Delta Analytical Server
The Delta Analytical Server is designed to improve patient safety by trapping and annunciating adverse events and negative trends before they become critical.
Using advanced statistical analysis techniques, the Delta Analytical server monitors detailed key performance indicators associated with all aspects of the clinical treatment process. Measuring outcomes and alerting clinical leaders to adverse events is vital to achieving continuous process performance and ultimately delivering the best care possible. The Delta Analytical Server was designed to measure both prospective and retrospective results.
The Delta Analytical server uses the Delta Core Server as the core data repository. While patients are being treated, point of care information is gathered, validated and loaded into the database. Clinicians and researchers use a Microsoft.NET enabled web interface to configure a study analysis. (A typical study might investigate the rate of complications following surgery). Studies can be configured to run for a period of time – typically weeks or months in length or until a certain number of statistically valid samples are captured.
The system allows the user to specify risk adjustment models from a library or to enter their own customized models. Data can include previous cases, future cases or a combination of previous and future. While it is typical to capture 200 or more variables per case, normally only ten to twelve key performance indicators are needed to conduct a study.
Each time new patient records are entered into the database, the statistical engine recalculates the active studies. If a statistically significant trend or event emerges, the Delta Analytical Server will trigger an alert notifying the study designer and others interested in the results. Users can then peruse the analysis reports and graphs to explore the results in detail. Resulting data can also be exported to third party tools such as Excel and SAS.