Using Business Intelligence to Analyze and Share Health System Infrastructure Data in a Rural Health Authority

Haque, Waqar; Urquhart, Bonnie; Berg, Emery; Dhanoa, Ramandeep

doi:10.2196/medinform.3590

Cited by 17 publications

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“…A literature review on the subject published in 2014, drawing from publications between 1996 and 2012, yielded 11 relevant articles . More recent publications describing the developed and implementation of dashboards in health care are adding to this number . The scope of application for the dashboards ranged from integrating data to coordinate care for individual patients in an emergency department to integrating outcome data for a multisite, multidisciplinary acute care system over a large geographical area .…”

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Creation of an integrated outcome database for pediatric anesthesia

Cravero

Sriswasdi

Lekowski

et al. 2016

Pediatric Anesthesia

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Outcome analysis is essential to health care quality improvement efforts. Pediatric anesthesia faces unique challenges in analyzing outcomes. Anesthesia most often involves a one-time point of care interaction where work flow precludes detailed feedback to care givers. In addition, pediatric outcome evaluations must take into account patients' age, development, and underlying illnesses when attempting to establish benchmarks. The deployment of electronic medical records, including preoperative, operative, and postoperative data, offers an opportunity for creating datasets large and inclusive enough to overcome these potential confounders. At our institution, perioperative data exist in five distinct environments. In this study, we describe a method to integrate these datasets into a single web-based relational database that provides researchers and clinicians with regular anesthesia outcome data that can be reviewed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Because of its complexity, the project also entailed the creation of a 'dashboard,' allowing tracking of data trends and rapid feedback of measured metrics to promote and sustain improvements. We present the first use of such a database and dashboard for pediatric anesthesia professionals as well as successfully demonstrating its capabilities to perform as described above.

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confidence: 99%

Creation of an integrated outcome database for pediatric anesthesia

Cravero

Sriswasdi

Lekowski

et al. 2016

Pediatric Anesthesia

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“…Important technological advances now make it possible to identify the most capable nearby hospital to help critically ill patients and ensure their successful transfer. To identify the optimal destination, Haque et al [64] proposed a solution that uses business intelligence techniques to analyze data related to healthcare infrastructure and services.…”

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The Environmental Sustainability Assessment of an Orthopedics Emergency Hospital Supported by a New Innovative Framework

Moldovan,

Bataga

2023

Sustainability

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Due to their high consumption of resources and enormous amount of generated waste, healthcare systems are not considered to be sustainable. Given the constant changes in internal needs, improvement of this state cannot be achieved only through policies, strategies, and interventions administered from the outside. Thus, it is necessary to design tools that, through their constant application, facilitate the sustainable development of health institutions. The objective of this research is to develop and validate in practice an innovative framework for assessing the sustainability of healthcare facilities that is compatible with hospital accreditation legislation and other community frameworks. The research is limited to the study of environmental sustainability and its results are validated in a healthcare facility with an orthopedic profile. The research method consists of defining the domains of the new innovative framework, collecting the latest medical practices related to environmental sustainability, designing indicators related to environmental responsibility and a matrix of indicators, followed by its validation in practice at an emergency hospital. The new innovative framework is organized in three areas, including environmental, economic, and social sustainability, to which is added organizational capacity along with management and provision of sustainable healthcare services. It contains 57 indicators, of which 8 are dedicated to the environmental area. The indicators are described in detail together with evaluation grids structured by the coupled degrees of importance and achievement. The practical implementation of the innovative framework at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital of Targu Mures highlights its added value by promoting sustainability strategies together with continuous quantification of the organization’s sustainability level.

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“…Business intelligence instruments and methods have been used in various nursing management applications. These include controlling and communication 18,19 ; patient, disease, and population management 20–22 ; and assessment of hospital documentation quality 23 . The effects of BI usage have been studied in combination with nursing decision support 24 .…”

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Automating Time-Consuming and Error-Prone Manual Nursing Management Documentation Processes

Haas

Hutzler

Egginger

et al. 2021

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

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A German regulation requires nursing managers to document patient-nurse ratios. They have to combine heterogeneous hospital data from different sources. Missing documentation or ratios that are too high lead to sanctions. Automated approaches are needed to accelerate the time-consuming and error-prone documentation process. A documentation and visualization system was implemented. The system allows nursing managers to quickly and automatically create the documentation required by the regulation. Interactive visualization dashboards assist with the analysis of patient and staff numbers. The developed method was effectively used in nursing management tasks. No changes to the information technology infrastructure were needed. The new process is around 35 hours per month faster and less error-prone. The documentation functionality automatically reads the required information and correctly calculates the documentation. The visualization functionality allows nursing managers to assess the current patient-nurse ratios before the documentation is submitted. The method scales to multiple wards and locations. It calculates the sanctions to expect and is easily updatable. The proposed method is expected to decrease nursing administration workloads and facilitate the analysis of nursing management data in a cost-effective way.

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Using Business Intelligence to Analyze and Share Health System Infrastructure Data in a Rural Health Authority

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Creation of an integrated outcome database for pediatric anesthesia

Creation of an integrated outcome database for pediatric anesthesia

The Environmental Sustainability Assessment of an Orthopedics Emergency Hospital Supported by a New Innovative Framework

Automating Time-Consuming and Error-Prone Manual Nursing Management Documentation Processes

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