Outcomes-based clinical analytics, designed for any care setting
Crimson IQ is a modular data analytics and business intelligence platform that helps healthcare organizations understand the actual cost of care at different levels: procedures, patients and physicians. Crimson IQ also supports quality of care and care variation reduction through risk adjustment modeling and benchmarking.
Crimson IQ brings together disparate data sets into one integrated platform with the flexibility to meet your health system’s unique needs now and in the future through 4 AI-enabled modules.

Crimson IQ modules
Choose from 4 powerful modules depending on your organization’s unique needs.
Quality and Utilization
We offer the data you need to improve hospital quality management and drive performance at the point of care.
Provider Review
Optimize your review and compliance processes with the next generation of workflow management.
Surgical Cost
Gain insights to improve surgical efficiency and maximize the revenue of your operating rooms.
Surgical Capacity
Optimize surgical scheduling and operating room utilization with data-driven analysis and insights.
Key features

Unmatched customizability
Crimson IQ is a modular solution suite that can be customized to best meet your analytics needs. Choose from one individual module addressing a specific need or multiple modules serving your entire data warehouse.
AI enablement and smart opportunities
Artificial intelligence is deeply integrated into each and every module, enabling users to quickly sift through complex data and access AI-enabled recommendations on targeted opportunities. The AI-Assist open chat feature provides quick access to insights for users.

Embedded consultation
All Crimson IQ clients are assigned to a dedicated Value Advisor to support tool utilization and optimization. This single point of contact brings subject matter expertise to connect data to insights and drive speed to value.

EHR integration
Optum integrates data into its clients' existing healthcare environments and EHR systems, enhancing workflow efficiency and benchmarking capabilities.

Proprietary risk adjustment modeling
Access over 400 risk adjustment and quality measures across inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory settings to inform product evaluations and value analyses. Our proprietary risk adjustment models consider patient demographic data to infer more accurate expected outcomes.

Robust benchmarking capabilities
Our unified reporting is built on Power BI, allowing for portability to other instances. Analyze live data directly from integrated sources, and utilize dynamic, multilevel filters for deeper analysis. Customize dashboards with various chart types, tables and KPIs.
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Key benefits
Discover how EIS can transform cost and quality outcomes for your organization.
Reduced care variation
Identify variations in care through cost-per-case analyses that integrates price, utilization and risk-adjusted quality outcomes.
Improved quality of care
Proactively track quality outcomes and analyze any opportunity areas to focus on and measure the efficacy of your interventions.
Lower total cost of care
Discover the root cause of unwanted utilization and optimize the usage of procedural resources through our analytics platform.
Our impact
Optum has helped its clients achieve impressive success and major cost savings
13:1 ROI
On average, clients see a 13:1 ROI to cost of membership.2
96% reduction in time spent on reviews
Clients have seen a 96% reduction in time spent processing more than 2,000 provider OPPE reviews.2
$1.8 million in cost savings
Clients experience an average $1.8 million in cost savings related to hospital quality initiatives.2
$790,000 saved
Clients realize an average $790,000 in cost savings related to care variation reduction.2
Related healthcare insights
White paper
Learn more about how Optum Enterprise Intelligence Suite (EIS) enables best practices for achieving operational excellence.
Case study
Learn how data insights helped 4 organizations transform their operations.
E-book
Optimize your physician review process to help save time, reduce costs and improve care quality.
Product information and resources
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1. Based on mutually agreed ROI between Optum and the client.
2. Based on mutually agreed-on ROI from all clients across 2019–2023.