iVantage Health Analytics® Launches Expanded Solution for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals

PORTLAND, Maine, Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iVantage Health Analytics, the leading provider of health analytic solutions for the new healthcare, has expanded its VantagePoints™ suite of analytic capabilities and advisory services to help rural and Critical Access Hospitals strategically manage through the financial, operational and regulatory demands of the new healthcare environment.

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The Rural Insights™ solution advances the company's established Rural Performance Management platform, offering turnkey access to detailed analytics and actionable reporting.  The new offering enables both executive and front-line hospital decision makers to access a modular set of data entry, reporting, benchmarking and analysis tools to support performance improvement activities. iVantage integrates data for individual hospital facilities with national data to provide a holistic view of financial, operational and quality measures. Rural Insights is amplified with resources for collaboration, advisory services, and networking support.

• Hospital Strength Index™
• Population Health
• Cost and Revenue Benchmarking
• Value Based care & Flex Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) support
• Geographical visualization platform
• Advisory strategic planning services
• KnowledgeWeb™ learning and collaboration resources

"We recognized the unique challenges confronting rural hospitals today and have reconfigured our offering.  Rural Insights provides robust decision-making information critical to tracking and managing quality and patient safety, patient satisfaction, operations and financial performance and, most important, is accessible and affordable," said John Morrow, Executive Vice President of iVantage.

iVantage offers extensive experience meeting the needs of the rural hospital marketplace.  The company maintains the largest proprietary repository of rural patient encounter data in the industry, combined with government, demographic, market and payor metrics.

About iVantage Health Analytics

iVantage is a leading provider of health care informatics and business analytics solutions that transform complex data into actionable business intelligence. The company's VantagePoints platform is used by hospital management teams to drive empirical and evidence based decision making. These tools are positioned at the center of a large market opportunity due to increased demand for meaningful data driven by new compliance based requirements and operational challenges of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"). For more information, visit www.iVantageHealth.com.

SOURCE iVantage Health Analytics