| ign="center"> | | | | three critical areas: |
| Healthcare Business Intelligence Supports | | | | Mortality: Mortality is one of our top strategic metrics. |
| Transparency and Accountability | | | | It's vital that we accurately and completely track |
| Integrating Technology For Maximum Flexibility | | | | mortality rates and document ICD-9 codes that make |
| To keep pace with mounting clinical performance | | | | up the patient record. Analytics technology enables us |
| requirements, the University of Washington Medical | | | | to collect this data, process it and send it to various |
| Center (UWMC) decided to move beyond its | | | | locations such as state agencies, a medical database |
| home-grown decision support system to a more | | | | and our clinical benchmarking partner, the University |
| integrated model. We implemented a healthcare | | | | HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). |
| business intelligence solution to: | | | | Core Measures: Core measure data collection and |
| Quickly identify best practices and evaluate root | | | | analysis used to take months. Now, we can predict |
| causes | | | | several months in advance how this information will |
| Accelerate time-to-value for clinical improvement | | | | look, and we can tell within a week how well changes |
| initiatives | | | | have worked. |
| Enhance predictive modeling and analysis | | | | Patient Safety: Recently, we began using the |
| Manage and measure performance as part of the | | | | performance analytics solution to examine the Patient |
| clinical process | | | | Safety Indicators developed by the Agency for |
| UWMC has gone a step further and integrated | | | | Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Over the |
| analytics as a critical path in our strategic planning. | | | | next six months, we will verify that every indicator we |
| We've embraced a model for information | | | | report is a true depiction of the care received. |
| transparency and shared accountability throughout our | | | | By leveraging the capabilities of healthcare business |
| healthcare system. | | | | intelligence and performance analytics, we expect to |
| Analytics Change Behavior, Improve Performance | | | | continue to improve clinical and operational outcomes. |
| Under the leadership of Seth Hennessey, manager of | | | | Having a solution that integrates analytics across the |
| our Center for Clinical Excellence, we use a | | | | enterprise for both clinical and financial data enables us |
| combination of business intelligence and performance | | | | to identify comprehensive solutions for process |
| analytics to help us track and improve performance in | | | | improvement. |