Healthcare Analytics Consulting

Healthcare Analytics Consulting: From Data Strategy to Clinical Intelligence

The Algorithm's team has worked inside health systems, built analytics programs from scratch, and navigated the exact obstacles your team faces. This isn't a software implementation — it's a consulting engagement that happens to use the best available tool.

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What You Get

Specific Deliverables, Not Vague Promises

Most analytics implementations fail not because of technology, but because the implementation team doesn't understand what a quality director actually needs to see on a Monday morning. We build around clinical workflow — not around the software's feature list. The deliverable isn't a Vizier license; it's a working analytics program your team uses every day.

The Algorithm's consultants have managed analytics functions inside health systems, built quality reporting programs for multi-site physician groups, and navigated the specific challenge of getting clinical staff to adopt data tools. We understand why the dashboard graveyard exists and how to prevent it — because we've cleaned them up.

Your engagement begins with a current-state assessment that identifies exactly where your analytics program breaks down — whether that's data access, tool complexity, staff adoption, or measure configuration. From there, everything we build is calibrated to what your team actually needs to answer, not what looks impressive in a demo.

Current-state analytics assessment with gap analysis against clinical and financial reporting needs
Data strategy roadmap with prioritized use cases and ROI timeline
Vizier configuration for your specific measures, payer mix, and reporting requirements
Training program for clinical staff, quality teams, and administrators
90-day post-implementation optimization support
Documentation of all configured measures and query templates
The Consulting Difference

We Don't Just Hand You Software

The typical software vendor onboarding looks like this: a 90-minute Zoom walkthrough, a login, and a PDF user guide. Six months later, two people use the tool and the rest of the organization never logged in after week two.

Our engagement model is different because we configure Vizier around your specific clinical questions. Your quality director doesn't need a generic readmission dashboard — they need to see readmission rates for DRG 470 by attending physician, filtered to Medicare patients, compared to your state benchmark. That's what we build.

The Algorithm's team has direct experience with the clinical and administrative workflows that analytics tools need to support. When we configure a MIPS dashboard, we understand why your inverse measure performance looks counterintuitive. When we set up a readmission alert, we know which diagnosis codes actually predict 30-day return visits.

Software vendor
Hands you a login
The Algorithm
Implements alongside you
Generic BI
Teaches SQL
The Algorithm
Teaches clinical questions
Industry average
21% tool adoption
Vizier clients
80%+ adoption
Typical timeline
6–18 months
Our timeline
2–4 weeks
How It Works

Discovery, Configuration, and Sustained Adoption

STEP 01
Discovery & Assessment
We audit your current analytics environment — what data you have, what questions you can't answer, where reporting breaks down. We interview clinical staff, quality leads, and administrators to understand the actual workflow before touching a single configuration. This is where most implementations skip — and why they fail.
STEP 02
Configuration & Integration
We configure Vizier around your specific measures, payer mix, population, and reporting requirements. This means mapping your EHR export fields to the right clinical categories, setting appropriate thresholds for your patient population, and building the views your team will actually open each week. Not a demo — your data, your questions.
STEP 03
Training & Optimization
We train each role on the questions relevant to their work — not generic software training. Quality directors learn to track measure performance and identify outliers. Administrators learn to monitor operational metrics. Clinicians learn to pull their own patient lists. At 30 and 90 days, we review what's being used and refine what isn't.
Why Analytics Programs Fail

The Problems We're Hired to Solve

The Dashboard Graveyard
Your organization has 200 reports in Tableau or PowerBI. Twelve people use eight of them. The other 192 were built for presentations and never opened again. We audit which reports actually drive decisions, rebuild those in Vizier with clinical context, and don't recreate the rest.
IT-Gated Analytics
When a quality director needs a new report, they submit a ticket to IT, wait three weeks, get back a spreadsheet that answers a slightly different question, and repeat. Vizier's conversational interface lets clinical users ask clinical questions without involving IT. The Algorithm configures the clinical vocabulary so the answers make sense.
Measure Configuration That Doesn't Match Your Reality
Off-the-shelf MIPS dashboards calculate denominators without accounting for your specific patient exclusions, payer mix, or visit patterns. We configure measures to your actual reporting context — so your composite score in Vizier matches what CMS will calculate, not a generic approximation.
Training That Doesn't Transfer
Generic software training teaches button-clicking. We teach clinical users how to formulate questions, interpret what they see, and build data-driven habits into daily workflow. After our training, a quality director knows not just how to run a report — but what to do when the readmission rate spikes on Thursday.
Timeline & Outcomes

What to Expect and When

Most healthcare analytics implementations take 6–18 months and still don't achieve meaningful adoption. Our engagement completes the core configuration in 2–4 weeks, with your team running their own queries by week four. The 90-day optimization period ensures adoption holds — we check in at 30 and 90 days to refine what the team is actually using.

Week 1
Current-state assessment, data audit, stakeholder interviews, gap analysis report delivered
Weeks 2–3
Vizier configuration: measure setup, EHR data mapping, threshold configuration, dashboard builds
Week 4
Staff training by role — quality, clinical, administrative, revenue cycle tracks
Month 2+
Optimization check-ins at 30 and 90 days, measure refinement, new use case development
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data to first clinical insight
2–4 wks
typical implementation timeline
$0
per-seat licensing fees
80%+
typical adoption rate vs. 21% industry average
Who This Is For

Healthcare Organizations Ready to Stop Managing Spreadsheets

Multi-site Physician Groups
Groups with 5–50 providers across multiple locations who need consolidated quality reporting, provider benchmarking, and MIPS composite score visibility without building a separate analytics department.
Community Health Centers (FQHCs)
Federally Qualified Health Centers managing UDS reporting, HRSA measures, and payer quality incentive programs — often with limited IT resources and staff who wear multiple hats.
Health Systems and Hospitals
Mid-size health systems where IT owns analytics but clinical teams can't get the questions answered on their timeline. We build the layer that lets quality and clinical leadership operate independently from IT ticketing queues.
ACOs and Value-Based Care Organizations
Organizations with attributed patient populations in MSSP or other value-based arrangements, managing shared savings calculations, quality measure performance, and care gap closure across a distributed network of providers.
Specialty Practices
Orthopedic, cardiology, oncology, and other specialty practices with unique outcome tracking requirements that off-the-shelf analytics tools don't accommodate — and specialty-specific quality measures that generic MIPS dashboards miscalculate.
Rural Health Organizations
Critical access hospitals and rural health clinics with limited analytics infrastructure. We implement solutions that work with the data you have, not the data you wish you had — including CSV exports from aging EHR systems.
Related Services
MIPS Reporting →Readmission Prevention →Why Generic BI Fails Healthcare →
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Start With a Healthcare Analytics Assessment

Schedule a 30-minute consultation. We'll assess your current analytics environment, identify the three biggest gaps between what you can answer now and what you need to answer, and show you what Vizier looks like configured for your specific situation.