Training


PATS® Basic Training

Three-day or four-day training session on basic features and functions of PATS®. Delivered onsite. Scheduled at time of initial implementation. Attendees include PATS® users and database managers, as well as other key staff involved in use, administration or oversight of outcomes data (e.g., physicians, service line directors, etc.). Hands-on instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum covers menus, toolbars and icons; desktop personalization; general navigation; registry design and customization; data categorization and question grouping; data collection forms; data entry and editing; basic data mining; and patient grouping. Curriculum also covers essential analysis and reporting, including individual patient profiling; patient population profiling; physician profiling; single group, multiple group and cross tabulations; initial descriptive statistics; M&M; and flow sheets. Additionally, as applicable, curriculum covers ACC and/or STS data audit, harvest and submission; UNOS UNet™ data management for organ transplantation; and/or SF health surveys and other scoring systems. Class size limited to 12.


PATS® Advanced Training

Two-day or three-day training session on advanced features and functions of PATS®. Delivered onsite. Scheduled three to six months following initial implementation. Attendees include PATS® users and database managers, as well as other key staff involved in use, administration or oversight of outcomes data (e.g., physicians, service line directors, etc.). Hands-on instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum covers high-level, multi-faceted analysis and reporting, including control charts; T-tests; actuarial curves; risk stratification; ROC curves; cumulative sum; runs analysis; extended descriptive statistics; extended tabulations; chi-square; Bayesian predictive modeling; and risk-adjusted trends (VLAD plots). Curriculum also covers data validation and cleanup; advanced data mining; automated macros; data graphing; image linking and annotation; document template construction (for H&Ps, op notes, referral letters and discharge summaries, etc.); registry-to-registry data transfer; and ODBC data extraction and export. Class size limited to 12.


PATS® Refresher Training

Two-day to four-day training session on basic and/or advanced features and functions of PATS®, depending on need. Delivered onsite. Scheduled any time, upon request. Attendees include PATS® users and/or database managers, as well as other key staff involved in use, administration or oversight of outcomes data (e.g., physicians, service line directors, etc.), at discretion of customer. Hands-on instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum covers any one or more topics as described above for PATS® Basic Training or PATS® Advanced Training. Class size limited to 12.


PATS® Continuing Education

Two-hour to four-hour interactive webinar sessions on specialized features and functions of PATS®. Delivered via Internet. Scheduled on regular basis, with dates and times posted at Axis Clinical Software UserWEB Center. Attendees include mix of PATS® users and database managers from customer organizations worldwide. Illustrative instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum focuses on intricate details of one specific topic, such as M&M reporting, predictive risk methodologies, trending tools, data cleanup or registry design. Audience size limited to six or eight, first-come, first-serve, with advance online registration. (Private webinar sessions available upon request.)


PATS® Security Training

One-hour training session on PATS® security management. Delivered onsite. Scheduled in conjunction with PATS® Basic Training, at time of initial implementation. Attendees include PATS® database managers and/or system administrators. Hands-on instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum covers all aspects of security, including user account setup (login IDs); multi-tiered individual and group/role-based privileges; password configuration and expiration intervals; auto logoff periods; and account activation/deactivation. Curriculum may also cover, as applicable, audit trail monitoring, querying and reporting.


PATS® Import Training

One-day training session on PATS® Import Module. Delivered onsite. Scheduled at time of initial implementation or add-on purchase. Attendees include PATS® users responsible for managing data import from scanned documents or external source applications. Hands-on instruction and tutorial by Axis Application Specialist/Trainer. Curriculum covers delimited data file structure, creation and conversion; import template properties, design and construction; data mapping and transfer; and transaction, warning and exception reports. Class size limited to 12.