Performance Measurement & Improvement
The current situation
Measuring performance against clear, quantifiable metrics is critical to improving quality of care and maximizing efficient use of healthcare resources. As such, it is essential to determine which processes, biomarkers, or outcomes accurately reflect quality of care and to identify the cut-off points of these measures that indicate whether or not the desired level of quality is being delivered.
In order to design the most effective performance measures, policy makers need quantitative information about the effects of different metrics and treatment targets on morbidity, mortality, utilization, and costs. Because of the complexity and costs involved, it is not feasible to obtain this information through clinical trials or other empirical methods.
The Archimedes advantage
The Archimedes Model is a large-scale, carefully validated simulation model of human physiology, diseases, behaviors, interventions, and healthcare systems. It is ideally suited to analyze performance measures that span collections of conditions, such as cardio-metabolic risk or cancer, because all of the conditions, biomarkers, processes, and treatment targets are incorporated in a single integrated model that uses a consistent methodology.
How you can use the Archimedes Model
Cardio-Metabolic Risk (CMR) Forecast Dataset. The CMR dataset provides data from 19 simulated trials that addressed 20 interventions for cardio-metabolic risk in U.S. patients. It includes a range of processes and treatment targets related to cardio-metabolic risk, incorporating information on current levels of performance based on national data sets. Using CMR, you can study the effects of closing the gap between current levels and 100% performance. More...
ARCHeS Innovator. ARCHeS Innovator is a web-based tool you can use to run simulations of different levels of performance relating to management of hypertension, glycemia, lipids, smoking, weight, or aspirin use in different populations using the Archimedes Model. More...
Archimedes IndiGO. IndiGO is a decision support tool that creates individual intervention and behavioral recommendations for patients. It is not used for measuring performance, but its output can be used as an overall measure of quality based on outcomes and that spans a wide range of conditions, interventions, and biomarkers relating to a particular class of outcomes such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes. More...
Modeling & Consulting Services. Archimedes provides comprehensive support to help you run custom simulations. For questions that cannot be addressed with ARCHeS Innovator, CMR, or IndiGO, our team of scientists and physicians will work with you to incorporate additional conditions and interventions, or extend the Model to a deeper level of physiological detail to suit your needs. More...
