Narrow range of use and application: Healthcare systems are comprised of many departments that all rely on using patient-centered information to facilitate their operations. Unfortunately, EHRs are mostly geared toward frontline workers and aren’t built with financial and operational functions in mind. Due to the scope of their abilities, they’re often lacking in key features necessary for those responsible for improving quality, efficiency, and financial performance. The wide variety of reporting demands in healthcare means providers need a platform that can address their needs across the entire organization.

Outdated and inconsistent information: As the demand for healthcare rises, healthcare systems have access to an ever-expanding pool of dynamic data. In the face of rapid patient care, physicians need timely access to data and information to inform their clinical decision-making. However, many EHR vendors still rely on traditional batch-loading models for updating their systems, which usually only occur at specific times of the day (often overnight). This means data may already be obsolete by the time it’s available to physicians and healthcare administrators. The use of this unreliable and outdated data can negatively impact clinical outcomes.

Incomplete data integration: The analytic and governance capabilities of EHRs are built specifically around their unique technical infrastructure. This means they are limited in which types of information they’re able to integrate, frequently neglecting potentially valuable third-party channels. Without a central platform to integrate and consolidate different channels into a single version of the truth, organizations waste valuable time and resources trying to effectively process and utilize their data.

Wide range of use and applications: The interconnected nature of healthcare means clinical outcomes go far beyond the individual patient, with patient information playing a vital role at every level of operation. Because population health data is used in guiding overarching business strategies, organizations need an analytics platform that promotes data democracy all the way from frontline workers to executive administrators. While EHRs can be severely limited in their use across the enterprise, comprehensive analytics platforms possess the tools required to support data management in an array of functions. Effective analytics software can integrate with EHRs to improve efficiency in many areas including:

• Revenue cycle management
• Strategic initiatives
• Supply-chain optimization
• Patient outcomes

Both clinical and operational teams can leverage data reporting and visualization tools to easily and quickly use their data in decision-making.

Streamlined interoperability: Comprehensive data governance platforms are designed specifically to maintain consistent and reliable data quality while also providing organizations with a means of communicating meaningful insights. By streamlining the exchange of information between different facilities and departments, organizations can ensure that administrators always have access to crucial data needed for important clinical, operational, and financial decisions. End-to-end analytics solutions integrate data from multiple siloes into a user-friendly format that can be effortlessly shared with other providers. This optimized interoperability can reduce many of the headaches that come with siloed information sharing.

Real-time reporting: Healthcare providers and administrators work within tight time frames, where even minor delays in obtaining accurate data can lead to harmful patient outcomes and negative financial consequences. Enterprise analytics platforms are invaluable due to their ability to generate real-time data. This allows clinicians and healthcare executives to access up-to-date information that accurately reflects their patients’ status. Additionally, dedicated analytics platforms include built-in automation features, eliminating much of the manpower required to constantly maintain and update patient data. This significantly reduces the time and resources providers spend on paperwork and resolves many of the issues arising from human error in manual entry.

Single version of the truth: One of the major advantages enterprise analytics platforms provide is seamless data integration. By implementing a comprehensive end-to-end solution that works in conjunction with EHRs, organizations can ensure that staff have access to reliable information for data-driven decision-making. This approach consolidates data from various channels into a single, reliable source, which guarantees that staff are working with a complete and accurate version of the truth. By automating and standardizing data integration through an end-to-end analytics platform, organizations can drastically reduce the time and resources needed for translating raw data into meaningful insights. This is key to maximizing ROI and ensuring that frontline workers have access to accurate and consistent information.

The limitations of EHR systems negatively impact real healthcare organizations and their KPIs. One large, renowned academic medical center found severe limitations in its EHR alone and needed to develop consistent, enterprise-wide definitions and dashboards to optimize patient care. After switching to a value-based care model, with payments made based on quality and outcomes, the organization found an increased need for data measurement. It gained insights from a variety of data domains in the organization, such as HR, finance, ambulatory operations, and others to assess data and reporting needs. The various departments expressed a need to internalize standard definitions of patient populations and outcomes and track performance in real time.

After implementing Dimensional Insight’s analytics software, the medical center was able to integrate external program definitions in real time and enable performance improvement. It rolled out 177 dashboards with more than 1,500 enterprise metrics and 1,000 active users. The data the organization captured helped to improve patient experience, have 8% fewer readmissions, and enable care managers to focus on higher acuity patients.

A leading children’s hospital had similar success in implementing Dimensional Insight’s analytics software. The organization has three separate systems that house patient data, including its EHR. As a result, the organization was struggling with process inefficiencies, information siloes, and poor data quality. Across the hospital, users struggled with fragmented data across disparate sources, highly time-consuming manual efforts, and inconsistent data collection and reporting. The hospital identified a need for an all-in-one platform for reporting, analytics, dashboards, and data governance to improve quality of care, operational efficiency, and support strategic decision-making.

After rolling out Dimensional Insight’s applications to integrate its EHR and other patient data systems, the hospital published its first customized executive and hospital operations dashboards, allowing for streamlined analytics, including regulatory and quality reporting needs.

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