Here is a great way to extend value of your TRENDSTAR system, by grouping your physicians into more meaningful practice groups and also supplying "aliases", so you can report on individual physician performance without singling anyone out. Unlike summary tables or the physician file, this approach works with any physician data field you have, and you can even add more data or additional groupings.

The physicians in those groups might be responsible for the referral, the admission, the discharge, the primary surgical procedure or perhaps were the primary care physician, the consulting physician, or a combination of several roles. You may additionally want to compare the performance of your own health network physician groups v. that of those non-network groups who are very much a part of your health system.

In this mini-engagement, we use your existing physician practice group data, and show you how to easily set up the fields that you would like to bring into TRENDSTAR into a Benchmark format, build the Benchmark tables, and then automate the maintenance process so that anytime there is a change to the Physician practice group list, that information is easily and readily available in TRENDSTAR.