Risk Navigator
Risk Navigator by CaraSolva Clinical Risk Index Tool digitizes and supports acuity assessments and treatment planning. Identifying which clients are on the verge of a medical complication or need for a higher level of care is often a manual, intuitive process.
Our proprietary tool leverages HealthAnalytics and the daily documentation your agency already captures. It applies a sophisticated model of sixteen weighted risk factors to your data, automatically flagging individuals at high, moderate, or low risk of complications.
Scores update every 24 hours, presenting a new “risk board” each morning. Intra-category flags show specific risk factors—like medication use or recent health events—providing an objective, evidence-based foundation for intervention.
Move from reaction to prevention. See how Risk Navigator supports clinical decision making and helps you prevent negative outcomes before they occur.
Risk Navigator: From Reaction to Prevention
What Health Factors are Considered?
Risk Navigator generates a risk score using risk factors in four key categories.
- Clinical Acuity: Analyzing diagnoses, vitals, and current health status.
- Medication Risk: Tracking PRN usage, polypharmacy, and medication refusals.
- Utilization & Events: Monitoring recent medical leaves, falls, and hospitalizations.
- Chronic Risk Factors: Accounting for age-related factors and long-term treatment patterns.
Understanding the Risk Score
Scores update every 24 hours to help you visualize contributing factors and personalize interventions.
- Daily Assessment: Risk Navigator considers each factor for which data is available and assigns every client a risk score of Low, Moderate, or High Risk.
- Actionable Insights: On your risk dashboard, you can see exactly which risk factors are contributing to the score for each client.
How to Use Risk Navigator
Supplement your clinical decision-making and target interventions amidst staffing challenges.
- Identify Invisible Risk: Catch at-risk clients who “fly under the radar” before a health crisis develops.
- Targeted Care: Direct specific interventions and follow-up care where it is needed most.
- Strategic Staffing: Utilize risk data to set staffing patterns and appropriate staff ratios.
- Advocacy: Use data to advocate for the appropriate level of care to payers and families, during hospitalizations or transition planning.
- Emergency Responses: Guide event-related actions with tailored protocols for “high-risk versus moderate-risk clients.
What Risk Navigator is NOT
It’s a tool for clinical decision support—not a replacement for professional licensure or judgment.
- Not a Substitute for Judgment: It does not replace your professional experience or your familiarity with your clients.
- Not a Substitute for Licensed Care: It is not a replacement for direct assessment and care by a licensed provider.
- Not a Magic Wand: The risk score cannot account for information that is not available or documented in CaraSolva.
Optimize Your Results
The more information documented in CaraSolva, the more accurate the risk scores will be.
- Comprehensive Profiles: Update client profiles to include all diagnoses, not just “primary” or psychiatric diagnoses.
- Detailed Tracking:
- Track vital signs and care tasks (tube feedings, wound care, medical device use).
- Use the “reasons for leave” feature to track hospitalizations.
- Track all medications, including antibiotics and short-term meds.
- System Health: Contact us for a system health check-up, and check out CareSupport® or BehaviorSupport® to expand your data tracking.
Development & Methodology
Developed by experts in I/DD, behavioral health, and nursing, validated against real-world data.
- Expert Team: Created by a team including nursing, pharmacy, research, risk management, and health data analytics experts.
- Trusted Sources: Based on material from the WHO, CDC, CMS, and independent research groups.
- Population-Specific: Risk factors were adjusted for the specific needs of our community (e.g., adjusting “older age” metrics to 50+).
- Rigorous Testing: The algorithm was tested against real-world data and refined via focus groups of nurses currently using CaraSolva.