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- Title
Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness.
- Authors
Ferranti, Jeffrey M.; Langman, Matthew K.; Tanaka, David; McCall, Jonathan; Ahmad, Asif
- Abstract
Healthcare is increasingly dependent upon information technology (IT), but the accumulation of data has outpaced our capacity to use it to improve operating efficiency, clinical quality, and financial effectiveness. Moreover, hospitals have lagged in adopting thoughtful analytic approaches that would allow operational leaders and providers to capitalize upon existing data stores. In this manuscript, we propose a fundamental re-evaluation of strategic IT investments in healthcare, with the goal of increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving outcomes through the targeted application of health analytics. We also present three case studies that illustrate the use of health analytics to leverage preexisting data resources to support improvements in patient safety and quality of care, to increase the accuracy of billing and collection, and support emerging health issues. We believe that such active investment in health analytics will prove essential to realizing the full promise of investments in electronic clinical systems.
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL informatics; COMPUTERS in medicine; MEDICAL information storage &; retrieval systems; HOSPITAL administration -- Data processing; HEALTH services administration
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 2, p136
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1136/jamia.2009.002220