Clinical Integration Measures
Quality and Care Process
- Preventive health
- Tobacco Use Documentation and Plan
- Blood Pressure Check (Primary Care Only)
- BMI Documentation and Plan (Primary Care Only)
- At Risk Population
- Diabetes optimal care
- Hypertension optimal care
- Optimal vascular care
- Outcome Measures
- Potentially Preventable Complications
Readmission Measures
- Process Measures
- Recommendations to Outpatient Provider documentation completed
- 0-5 day hospital follow-up
- Outcome Measures
- Potentially Preventable Readmissions
- All Condition 30-day Unplanned Readmissions
Patient and Care Giver Experience
- MD Communications
- Overall Provider Rating
- Willingness to Recommend
- Access Composite
- Staff Courtesy/Respect
Care Process (Access)
- Percent given required same or next day appointments for non-routine or urgent needs
- Number of attributed patients using the ED or UC during business hours for less urgent needs
Emergency Department Visit Measures
- ED Visits Actual-to-Expected Ratio at primary care clinic level based on HCC
Integration Measures
- Percentage of ED visits in network (UCare and Pioneer claims data)
Specialty Specific Measures
- ED-High tech imaging rate – LBP
- ED/Neuro-IV tPA Administration
- GI-Adenoma Detection Rate (Female)
- GI-Adenoma Detection Rate (Male)
- Neurosurgery-ODI Discectomy/Laminectomy
- Neurosurgery-ODI Lumbar Fusion
- OBGYN-Primary C-Section Rate
- Pathology-Frozen Sections Turnaround
- Rehab-Non-surgical lumbar outcomes: ODI or FOTO
- Radiology-Mammography Callback Rate
- Oncology-Total Pathway Adherence
Measure Selection Criteria
- Start small, learn together and build from success
- Choose measures to affect population health
- Measures need to be collectively applicable to all specialties in the network
- Avoid missing opportunities to help patients
- Use established measures when possible
AIM Network measures
AIMN Approved Measures Specialty list: Lists measures for specific specialties.
If you have questions, please email Matt Timmel.
Clinical Information Systems
The Allina Integrated Medical Network aligns independent physicians and Allina Health to deliver market-leading quality and efficiency in patient care.
Project INFORM
The AIM Network INFORM database tracks quality, patient experience and observation measures for AIM Network member groups. AIM Network member practices may access INFORM data from our secure SharePoint site.
Connect HIE
Connect HIE is the health information exchange used by the AIM Network. The goal of Connect HIE is efficient exchange of data to achieve a unified, holistic view of patient data for clinicians. This enables clinicians to offer safer, more efficient, lower-cost care for patients.
Health information exchange materials:
- Active participants
- Clinical notes and reports
- Contributing participants
- Creating custom views
- Encounters
- Fact sheet
- Frequently asked questions – AIM Network member groups
- Frequently asked questions – patients
- Immunizations
- MyPatient List
- My Workspace
- Patient Care page
- Patient search
- Problems list
- Vitals
- Web browser technical specifications
Questions?
For questions or password resets, please email AIM Network.