Managing Data for Quality Reporting and Improved Performance

Having access to real-time, actionable data is critical for hospitals to conduct sound business decisions, quality treatments, and effective patient management. MEDITECH delivers the metrics you need to understand crucial issues facing your organization and adjust practices as needed so you can operate with intelligence.

MEDITECH's fully integrated system allows for centralized data storage through our Data Repository, thereby enabling decision makers to utilize a variety of data reporting tools to view clinical, financial, and statistical information from facilities throughout the continuum. "Health care executives are able to harness data and present it in a comprehensive format to help make key decisions, which can save the lives of patients and the organization's bottom line," says Jaye Benson, manager marketing support for MEDITECH.

With data available to make decisions, it's also important to know how to extract information and display it in a user-friendly format. A variety of OBDC-compliant technologies—ranging from off-the-shelf products like Microsoft Office Excel® and Microsoft Office AccessTM, to software and services from companies such as The Institute for Health Metrics (IHM) or Medisolv—are used to extract data electronically and then automatically display it in real-time on a dashboard or monitor.

"By automating the data extraction process, health care executives can devote their resources to efficiently analyzing hospital data and implementing improvements, rather than focus on gathering and extracting data," says Benson. "MEDITECH's reporting tools can help determine best practices and subsequently create standardized performance measures within your facility. Additionally, by combining your reports with preeminent external evidence and evidence-based research from Zynx Health, your patients will receive quality and efficient care. MEDITECH supports performance improvement through these expandable measures."

MEDITECH's system creates a dynamic environment where data automatically updates dashboards and displays. The process of reporting has been designed to be easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, while being a quick and safe method of analyzing system-wide data.