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Quality improvement departments at healthcare organisations are often made up of small teams working with outdated legacy systems.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.”
