Data Products
THA offers data programs that help Texas hospitals improve operations and patient care. Combining Texas and national data with proven analysis tools, these programs enable hospitals to benchmark services to compare outcomes and profitability, target areas for improvement, make critical business decisions, and improve overall performance. Plus, not only do hospitals benefit individually, member participation in THA data programs plays a vital role in the success of advocacy efforts by substantiating our positions.
THA Patient Data System (PDS)
Data and tools from Solucient that enable you to benchmark your hospital’s services for improvement and make critical management decisions. The program’s integrated statewide patient discharge (UB-92) data provides a complete picture of utilization in any market. Using customized reports and complete database services, you’ll be able to track patient migration and better manage your service lines. Plus, quarterly PDS data is released earlier than data from other sources and features physician identifiers that enable profiling. Managed by HealthShare/THA, a THA subsidiary. Learn more.
New to THA PDS – The Polaris Suite
The Polaris Suite is a powerful new suite of tools from Solucient that links business and clinical issues, so you can pinpoint improvement opportunities. With a single point of entry and a common platform for market share, clinical quality and resource utilization, THA's Patient Data System now puts all the tools you need for system-wide data analysis, collaboration and decision-making right on your desktop.
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THA PDS Participants:
Already have your Polaris User ID and password?
Click here to start using the New THA Patient Data System, featuring Polaris.Acquire your Polaris login information by contacting Solucient's Michelle Jumper at 925/686-6257 or mjumper@solucient.com.
THCIC Reporting: Click here for a list of the data required by Texas' revised mandatory reporting rules and a link to detailed instructions for submitting THCIC-required data through THA's PDS.
Solucient Data Products
Through HealthShare/THA, THA members enjoy special pricing on high-quality data products from Solucient that facilitate performance-improvement in a variety of areas. Solucient’s health care database is the largest in the nation, featuring more than 22.6 million discharges per year from 2,900 hospitals — representing 77.5 percent of all discharges. Using Solucient’s data and tools, you’ll gain the information you need to decrease costs, increase quality and efficiency, enhance reimbursement, and generally improve your hospital’s performance.
Quality-Improvement
Reimbursement Management
Information Management
Patient Satisfaction Benchmarking
Surveys and data from Press, Ganey Associates that reveal your patients’ opinions about your services and enable you to make changes that improve satisfaction and, as a result, your hospital’s performance. The system measures patient experiences in a wide range of health care settings and delivers comprehensive analyses and data for benchmarking to internal, regional, and national best practices. Press, Ganey Associates is endorsed by HealthShare/THA, so THA members are assured of high quality and enjoy special pricing.
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Texas Nurse Workforce Data System
A series of reports that identify the factors causing the nursing shortage in Texas and provide information hospitals can use to improve their staffing. In addition to statistics on supply and demand and their relationship to socioeconomic and epidemiological characteristics, the reports include details on factors that affect nurse retention. The data was developed through a partnership among the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research (THA’s nonprofit foundation), the Texas Nurses Foundation, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Center for Health Economics and Policy.
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Order reports from the Texas Nurses Association Web site.
