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From Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Enterprise

From Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Designer

Within an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian installation, there can be a number of models. These are displayed in the model dropdown list. There can be different configuration settings set up in different Ideagen Healthcare Guardian models.

The model initially displayed will be the model you were in before you opened the Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Administrator Application.

Measures

The Measures menu lists all the measures within the model, and shows information such as the measure name, code, description, uses, aliases and whether the measure is universal.

Uses - Indicates the number of objects a measure is associated against. By clicking on the measure to open the quick edit panel, the ‘show associated objectives’ (under measure type) will display the name of the object the measure is associated against. As the status measure is automatically added to each object, the number of uses of the status measure indicates the number of objectives in the system.

Aliases - When a Measure is added to an Object, it can be assigned an alias. The alias represents the name that is used to identify the measure in that specific object. If you wish, the same measure can be given different aliases when added to different objects. This column counts how many different aliases are used across Ideagen Healthcare Guardian for a measure.

Universal - Denotes whether the measure is a universal measure or a non-universal measure.

Measure Settings

Most of the settings for measures can be varied for each object, such as performance scheme, and tolerance values. The exceptions to this are the measure name and the unit; these must be consistent in all objects. Editing these properties will apply to all instances of the measure. The default tolerance type, tolerance method and accumulation/aggregation method can also be amended, which will apply to all uses of the measure in objects from this point onwards.

Measure Name - To change the measure name, simply select the measure to open the quick edit panel and name the measure name. A measure name cannot exceed 100 characters, including specials and spaces. If you change the measure name, then the name is updated in all objects that reference the measure by its old name.

The old measure name will be deleted from the system when you save your changes. Objects that reference the measure using a different alias are not affected and will continue to reference it using the same alias they used before. However, ‘update all instances of the measure to use this name’ will remove any aliases in use for that measure.

Measure code (optional - a default value will automatically be assigned if you do not specify a value when creating a new measure). Measures with codes that begin with a # symbol have a special meaning within Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Applications. You cannot update codes that begin with a # symbol, nor can you create or change a measured code in such a way that the code begins with a # symbol.

Description - This represents the default description that will be used whenever the measure is added to an object using the Web application.

Unit – Sets the unit for the measure. Click the ellipsis button (…) to the right of the Units drop-down if you want to define a new unit. See text-based units for further information.

Accumulation – Default Accumulation Method for the measure when added to objects.

Aggregation – Default Aggregation Method for the measure when added to objects.

Tolerance Type – Default Tolerance Type (bigger is Better, Smaller is Better, Plan is Best) for the measure when added to objects.

Tolerance Method - Default Tolerance Method (% variance from target, absolute variance from target, absolute value) for the measure when added to objects.

Measure Type (Universal) - When a measure is set up as a universal measure, Ideagen Healthcare Guardian maintains only a single set of values for the measure. These same values are used in every Object to which the measure is added.

The main characteristics of a universal measure are:

• Only a single set of measure values exist regardless of the number of objects that the measure has been added to
• Updating any Object Measure value for the measure will change its value for all other objects that the measure is used in - this is true even if the different objects are not linked in any way by part-whole or derived function relationships.
• The same planning pattern, calculated series source, derived formula, accumulation method, tolerance type, benchmark series and workflow-related information are used wherever the measure is used in an object. If you edit any of these properties for one of the measures Object Measures, it will be updated for all others.
• The universal measure can be given different alias names when used in different objects.
• If a universal measure includes benchmark series, tolerance settings can be defined for each of the benchmark series. You can define different tolerance settings for these benchmark series for each usage of the universal measure in an object.
• When updating a universal measure for a specific object, a user must have permission to update that specific object measure. When the user saves the changes, the application will update all instances of the measure in all objects, regardless of whether the user has permission to update these other objective measures.

Universal measures are useful when you need to include identifying information in several objects without linking the objects using part-whole relationships or derived formulae and without any kind of aggregation being necessary.

If you edit an existing measure and change it from being universal to non-universal (regular), then separate measure values are created for the measure in all objects for the measure is used. These values can be processed independently, and the restrictions described above for universal measures no longer apply.

If you edit an existing non-universal measure to make it into a universal measure, then if the measure is already being used by several objects, a list of all of these is displayed. You are then prompted to select one of the object measures that should be used as a data source for the universal measure. All instances of the measure are then updated so that they use the same measure values, planning pattern etc as the selected Object Measure. The universal measures' restrictions apply to all uses of the measure within all objects.

Deleting a Measure

To delete a measure from an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Model, simply click on the ‘bin’ icon. If a measure remains associated with an object, Ideagen Healthcare Guardian will display those objects and require confirmation that you wish to delete the measure. Deleting measures will all data stored against all instances of the measure.

IMPORTANT: This action cannot be undone without restoring your Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Model.