Discovery Hub
®
helps healthcare network transform
utilization of staffing resources and facilities
As one of the largest healthcare providers in the US, this network required a scalable and manageable data
estate to support rapid growth and allow for more streamlined analytics.
SUPPORTING RAPID GROWTH AND SUBSTANTIAL INSIGHTS
With more than one million patients served annually, our customer is the largest
healthcare provider servicing a region of over fteen thousand square miles and a
population of three million, containing eight counties with state-of-the-art technology while
supporting residency training programs with more than 700 residents each year.
Several disparate clinical and business systems support these services across multiple
hospitals and clinics. In addition, high growth through mergers, acquisitions, and
partnership adds further complexity to the information backbone of the organization.
This results in incomplete and inconsistent information available to manage the eecient
utilization of sta and facilities. When it was realized that the growth had exceeded the
operating room capacity, they reviewed the utilization of rooms. Gathering and compiling
the data manually was a time consuming and labor intensive process, however, they did
nd that operating rooms were not fully utilized. It was a clear sign that change was
needed, in order to do further analysis.
On a practical level, information was gathered from systems including Cerner Electronic
Health Records (containing more than 20-years of accumulated health records), Allscripts
EPSi, and Lawson ERP. The supporting Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases
contained most of the information, however, common practice was to extract data from
reports into tools like Microsoft Excel – all of which impacted timely data analysis.
Transforming the healthcare network’s utilization of resources and facilities required one
system of insights that could provide one single version of the truth for improved decision
making.
ONE DATA ESTATE FOR MULTIPLE DISPARATE DATA SOURCES
The decision makers carefully evaluated several tools and selected TimeXtender’s Discovery
Hub
®
software platform as the best solution for transforming the healthcare network’s
analytics environment to help improve operational eciencies. Once Discovery Hub
®
was
deployed it was used to access the hospital’s Cerner Electronic Health Record application
data as well as nancial and operational data from other major healthcare information
technology vendor products.
HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER
BACKGROUND
• Non-prot provider of diagnostic,
preventive, remedial and therapeutic
services
• Company responsible for 5 hospitals
in 8 counties, with 4,800 employees
and 80+ outpatient clinics
CHALLENGES
• Managing several disparate clinical and
business systems to support services
across multiple hospitals
• Eective handling of high growth
through mergers and acquisitions
• Building new data estate with semantic
models connected to multiple front-end
tools
SOLUTION
• A new data estate built with Discovery
Hub
®
that enables easy consolidation
and modeling of diverse data
• Easy deployment of relational models
directly to data visualization front-end
tools
• A data archeticture that fully supports
a “data protection by design and by
default” environment under the GDPR
legislation
BENEFITS
• Streamlined process for data
management allowing for easier
analytics practices
• Discovery Hub
®
implementation allows
for easy future migration to the cloud
with Azure
• Drastic reduction in time-to-data and
manual coding and writing costs
The Discovery Hub
®
platform enabled the IT team to cleanse, consolidate, and model this
disparate data eciently. Once the complex data is processed it is used to deploy relational
models directly to the data visualization front end for business decision makers.
In addition, Discovery Hub
®
provides a solid foundation for compliance and helps keep the
healthcare network’s patient data secure and in accordance with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
A HEALTHY DATA ARCHITECTURE
Implementing Discovery Hub
®
empowers business decision makers and brings together
people and data for improved streamlined processes, utilization across the hospitals
departments, operational eectiveness and new ways to treat patients more quickly.
Now that the analytics environment is backed by Discovery Hub
®
performance is drastically
improved without having to manually write and maintain many lines of complex scripting.
In addition, the development team’s ability to preview data before further processing
enables faster development without overloading the production data sources.
Implementing Discovery Hub
®
has enabled a future proof data architecture and it is now
positioned well for future migration to the cloud.
TimeXtender’s Discovery Hub
®
provides companies with instant
access to data, enabling them to
make quality business decisions
with data, mind and heart.
Because time matters.
To learn more about Discovery
Hub
®
and how the power of
automation can move your
business forward, visit:
www.timextender.com
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