Phrase Investigator

Conduct a thorough investigation.

You start with a hunch about how care is delivered. Phrase Investigator builds the cohort, tests the hunch against your EHR data, and returns a written report with the figures to back it up.

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I have a hunch that

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Inpatient length of stay before and after extended MRI hours

Figure 1Inpatient length of stay before and after extended MRI hours

Monthly mean length of stay, adult inpatients with an MRI order, control limits from before the 2025-03 change

Takeaway

Your hunch holds. Across 31,240 adult inpatient encounters with an MRI order (Jan 2024 through Aug 2026), length of stay averaged 5.6 days and stayed within control limits before MRI hours were extended in March 2025. Since then every month has run above that baseline, and 8 months have crossed the upper control limit.

Why investigate

When the C-suite asks for analyses, give them insights—and deliver it before the meeting ends.

Save tickets and queues for the large projects. When a business question arises, answer it in real time. Unlike other tools, which deliver spreadsheets or charts, Phrase Investigator delivers a report — the kind a consultant would deliver.

Your sources of truth

Define your sources of truth once.

Never deliver multiple versions of the same metric again. Phrase Investigator applies your definitions to every report it generates. What is a heart failure patient? What counts as a readmission? How turnaround time is clocked? Two investigations never disagree about who was counted—or how.

Knowledge library

3 definitions

Heart failure definition

✓Certified

Cohort · v3 · Approved by Quality

Readmission definition

✓Certified

Event · v2 · Approved by Finance

Turnaround time definition

✓Certified

Metric · v4 · Approved by Lab

Applied to every report Phrase Investigator generates

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Question refinement

An answer is only as good as the choices behind it.

Other tools hand you a number with no way to tell what decisions produced it. Phrase Investigator surfaces the choices that would change the answer, asks you to make them, and suggests the questions you should be asking next.

Today 1:31 PM

trying to find where the nursing documentation burden is. in a nursing shift, how many flowsheet fields are entered per nurse, by department?

Before I run this, I need four decisions from you. Department is only filled in on about 15% of registered nurse entries in the last 90 days, so a by-department view covers only that slice.

Who is a nurseWhich filers should count as nurses?Minimize

Registered Nurses only Recommended

The largest group, about 4,500 people in the last 90 days, and the cleanest definition of a nursing shift.

RNs plus Licensed Nurses

Adds the small Licensed Nurse group (about 35 people).

All nursing roles

Adds nursing aides, technicians, nursing students and nurse practitioners. Mixes in roles with different workloads.

Other…

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Due diligence

Built with safety and trust in mind.

Before any AI tool reaches your users, you need to be sure of three things: what data it touches, whether people will question what it tells them, and whether it respects the data layer you have already built.

No patient identifiers

Every investigation runs on de-identified data and returns aggregates, never patient-level records. Your data stays private.

Trust, but verify

Each report spells out its methods, how the cohort was defined, and what was excluded. Any finding can be checked and reproduced.

Built on your curated layer

Connect Phrase Investigator to your curated data model, or use ours. Works with Databricks, Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric.

What's your hunch?

Bring a question to a walkthrough. We'll investigate it on your data and walk you through the report.