Informatics Program Overview

Standard Reporting and Analytics | Standard Reports | Standard Analytics | Strategic Informatics | Measuring for Success

Standard Reporting and Analytics

Alere offers robust reporting capabilities to prove the value of our disease management and wellness programs. Quarterly, biannual and annual reports provide clinical and financial outcomes for your current programs. Valuable custom ad hoc reports, developed by experienced clinical, actuarial and informatics experts can assist in the decision support process.

Available reports provide valuable information that can be used to make further healthcare – related decisions such as the following:

• A description of the most frequently occurring and most costly health risks and chronic conditions developed from insurance claim data
• An overview of employee risk groups across your population using both claims and questionnaire-derived data
• Direct measured healthcare costs for each major chronic condition and the estimated economic impact of health risk in your population
• Benchmark performance in clinical, utilization and financial dimensions, to assist in planning individual program components
• Estimated costs from absenteeism and presenteeism associated with identified health risks and chronic conditions
• The impact of interventions on health costs and employee productivity
• Available interventions to improve health, improve productivity and reduce costs
• Consultation around which health risks and chronic and high-cost conditions should be targeted

Standard Reports

Examples of standard reports provided by Alere include the following:

Quarterly Online Suite

• Operational indicators of ongoing program performance including employee enrollment, participation and program activity
• Clinical indicators of population compliance with evidence-based guidelines
• Utilization statistics for the managed population
• Lifestyle and chronic condition impact measures

Semi-annual Suite

• All impact measures and performance indicators described above
• Financial summary and value of investment (VOI) analysis

Standard Analytics

Alere’s healthcare informatics experts interpret aggregated and standardized data to establish and analyze the health risk and chronic condition risk segments within a client population. They next define a risk profile for each segment based on identified deviations from evidence-based, nationally-recommended guidelines of care including preventive screenings, management and the treatment of chronic conditions, and the appropriate use of monitoring of drug therapies.

Additionally, Alere can provide a customized Ad Hoc Analytics Service Suite
that includes:

• Detail Data Feeds
• Special Project Analysis
• Extended Analytic Services

Strategic Informatics

After you receive our reports on your existing programs and services, we can additionally provide expert advice to help you interpret and translate the data into meaningful information that can be used to make future decisions about your healthcare benefits. In addition to our informatics specialists, we also have relationships with industry consulting firms who can bring additional expertise to our clients and to a special internal unit of interpretive consultants designed to review reports available to clients with them to optimize and leverage their impact.

Together with our strategic partners, we provide in-depth analyses of your data and expert advice around program and services that best meet the needs of your organization. Our dedicated advisors offer expertise in healthcare measurement methodologies as well as current clinical guidelines and benefit design.

We have this capability because we offer one of the most robust databases available anywhere in the industry, which we leverage to address unique situations. While most health data organizations truncate data, which severely limits the effectiveness of the resulting information and knowledge, Alere takes the time to cleanse and normalize the claims, pharmacy, laboratory, participant and physician-derived data before storing it in our data warehouse. Because we retain complete data, we have the unusual ability to offer a wealth of historical information to be used for benchmarking, continual program improvements and the future optimization of your health programs.

The rich content of our data and information, coupled with our clinicians, actuaries or experts of healthcare consulting, give us the unique opportunity to deeply examine all aspects of your healthcare processes.

Measuring For Success

Alere leads the way in industry best practices for outcomes analyses within all of our health, wellness and productivity enhancement services. The rigorous methodologies we have developed for our disease management and wellness programs set the standard for the highest level of accountability across the industry.

Literature and empirical studies have shown that improvement in clinical performance leads to improved economic performance. Alere’s data confirms this fact. We have analyzed more than 250 employer accounts and 25 health plan accounts, the large majority demonstrating positive financial returns, clinical outcomes and satisfied members.

That is what makes us different — our ability to measure the impact and success of our program and report back to our clients with actual analyses and interpretations of their data, all designed to further improve program performance and clinical and financial outcomes.

To learn how Alere can reduce costs and improve quality of care by enhancing health for your organization, contact your local Alere representative or call 800-456-4060 for more information.