Glossary

Welcome to our glossary! This page contains definitions and related links for terms, acronyms, and abbreviations commonly used at Health Catalyst. To search for a specific term, simply enter it in the search box below.

Please note, this glossary does not include medical abbreviations or terms. For those, see Cashmere.

Terms

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Term	Definition
Accelerator	Targeted data visualization to support outcomes improvement work in a specific financial, clinical, or operational area, presented in a BI Tool such as Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, or QlikSense.
AD	Analytics Director - Health Catalyst Team Member assigned to a client organization to coordinate the overall analytic architecture, discover analytic insights, create an opportunity backlog, and assist the client with analytics best practices and application and platform adoption.
AE	Analytics Engineer - Health Catalyst Team Member assigned to a client organization to help deliver analytic applications and services and provide analytic continuity and support at all phases of deployment. Depending on client needs, this can include guiding and performing analyses to support outcomes improvement initiatives, presenting insights to stakeholders, delivering training, managing technical client projects, guiding data validation tests, and other duties as assigned.
Analytics accelerator	Targeted data visualization to support outcomes improvement work in a specific financial, clinical, or operational area, presented in a BI Tool such as Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, or QlikSense.
ARMUS	A suite of software with associated services to support clinical registries by streamlining data collection, data validation, data submission, and data analysis to reduce costs and drive improved clinical outcomes. See the data sheet for ARMUS for Hospitals and ARMUS for Societies and see the ARMUS Registries and Measures Docs.
ASO	Analytic Services Organization. A division of Health Catalyst that provides services to to deliver analytic insights to clients: valid, novel, actionable insights that help our clients move forward. The ASO exists to accelerate speed to value for Health Catalyst technology and enable clients to achieve world-class performance. Analytics Directors and Analytics Engineers are part of the ASO.
Atlas Data Governance	Web-based index of metadata stored in DOS, designed to assist in securing, organizing, controlling, and deriving value from data. See the Atlas documentation and data sheet.
Business Decision Support	A technology suite designed to highlight abnormal costs and provide accurate, precise, and consistent answers to support financial improvement. Includes three applications--PowerCosting, PowerLabor, and PowerBudget--along with analytics accelerators to meet a healthcare system's unique needs and integrated AI via Healthcare.AI. See the documentation for PowerCosting and PowerLabor PowerLabor, and the Business Decision Support data sheet.
Care Flow	Web-based application that provides end-to-end program management for care teams and their patients. See the documentation and data sheet.
Care Process Improvement Map	A document that provides a visual of the process of prevention and treatment for a specific clinical condition. It describes key best practices and suggested improvement focus areas, metrics, and assets.
Carevive Oncology Suite	A product suite that combines EHR data, electronic patient-reported outcomes(ePROs), and evidence-based guidelines in a single solution that supports capture and sharing of patient data and delivers timely clinical insight and support. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Cashmere	Health Catalyst's style guide, with downloadable icons and templates, design and usage guidance, and more.
Clinical Integration Hierarchy	Health Catalyst's proprietary hierarchy that groups work processes in a way that aligns with how care is actually delivered in most health systems. Instead of isolated hierarchies based on billing systems, organ systems, or medical specialties, the Clinical Integration Hierarchy leverages and combines these common hierarchies to achieve more meaningful work process groupings. These groupings allow clients to identify opportunities for improvement and assign multidisciplinary teams to pursue those improvements.
Cloud Services	Services made available to customers via the Internet from a vendor's servers reducing the need for an organization to provision its own resources to install, manage, and maintain the service. Health Catalyst Cloud Services follow the PaaS (Platform as a Service), a cloud model in which providers deliver applications over the internet and host users’ hardware and software on provider infrastructure.
CRStar	A cancer registry solution that provides actionable insights to help guide resource and accreditation management, planning, and cancer program growth decisions with an emphasis on quality and research. CRStar provides innovative casefinding, abstracting, data analytics, and informatics capabilities. See the data sheet.
CSL	Client Success Lead - Health Catalyst Leadership Team Member assigned to a client organization, responsible to manage client expectations and Health Catalyst resource needs, manage the delivery strategy execution, serve as an account/project manager, serve as a primary point of contact for daily operations work, and focus on delivering and memorializing success.
Data Mart	A custom set of data views created in Ignite that organizes, aggregates, and measures data in a specific area of interest, to be displayed in a visualization to support outcomes improvement work.
Data Operating System (DOS)	Health Catalyst’s legacy data platform that combines features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories, and health information exchanges (HIEs) to integrate real-time, granular data into a single computing ecosystem. DOS is vendor-agnostic, unlocking data trapped in diverse information systems that previously could not communicate with each other and separately lack the functionality needed to yield analytical insights. DOS is available in three configurations: Launch, Standard and Professional. See DOS documentation and the data sheet.
Data sheet	A brief description of a Health Catalyst product or service, describing the problem it solves, the approach it takes, and features and benefits. Data sheets for specific products are linked on this A to Z list where appropriate.
DOS	Health Catalyst's legacy Data Operating System. See the DOS documentation and data sheet.
DOS Marts	Intermediate-binding data models that draw from multiple healthcare source systems to aggregate data into domain-specific marts, available in DOS. See the DOS marts documentation and the data sheet.
EDW	Enterprise Data Warehouse. See this article.
Embedded Care Gaps	A fully EHR-embedded patient-visit solution combined with a world-class rules engine, designed to increase revenue by ensuring necessary procedures are performed, decrease costs by streamlining visits, and improve adherence capacity. See the data sheet.
Embedded Refills	An application (formerly Healthfinch Refills) that provides embedded medication renewal decision support directly in the EHR workflow, allowing providers and their staff to streamline prescription renewal workflows. See the data sheet.
Forest Plot+	A data visual, made possible through Healthcare.AI, that allows you to compare performance of several entities (facilities, procedure types, departments, DRGs, providers, etc.) over time, and uses a grouping variable to help you find entities that are similar. Forest Plot+ visuals incorporate sophisticated analytic techniques to ensure that comparisons between groups are statistically valid. See the documentation.
HCAT	Health Catalyst.
HCI	Health Catalyst Interoperability, a suite of products that extends traditional clinical data aggregation capability of most health information exchange (HIE) technology to foster easy use of the data and enabling actionable data. See the data sheets for HCI Exchange HCI Exchange, HCI Notify, HCI Clinical Messaging, and HCI Community Interchange.
Healthcare.AI	A product suite that provides one-button AI (augmented intelligence) access into existing business intelligence (BI) tools and applications; embeds statistical, AI, and healthcare rigor into your applications; and helps analysts produce higher quality, faster insights. See the documentation and the data sheet.
HYBRID Analytics	A software application that provides real-time, self-service longitudinal reporting based on data from the ARMUS Clinical Registry Software Platform—giving users insights into their data to drive clinical outcomes improvements. See the data sheet.
HYBRID Outcomes	A software application that enables you to collect and manage data in the ARMUS Clinical Registry Software Platform—through registry data entry, interoperability, data quality management, interfaces, and data submission. See the data sheet.
IDEA	A web-based software application that collects custom sets of data for instant entry into DOS or Ignite. See DOS IDEA documentation the Ignite IDEA documentation.
Ignite Data and Analytics	Health Catalyst's data ecosystem that combines best-in-class technologies, healthcare-specific data models, self-service tools, and industry expertise. See the Ignite documentation, data sheet, and the Ignite glossary.
Ignite UI	Application that serves as the hub for Ignite data monitoring, data ingest, and access to the technology tools that serve as a foundation for the Ignite data ecosystem. See the Ignite documentation, data sheet, and the Ignite glossary.
Lumeon Care Orchestration	A platform that delivers personalized care orchestration to help patients navigate their clinical journey. Lumeon Care Orchestration uses secure, bi-directional data integration and clinical logic to drive patients to the next best clinical action. See the data sheet.
Measurable Improvement	A meaningful, favorable change that has been quantified and approved by the organization. Meaningful = significant enough that it's worth presenting to your organization's leadership. Quantifiable = can be expressed as an amount, quantity, or numeric value.
MeasureAble	A quality measures application (formerly Able Health) that combines complete data, measures, visualizations, and workflows (measurement, improvement, and submission). MeasureAble calculates performance, displays a measure performance dashboard, and includes a submission engine that submits data to payers—all starting with data aggregated by DOS. See the MeasureAble documentation and the data sheet.
Ninja Universe	An end-to-end cloud native platform and set of applications purpose-built for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). See the documentation and the data sheet.
Okta	The single-sign-on application that provides access to our documentation. See the Okta website Okta website for more information about Okta. See hcc-help@healthcatalyst.com hcc-help@healthcatalyst.com if you need help signing onto Okta or creating an account.
Operations Console (Ops Console)	Part of our legacy Data Operating System (DOS), a web-based dashboard for data warehouse managers and data engineers to configure and schedule data loading jobs, load data into DOS, and monitor the health of the data warehouse. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Patient Safety Monitor	A web-based application that monitors incoming patient data from multiple sources, detects the magnitude and nature of harm or risk, and identifies variation in care delivery through automated surveillance (all-cause harm and public health triggers), voluntary incident reporting, and auditing. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Pop Analyzer	A visually-oriented application that allows users to define populations quickly, without using SQL coding, and supports ad-hoc analysis. Organizations can also use Pop Analyzer to author reusable population definitions that can be used for analytics initiatives in other applications, including feasibility analysis for research opportunities. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Pop Analyzer	Stratify: A data collection used within the Pop Analyzer application to identify patient groups for care management based on pre-defined and customizable populations and risk algorithms. Care team members can see the algorithm behind population definitions and adjust those definitions on the fly. See the data sheet.
Pop Insights	A self-service visualization and reporting tool that empowers users to discover and share data-driven insights without the help of advanced analysts or data scientists. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Pop Insights	Care Management: An expert data collection using operational and clinical information collected through daily care management activities, displayed within the Pop Insights application to show performance at each phase of the care management workflow. See the data sheet.
Power BI	Power BI is a technology-driven business intelligence tool provided by Microsoft for analyzing and visualizing raw data to present actionable information.
PowerCosting	A web-based application that delivers accurate and actionable data for activity-based costing to help users manage the true cost of care across the continuum.. See the documentation and data sheet.
PowerLabor	A web-based application that provides a comprehensive AI-equipped view of healthcare labor data by system, department, team, and job role, including special contract and pay categories. Embedded AI forecasting predicts patient volumes, allowing for proactive resource scheduling. See the documentation and the data sheet.
RWI	Results with Improvement See Measurable Improvement above.
SAE	Strategic Account Executive - Health Catalyst Leadership Team Member assigned to a client organization to oversee contractual discussions, work with the client organization's executive sponsor, provide guidance on governance, and act as an escalation point for the Client Success Lead.
SAM	Subject Area Mart - A custom data mart that organizes, aggregates, and measures data in a specific area of interest, to be displayed in a visualization to support outcomes improvement work, created for DOS, our legacy data platform. For the equivalent in Ignite, see Data Mart.
SAMD	Subject Area Mart Designer, or SAM Designer - Data mart architecting software tool in DOS, our legacy data platform. See the documentation and the data sheet.
SMD	Source Mart Designer -Data architecting software tool in DOS, our legacy data platform. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Source Mart Designer	data architecting software tool in DOS, our legacy data platform. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Sparklines+	A data visualization that combines multiple Time Series+ visuals for easier comparison and analysis of data. The Sparklines+ visual adds the rigor of Healthcare.AI to a traditional Sparklines chart to allow you to understand patterns, trends, and abnormalities across measures or groups over time. See the documentation.
SQL	Structured Query Language, the standard language for relational database management systems. SQL statements are used to update and retrieve data.
Subject Area Mart Designer	Subject Area Mart Designer, or SAM Designer - Data mart architecting software tool in DOS, our legacy data platform. See the documentation and the data sheet.
Support	Platform for submitting support requests for Health Catalyst products. See the Support Portal link.
Tech-Enabled Managed Services	A partnership framework in which a health organization transfers ownership and accountability for a functional area (people, technology, processes) to Health Catalyst. In return, Health Catalyst delivers the desired outcomes as a service. This arrangement allows each partner to focus on their core competencies enabling clients to gain near and long-term financial relief in a way that uniquely cares for their employees, aligns with their core mission, and delivers performance improvements over time. See the data sheet.
TEMS	Tech-Enabled Managed Services (see above).
Time Series+	The Time Series+ chart, enabled by Healthcare.AI, includes tools that provide additional insights so you can better understand patterns and abnormalities in your past data, see where performance is going, and understand your ability to demonstrate statistical change. See the documentation.
Touchstone	A national repository of granular data from Health Catalyst clients and third-party data sources that enables benchmarking, advanced comparative analytics, and real-world evidence analysis. Touchstone provides a central environment to monitor and benchmark your organization’s performance against other healthcare systems, and delivers those benchmarks to your enterprise data warehouse. See the data sheet.
Twistle Patient Engagement	Software that delivers personalized, step-by-step guidance to the patient’s mobile phone to keep them on track with their medical plan of care. Care teams are alerted via EHR inbox or a dashboard when patients deviate from the expected course of care so they may intervene before complications ensue; clinicians are more productive because they can to focus their time on patients needing greater support. See the data sheet.
Upfront	A product suite that uses clinical, sociodemographic, and patient-reported data to deliver personalized patient outreach messages. Its automated workflows streamline scheduling, referrals, and care transitions, and it provides real-time insights that help healthcare organizations identify care gaps, predict patient behaviors, and refine engagement strategies. See the data sheet.
User Persona	A profile of a typical user of technology, describing the user's motivations and needs. See the Cashmere User Persona page.
Value Optimizer	Web-based application that empowers healthcare leaders to optimize their strategy for value-based care (VBC). Value Optimizer delivers insights from claims data and enhanced by terminology, groupers, logic, and additional data from the Data Operating System to identify the most valuable opportunities for VBC performance improvement across the continuum. See the documentation and the data sheet.
VitalCDM	Application that handles your entire charge description master (CDM)—and all related data files—and consolidates those files into a single system that your team can view and manage. See the documentation and the data sheet.
VitalIntegrity	Web-based application that enables hospital systems to improve the hospital charge-capture process, capture more of your earned revenue, decrease A/R days and rebills, and detect and remedy compliance issues. See the documentation and the data sheet.
VitalKnowledge	Software that provides an organization's compliance, revenue, and coding teams with access to comprehensive and current medical coding information. It's readily accessible for any hospital personnel who need access to current coding, billing, and regulatory information. See the documentation and the data sheet.