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QlikView lowers costs and increases availability for Blekinge County Council

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Human Resources
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Inventory Management
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Blekinge County Council, a leading healthcare provider in Sweden, was facing several challenges. They needed to decrease expenditures for prescribed medical products by increasing prescriptions for lower cost medicine. They also aimed to improve the availability of services to reduce patient waiting times. Furthermore, they wanted to increase the capacity of the hospital to meet increasing medical demands with existing resources. The council was also looking for a way to review operational data easily and improve the quality of information by making each person that enters data into the system responsible for the data they publish. Read More
About Customer	Blekinge County Council (Blekinge Hospital) is one of a few county councils in Sweden that does not face financial problems. In its 2004 annual report, it showed significant cost reductions. At the same time, it has managed to improve the availability towards its patients. The bottom line result for 2004 was a surplus of €2.3 million. As the IT Analyst at Blekinge County Council, Leif Fransson is responsible for its QlikView applications. He was involved already in 1995 when it started using QlikView in the first place. He was also instrumental when making the decision to expand QlikView to the rest of the organization with a web solution a couple of years ago. Read More
Solution	Blekinge County Council deployed QlikView to 2,400 employees, with the first applications up and running in just 4 weeks. With QlikView across 4 functional areas, Blekinge County Council analyzes patient flows and patterns, medical supply costs, financial budgets, and diagnosis and treatments – all focused on lowering costs and improving patient care. With QlikView Server and Publisher, Blekinge County Council easily handles the data volume associated with more than 500,000 annual patient visits. Pulling data from an array of sources such as Conrad, Melior, Prima, Provisio, and Raindance, QlikView now provides a common dashboard for all. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Inventory Management

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Blekinge County Council, a leading healthcare provider in Sweden, was facing several challenges. They needed to decrease expenditures for prescribed medical products by increasing prescriptions for lower cost medicine. They also aimed to improve the availability of services to reduce patient waiting times. Furthermore, they wanted to increase the capacity of the hospital to meet increasing medical demands with existing resources. The council was also looking for a way to review operational data easily and improve the quality of information by making each person that enters data into the system responsible for the data they publish.

About Customer

Blekinge County Council (Blekinge Hospital) is one of a few county councils in Sweden that does not face financial problems. In its 2004 annual report, it showed significant cost reductions. At the same time, it has managed to improve the availability towards its patients. The bottom line result for 2004 was a surplus of €2.3 million. As the IT Analyst at Blekinge County Council, Leif Fransson is responsible for its QlikView applications. He was involved already in 1995 when it started using QlikView in the first place. He was also instrumental when making the decision to expand QlikView to the rest of the organization with a web solution a couple of years ago.

Solution

Blekinge County Council deployed QlikView to 2,400 employees, with the first applications up and running in just 4 weeks. With QlikView across 4 functional areas, Blekinge County Council analyzes patient flows and patterns, medical supply costs, financial budgets, and diagnosis and treatments – all focused on lowering costs and improving patient care. With QlikView Server and Publisher, Blekinge County Council easily handles the data volume associated with more than 500,000 annual patient visits. Pulling data from an array of sources such as Conrad, Melior, Prima, Provisio, and Raindance, QlikView now provides a common dashboard for all.

Impact #1	Shortened waiting times for patients by monitoring inflow patterns
Impact #2	Increased operational efficiencies by benchmarking against other hospitals
Impact #3	Improved treatment recommendations by analyzing survival expectancy data

Impact #1

Shortened waiting times for patients by monitoring inflow patterns

Impact #2

Increased operational efficiencies by benchmarking against other hospitals

Impact #3

Improved treatment recommendations by analyzing survival expectancy data

Benefit #1	Reduced annual medical costs by 5% or €850,000 by analyzing prescription patterns

Benefit #1

Reduced annual medical costs by 5% or €850,000 by analyzing prescription patterns

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Overview

QlikView lowers costs and increases availability for Blekinge County Council

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