Hospital Intelligence Tools

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Hospital Intelligence Tools aim to address the specific needs of hospitals and other healthcare facilitates with respect to performance monitoring and management. Healthcare executives, program managers, and providers are confronted daily with challenges that require informed decisions. By combining clinical, statistical, financial and operational data, a new breed of web-based software dashboard is emerging to help healthcare leaders make better and timely decisions.

Studies have shown that decision markers spend almost 25% of their time collecting data and the other 75% trying to decipher, analyze and interpret the data. Hospital Intelligence Tools are specifically tailored for healthcare offering decision maker insightful analysis of key performance indicators such as Length of Stay, Risk of Readmission, Bed Utilization, Time to Admit, Service Volumes, Productivity, and Operational Efficiency. Furthermore, benchmarking and drill down analysis capabilities streamline data interpretation and root cause discovery process.

Hospital Intelligence Tools integrate data from disparate sources within the healthcare facility such as Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) systems, Electronic Health Records (HER), Patient Satisfaction surveys, and Clinical Workload Measurement systems. The tools allow hospital executives, program managers, physicians, and nurses to draw correlations between the different programs and various data measurements to address specific strategic problems.