Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness.
Healthcare is increasingly dependent upon information technology (IT), but the accumulation of data has outpaced our capacity to use it to improve operating efficiency, clinical quality, and financial effectiveness. Moreover, hospitals have lagged in adopting thoughtful analytic approaches that would allow operational leaders and providers to capitalize upon existing data stores. In this manuscript, we propose a fundamental re-evaluation of strategic IT investments in healthcare, with the goal of increasing [...]
Author(s): Ferranti, Jeffrey M, Langman, Matthew K, Tanaka, David, McCall, Jonathan, Ahmad, Asif
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.002220