In
an effort to improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, government
bodies worldwide are mandating that hospitals track and report on core measures
of quality and use them to improve processes and patient outcomes.
To
help healthcare organisations meet these requirements, while also improving the
patient experience and reducing operational costs, SAP today released a new
business intelligence solution for quality management in healthcare.
Based
on solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, the new offering optimises
data collection and reporting processes across an organisation’s operating
systems, helping it to gain new levels of insight to identify potential areas
of quality improvement.
Quality
improvement departments at healthcare organisations are often made up of small
teams working with outdated legacy systems.
They
are sorely in need of systems that allow them to track and report efficiently
on core measures.
The
pre-configured, integrated offering from SAP BusinessObjects pulls data such as
patient care information, administrative information and financial information
from across a healthcare organisation’s various back-end legacy systems.
It
then aggregates and summarises core measures based on this data, and generates
standardised and custom reports to provide a consolidated view across the
entire organisation.
With
this new level of visibility, hospital administrators can understand and
swiftly address the root causes of inefficiencies, improve patient care and
safety, and report core metrics to government bodies with greater accuracy and
timeliness.
This
new offering for quality management in healthcare consists of key performance
indicators (KPIs), dashboards, a data model, data mapping tables and queries
that were developed to sit on top of existing SAP BusinessObjects solutions.
Healthcare
organisations can purchase this offering as a stand-alone solution from SAP and
its business intelligence partners, or through SAP Global Services.
“For
many hospitals, analysing the significant amounts of patient and clinical
information required to understand the quality of care provided to patients is
monumental,” said John Papandrea, senior vice president of the Global
Healthcare Sector at SAP.
“Teams
need to extract data from a variety of clinical, administrative and financial
systems to compile meaningful quality information. The new offering from SAP
BusinessObjects helps by transforming fragmented data-collection activities
into a streamlined, automated business flow,” Papandrea said.
“It
uses a prebuilt data model designed to support healthcare-specific ‘actionable
insights’ – allowing hospitals to immediately understand the level of quality
they are providing to patients and the potential causes of any issues, along
with the best approach required to rectify the issues.”
“With
this new solution, healthcare organisations can automate their data collection
and analysis for quality, increase efficiency and allow staff to focus on what
matters most: providing high-quality patient care.”
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