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	Quinte Health Care Identifies $10 Million Opportunity With WebFOCUS Information Builders

Quinte Health Care Identifies $10 Million Opportunity With WebFOCUS

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Changes in government funding required Quinte Health Care (QHC) to cut $10 million from its operating budget. The company needed better business intelligence tools for easier access to information and analytics, so decision-makers could understand where money could be saved. The new funding approach, known as Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), comprises the health-based allocation model (HBAM) and Quality-Based Procedures (QBP). This strategy provides the government with an evidence-based method for distributing funds. Every year, healthcare takes a larger portion of the tax base and the government wants to mitigate the huge variation in care and outcomes across Canada’s hospitals. There is also a shift in fund allocation, from hospitals to community health centers and home care, as it becomes increasingly clear that people recover more quickly if they can be released from hospitals sooner and moved to another setting. Read More
About Customer	Quinte Health Care (QHC) provides a wide range of healthcare services to 160,000 people living in Prince Edward, Hastings, and Northumberland Counties in Ontario, Canada. Care is provided via four hospitals: QHC Belleville General Hospital, QHC North Hastings Hospital, QHC Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, and QHC Trenton Memorial Hospital. QHC has 1,600 employees (300 medical staff) and 260 inpatient beds. For decades, in Canada as in the U.S., health plans routinely paid for treatments and procedures without excessive scrutiny via Global Funding. The new trend is to pay for outcomes and reward quality. However, Ontario has a new approach to healthcare funding, known as Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), which comprises the health-based allocation model (HBAM) and Quality-Based Procedures (QBP). Read More
Solution	To meet these needs QHC turned to software solutions from Information Builders. The company used iWay DataMigrator to build a data warehouse and the WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform to deliver analytics via a user-friendly BI portal. More than 300 people throughout the organization, from nurses to executives, rely on this BI environment to measure fundamental processes and analyze critical trends in the patient data. Information Builders’ technology has helped the company to measurably improve operations, meet financial requirements, and increase outcomes in key areas of patient care. QHC also used WebFOCUS to create key performance indicators (KPIs) that help clinicians and administrators measure a huge variety of cost and quality factors. KPIs such as Percent Alternate Level of Care Days, Inpatient Satisfaction, and Emergency Department Length of Stay are delivered via a combination of dashboards and reports. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Changes in government funding required Quinte Health Care (QHC) to cut $10 million from its operating budget. The company needed better business intelligence tools for easier access to information and analytics, so decision-makers could understand where money could be saved. The new funding approach, known as Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), comprises the health-based allocation model (HBAM) and Quality-Based Procedures (QBP). This strategy provides the government with an evidence-based method for distributing funds. Every year, healthcare takes a larger portion of the tax base and the government wants to mitigate the huge variation in care and outcomes across Canada’s hospitals. There is also a shift in fund allocation, from hospitals to community health centers and home care, as it becomes increasingly clear that people recover more quickly if they can be released from hospitals sooner and moved to another setting.

About Customer

Quinte Health Care (QHC) provides a wide range of healthcare services to 160,000 people living in Prince Edward, Hastings, and Northumberland Counties in Ontario, Canada. Care is provided via four hospitals: QHC Belleville General Hospital, QHC North Hastings Hospital, QHC Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, and QHC Trenton Memorial Hospital. QHC has 1,600 employees (300 medical staff) and 260 inpatient beds. For decades, in Canada as in the U.S., health plans routinely paid for treatments and procedures without excessive scrutiny via Global Funding. The new trend is to pay for outcomes and reward quality. However, Ontario has a new approach to healthcare funding, known as Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), which comprises the health-based allocation model (HBAM) and Quality-Based Procedures (QBP).

Solution

To meet these needs QHC turned to software solutions from Information Builders. The company used iWay DataMigrator to build a data warehouse and the WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform to deliver analytics via a user-friendly BI portal. More than 300 people throughout the organization, from nurses to executives, rely on this BI environment to measure fundamental processes and analyze critical trends in the patient data. Information Builders’ technology has helped the company to measurably improve operations, meet financial requirements, and increase outcomes in key areas of patient care. QHC also used WebFOCUS to create key performance indicators (KPIs) that help clinicians and administrators measure a huge variety of cost and quality factors. KPIs such as Percent Alternate Level of Care Days, Inpatient Satisfaction, and Emergency Department Length of Stay are delivered via a combination of dashboards and reports.

Impact #1	WebFOCUS helped QHC to reduce its operating budget by $10 million.
Impact #2	More than 300 people, from nurses to executives, access WebFOCUS reports.
Impact #3	Healthcare professionals use parameterized reports to study the average age of people in various areas, number of births, incidence of disease types, correlation of diseases with aging populations, and other demographics.

Impact #1

WebFOCUS helped QHC to reduce its operating budget by $10 million.

Impact #2

More than 300 people, from nurses to executives, access WebFOCUS reports.

Impact #3

Healthcare professionals use parameterized reports to study the average age of people in various areas, number of births, incidence of disease types, correlation of diseases with aging populations, and other demographics.

Benefit #1	Reduced operating budget by $10 million
Benefit #2	Over 300 users accessing the reports

Benefit #1

Reduced operating budget by $10 million

Benefit #2

Over 300 users accessing the reports

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Quinte Health Care Identifies $10 Million Opportunity With WebFOCUS

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