ACG® System: DATA ANALYTICS

One of the most widely used population health analysis and management tools.

THE CHALLENGE

When seeking to improve the health of a population, you need a proven analytics tool to help you understand your populations’ health, set budgets or capitation rates, evaluate provider performance, and assess outcomes of care.

THE SOLUTION

The Johns Hopkins ACG System is a unique morbidity measuring approach that improves accuracy and fairness in evaluating provider performance, identifying patients at high risk, forecasting health care utilization and setting equitable payment rates. It is available for all types of users, including those from the commercial, governmental, and academic spheres.

The Johns Hopkins ACG System offers a unique approach to measuring morbidity in large populations that improves accuracy and fairness in evaluating provider performance, identifying patients at high risk, forecasting health care utilization and setting equitable payment rates. Solution applications include:

• Care Management—including:
  • Case management
  • Disease management and
  • High-risk case identification
• Provider profiling (performance assessment)
• Financial analysis
• Population profiling.These applications have been both real-time and forward-looking. They may involve simple spreadsheet calculations or complex multi-variable statistical models.