| “Until health-related data is standardized and integrated, it is largely unusable,” says Dr. Geraldine Wade, Director of Medical Informatics at HP. “Health information that is accessible at the right place and time and interoperable with multiple systems is another story.”
Improved healthcare, she explains, stems from historical trending, cross-domain analysis and continual evaluation of health-related metrics. These efforts can be time consuming, costly and impractical when using sets of raw, incongruent data pulled from multiple, disparate technology systems. “You can’t conduct effective analytics with disparate data that varies in meaning, format and storage paradigms,” Dr. Wade suggests. “Data must be standardized and transformed to enable comparison.”
How does a healthcare organization turn its unrefined data into valuable, actionable information? Dr. Wade recommends:
- Examining existing data resources
- Establishing priorities and goals
- Working with partners who understand health and life science requirements and the technology strategies that can deliver
HP’s Information Management practice offers Business Intelligence (BI) services and a BI Maturity Model that can facilitate the conversion of raw health data into useable, actionable information. These efforts are bolstered by HP professionals who possess advanced domain expertise, which can be invaluable when working with clinical data. The BI experts within HP are then able to help healthcare organizations take advantage of their enhanced information to improve processes, reduce costs and deliver better health-related outcomes.
HP’s BI services include:
- Strategy and Planning
- Data Transformation and Integration
- Information Quality
- Information Delivery
“Our BI services and BI Maturity Model represent a proven formula for success,” Dr. Wade notes. “We evaluate a healthcare organization’s data and its priorities from business, clinical and research standpoints. Then we help develop and implement a step-by-step plan for transforming their data and utilizing it to improve overall quality of service and care.”
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