Over the past decade, Verras has developed its unique, physician-driven, clinical process improvement (CPI) method that enhances the quality and cost efficiency outcomes of physicians’ practice patterns and hospitals’ service lines.

The common language with which physicians communicate is clinical data. Verras’ physicians capitalize on this phenomenon as they interact with the hospital’s doctors using AIM’s severity-adjusted, patient-level information in conjunction with non-threatening educational techniques. This combination of education and clinical information produces experience-based, clinical process improvement at the physician and hospital service levels. The hospital’s physician leaders incorporate these techniques into their quality improvement activities to achieve quantifiable and sustained quality and efficiency enhancements.

Although many hospitals have attempted clinical pathways, the Verras approach is superior for a number of reasons. Physician acceptance is achieved because:

1. The clinical pathways are based on their own physician-driven, best-demonstrated practices, not on an externally generated set of ”cook-book recipes”.

2. Experience-based CPI concentrates on improving processes rather than on punitive ”good doctor vs. bad doctor” approaches.

3. Verras physicians work with the hospitals’ medical leaders to apply these processes and facilitate physician-to-physician communications in all of the hospitals’ clinical services.

4. Verras can supply chart-level data gathering templates that optimize the hospital’s Clinical Improvement Process.

• Documentation and Coding Enhancement Services
• Inpatient Physician (Hospitalist) Data Analysis Services
• Outpatient Surgery Clinical Services
• Hospital Competitor Analysis
• Service Line Opportunity Analysis