Concise
Build your quality measures program the Concise way.
Concise is cloud-based QAPI (Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement) program software for hospitals and clinics. You build the quality measures you want to track, each department enters its own data, management reviews and approves it, and dashboards and reports show exactly where every measure stands.
Every measure on track. Every department accountable.
Free for 6 months with Canopy Surveys
Every purchase of Canopy’s Patient Experience Surveys includes six months of Concise. Measure the experience with your surveys, then track the work you do about it here — on one platform, with one team.
What is Concise?
Concise is where your quality measures program lives. You create the measures that matter to your hospital, assign them to departments with their own targets, and watch data flow in, get reviewed, and turn into reports — in real time, from any device.
It replaces the spreadsheet-and-binder version of QAPI that most small and rural hospitals run today. (New to QAPI altogether? Start with our guide: What is QAPI?)
The spreadsheet way
- Numbers chased down at month-end
- Figures nobody ever double-checked
- The program lives in one person's binder
- Reports rebuilt for every annual review
- No view of where measures actually stand
With Concise
- Every measure has an owner and a target
- Data reviewed before it reaches reports
- The whole program lives in one dashboard
- Reports exported in minutes, any time
- Traffic-light view of every measure's status
Your quality measures command center.
Measures you define
Percent, count, or amount — weekly, monthly, or quarterly. You set the target and the threshold; Concise tracks against it.
Department-level accountability
Assign a measure to any department — each gets its own target, its own data entry, and its own progress view.
A real review workflow
Approve data or send it back with a note explaining what to fix. Nothing enters your reports unreviewed.
Reminders that run themselves
Missing data triggers an automatic Monday-morning email to the right department. No chasing.
Traffic-light dashboards
Every number reads green, yellow, or red against its target, so problems surface at a glance.
Reports in minutes
Department, measure, or whole-program reports — chart-ready, printable, and exportable for your annual quality review.
What can you track with Concise?
The measures your hospital already cares about — on the schedule and targets you choose:
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Patient falls
Count falls by unit, monthly, against your own baseline.
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Medication errors
Track error counts and watch whether interventions actually work.
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Infection control
Hand hygiene rates and audit compliance in one place.
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ED wait times
Door-to-provider minutes against the target you set.
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Readmissions
30-day returns as a percent, trended over time.
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Anything else you measure
If it has a numerator and a denominator, Concise can track it.
How Concise works.
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Build your measures
Define the target, the threshold, and the schedule, then assign departments — each can carry its own goal.
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Departments enter data
A simple grid per reporting period. If something's missing, Concise reminds them Monday morning.
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Review, approve, report
Approve or send back with a note, watch the traffic-light dashboard, and pull reports for your annual review.
Anonymous peer benchmarking
Pick a shared measure from the Concise library and compare your results against peer hospitals using the same one — anonymized and curated by Canopy.
Free for 6 months with Canopy Surveys
Purchasing Canopy’s Patient Experience Surveys includes a 6-month free trial of Concise — run both sides of quality from one vendor.
Your numbers, not patient records.
Concise tracks aggregate counts — numerators and denominators — not patient-level data. Access is role-based with two-factor authentication, and your data is backed up daily.
Frequently asked questions.
Concise is cloud-based QAPI program software from Canopy. Hospitals use it to build custom quality measures, collect data from each department, review and approve that data, and report progress — all in one place.
QAPI stands for Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement — the framework hospitals use to systematically track and improve the quality of care. Concise is software for running that program: the measures, the data collection, the review workflow, and the reporting.
Yes — that's the point. Any measure with a numerator and a denominator, or a simple count, works: falls, medication errors, wait times, hand hygiene. You set the target, the threshold, and the reporting schedule.
Each department signs in and enters its numbers in a simple grid, one reporting period at a time. If data goes missing, Concise emails that department an automatic reminder on Monday morning.
Anonymous peer benchmarking is coming soon: shared measures from the Concise library will let you compare your results against peer hospitals — anonymized and curated by Canopy.
Request a demo and we'll walk through your current quality program. If you're purchasing Canopy's Patient Experience Surveys, Concise is included free for 6 months.
Bring your quality measures under one roof.
Request a demo and we’ll build your first measure with you — departments, targets, and all.