Improving Healthcare Delivery
Public and private healthcare providers can find it challenging to gain operational visibility into information spread across numerous clinical, financial and resource planning systems. This inability to effectively access and explore data, particularly in light of collaboration demands, contributes to mounting financial strains, patient wait times and resource constraints. Timely, granular information is critical to overcome these challenges, but remains difficult to obtain. On average, less than 10% of data in healthcare systems is available for analysis.
Healthcare providers like Tasmania Health and Healthe Care are moving from gathering and managing data that push out reports, to more time spent with what the numbers are telling, by using QlikView dashboards. Assisting hospital CEO’s and local site management to simplify the complexity of their operations and better match resources and supplies with patient care, while having the commercial impacts on hand.
Decision Support for Healthcare Providers
Inside Info has strong experience working within the healthcare sector to rapidly integrate and analyse business intelligence data from clinical, financial and resource management systems for better operations and improved quality of care. Empowering healthcare workers with decision support anywhere, anytime. We work with healthcare providers to deliver typically in 4 to 6 weeks a combination of the following:
- A one-screen view of all the facts: Ensuring cross functional visibility, integrating clinical, financial, resource planning systems and other business data to better understand commercial impacts and contributions by health fund, doctor, specialty, facility and patient type over any time period to aid in future planning.
- Proactive Procurement & Cost Management Analysis: Better understanding consumption and purchase patterns of medical, pharmaceutical and surgical supplies.
- Workforce Analysis: Interactive, on-demand analysis of workforce and resource planning to better match patient needs, assessing resourcing labour costs across all departments and facilities and how it varies by patient volume.
- Care Delivery Analysis: Providing physicians with a total picture of patient histories by analysing patient demographics, diagnoses, treatments, outcomes and survivability metrics to identify treatment without having to rely on IT.
- Interactive Financial Analysis: Tracking P&L views from the enterprise to individual cost centres, providing dashboard style compliance analysis and improve financial controls and predictability of outcomes.
- Near real-time visibility into operations: instead of out-of-date reports. On-demand self-serve analysis of data, often replacing hundreds of OLAP based reports and empowering business users to perform their own analysis reducing IT support by up to 90%. Users report 54% less time accessing information and 51% less time analysing it. (IDC).
- Sub-second query response on very large data volumes into the hundreds of million records without losing transactional level detail, with data refreshing as often as your underlying source systems.
Inside Info works with companies like Australia’s largest private hospital and out-patient care provider Healthe Care. We help healthcare providers in a matter of weeks to improve workforce and resource planning, patient, revenue and financial analysis and procurement analysis with easy to use, on-demand performance dashboards. Results have included improved contract negotiation with suppliers and health funds, better analysis of commercial efficiency, better allocation of diversely skilled staff and improved procurement of medical and surgical supplies. While globally there are over 500 healthcare providers using QlikView.
The publicly-funded healthcare system of England, providing the majority of healthcare in the country needed to consolidate, visualize and analyse financial data across all regional hubs while needing to reduce spend throughout the supply chain. QlikView was deployed nationwide for benefits reporting, spend and cost analysis, supplier and purchaser analysis and organisational benchmarking. As a result saving US$66 million in procurement cost savings over two years.
asteRx, an online clinical data and market research services company for the Australian healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, is using Inside Info’s QlikView business intelligence application via the web to help its customers bring its research data to life and more easily identify health market trends, customer behaviour and prescription anomalies, delivered in just 12 working days.
