Why Your Hospital Needs Enterprise Intelligence

Healthcare leaders certainly are not lacking information. But the need for enterprise intelligence is emerging with urgency as healthcare undergoes a massive transformation.

Today, lots of information is stockpiled in too many of places, yet leaders, clinicians, managers and staff members have trouble turning this data into actionable business intelligence.

The driving forces behind the need for enterprise intelligence are:

  • The ongoing economic storm is forcing tough, but financially astute decision making.
  • Health reform is changing all the rules – and putting unprecedented pressure on providers to make the decisions that will improve healthcare quality while balancing fiscal success.
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) directive to not only use healthcare information technology but to "meaningfully" deploy it is escalating the need to make all the right choices.

What is Enterprise Intelligence?

Enterprise intelligence is an emerging management model that enables you to create a culture of excellence by transforming and elevating performance improvement from the departmental to an enterprise-wide level.

It aggregates the right clinical, financial and operational data from all settings -- acute care, physician practice, home and others -- and transforms it into actionable information that is grounded in your organization’s culture.

Enterprise intelligence is anchored with healthcare-specific logic, predefined metrics and appropriate benchmarks.

Integrated real-time and retrospective intelligence drives transparency and facilitates shared accountability for all stakeholders and provides insight for decision making at any level of the organization.

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