St. Joseph Health System in Orange, California, a U.S. $3.7 billion not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, with 14 hospitals in three states, is using Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) to achieve a balance of hospital and community care.

Kim Jackson, Director of Clinical Informatics at St. Joseph Health System, speaks out about the transformative power of Amalga.

“With Amalga, our first conversation can be about the outcomes of the data, instead of how to get the data.

What used to take two months and 50 phone calls now takes one analyst with five clicks. It is a huge change in the way things work. Not only can someone have a graph that really quickly compares ministries, we can ponder, 'who is the best person across ministries,' and do a root cause analysis about why they are the best right then and there.

With Amalga, we can easily view data from different perspectives—from the patient level to the location level, from the population level to the patient level, from the micro level to the macro level—in a single view.

Amalga allows us to take a completely different approach to using our data—we’re using our data right away and rapidly exploring answers to critical questions that we might have never thought to ask if the data wasn’t so readily available.”