Bamboo Health Saved Filters Catalog

Not sure where to start with saved filters? Check out common saved filter use cases used by the Bamboo Health community!

1. Identifying Patients on Your Current Floor

Why: Real-time alerts provide you with awareness of your patients’ care encounters, even when you’re not logged in to the Pings (a Bamboo Health Solution) platform so that you can act fast to coordinate your patients’ care.

How: 

1. In the filter pane on the left of your dashboard, click the blue carrot next to the current floor/ unit filter header to expand it. 
2. From here, you can select your floor by checking them off from the first five options listed; or by clicking show all options to select from all possible selections. 
   • If you’d like to receive notifications only for specific categories of events on your (eg admissions only), choose the applicable options from the current status filter as well. 
3. Once you’ve selected your floor, click create, and be sure to save and name your filter.
4. Turn on filter notifications via email or text to receive real-time alerts on these events!
   • Your new filter will now be listed under My Saved Filters!

2. Identifying High Utilizers

Why: This flag identifies patients who may benefit from a check-in from your population health management team regarding their ED utilization patterns and education on other, more appropriate sites of care for future care events.

How: 

1. In the filter pane on the left of your dashboard, scroll down and check off high utilizer under the Bamboo Health Flags header
2. Scroll up to save and name your filter; after you’ve entered the name of your filter, be sure to click save
3. Turn on filter notifications via email or text to receive real-time alerts on these events!
   • Your new filter will now be listed under My Saved Filters!

3. Identifying Recent SNF Stay Patients

Why: This flag highlights potential opportunities to discharge patients to SNF care without an additional three-overnight hospital stay.  It also informs the hospital staff of which SNFs are discharging back to your hospital.

How: 

1. In the filter pane on the left of your dashboard, scroll down and check off recent SNF stay under the Bamboo Health Flags header.
2. Scroll up to save and name your filter; after you’ve entered the name of your filter, be sure to click save.
3. Turn on filter notifications via email or text to receive real-time alerts on these events!
   • Your new filter will now be listed under My Saved Filters!

4. Identify Patients at Risk of Readmission

Why: This flag identifies opportunities to reduce potential readmission penalties. Filtering your dashboard to patients with the readmission risk flag allows you to intervene in real-time with treating providers in the ED or Observation. When clinically appropriate, patients identified under the readmission risk flag may require additional care coordination, ambulatory care, and/or community-based services to prevent readmission.

How:

1. In the filter pane on the left of your dashboard, choose the following filter criteria:
2. • Bamboo Health Flags: readmission risk
3. Turn on filter notifications via email or text to receive real-time alerts on these events!
   • Your new filter will now be listed under My Saved Filters!

5. Identifying Patients with the Diagnosis Associated with COVID-19 Flag

Why: This flag provides better transparency and insight into your patients with a diagnosis associated with COVID-19, allowing you and your team to determine care coordination next steps, and run reports to inform your COVID-19 management efforts.  

How: 

1. In the filter pane on the left of your dashboard, scroll down and check off COVID-19 under the COVID-19 header.
   • If you’d like to receive notifications only for specific categories of events (e.g hospital events, SNF events etc.), choose the applicable options from the facility type filter as well, or focus on a specific status (e.g. discharges), using the current status filter facet. 
2. Once you’ve selected the filter criteria, click create, and be sure to save and name your filter.  
3. Turn on filter notifications via email or text to receive real-time alerts on these events!
   • Your new filter will now be listed under My Saved Filters!