographics describing key pieces of data, such as Service Line Categories and Service Lines
  • Tutorials for Dashboards and Explorers
  • More keywords to filter Dashboards or Explorers when searching for specific content
  • Guided documentation on how to interact with Dashboards and Explorers
  • Formatting fixes and updates

This work will provide users with more guidance and information when interacting with our Dashboards and Explorers. New enhancements will be added incrementally through December. If you have any suggestions on resources you would like to see on DASH Premium, contact Danny Lunder at dannyl@wsha.org and Jessica Jenkins at jessicaj@wsha.org. (Danny Lunder)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Service Area Dashboard not calculating percentiles correctly
  • Fixed a bug with categorizing a small amount of (less than one percent of claims) Dual Eligible patients in the Payer Category field. Patients were categorized as Dual Eligible, and now they are correctly categorized as their respective Payer Category. Of the claims that changed, most went from Dual Eligible to Medicare.
  • Found and fixed an issue with nulls in our Trauma Department Flag. All claims now have a corrected value for Trauma Department Flag
  • Fixed a bug in the 2024 MQI Program Tracker, where some measures’ statuses were not populating correctly

(Danny Lunder)

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