Health Intelligence

Health Intelligence Solutions

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  Find out how Microsoft Health Intelligence can equip your people with powerful, organisation-wide access to your data, helping your organisation plan accurately and improve outcomes.

  See how Microsoft Health Intelligence benefits leading local healthcare organisations by exploring the webcasts in the left hand navigation area.

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• Performance Management
  

  Performance Management Webcast

  Fiona Webster, Executive Director of Strategy, Quality & Service Redesign discusses the performance management problems Austin Health faced and the solution.

  By increasing the availability of data at Austin Health, Microsoft Health Intelligence has enabled dramatic refinements and improvements in patient service. Now that data is delivered across the organisation through a web browser, it’s easily accessible to staff, helping to improve decision-making and patient outcomes, which contributes to freeing up time to be spent on actual care.

  

  Austin Health Video Case Study

  To improve quality, safety and performance, Austin Health implemented a business intelligence solution based on Microsoft SQL Server. It allows staff to see relevant, role-related data in a single consolidated view, so they can target, analyse and respond to issues more quickly and accurately.

• Predictive Analytics
  

  Predictive Analytics Webcast

  Dr Kathryn Zeitz, director, Operational Performance and Improvement, Adelaide Health Service discusses the burden of capacity and demand in hospitals. She looks at patient management solutions like CapPlan that allow hospitals to forecast and plan for future demands, in order to help improve patient care.

  

  Royal Adelaide Hospital Video Case Study

  Royal Adelaide Hospital introduced CapPlan with a view to ensuring greater operational visibility of patient management. Based on Microsoft .NET and SQL server platforms, CapPlan is a demand and capacity management solution that allows the hospital to see at a glance staff numbers and occupancy of beds.

• Clinical Outcomes
  

  Clinical Outcomes Webcast

  Dr Mark Parrish, director, of Microsoft’s Health Solutions Asia Pacific/Middle East region tackles the crucial task of improving quality and safety in healthcare in order to improve clinical outcomes. He explores the underlying principles behind Microsoft Amalga, explaining how it can improve decision-making and provide faster access to clinical reports. He also demonstrates how Amalga can assess groups of data at one time, providing some very real benefits for the healthcare industry as a whole.

  

  St Joseph Medical Centre

  This episode of Health Tech Today demonstrates how translating real-time data into meaningful analysis enables providers to make smart decisions and deliver better care. It explains the powerful tools that can unlock the potential of analytics in healthcare

• Decision Support
  

  Decision Support Webcast

  Alice Springs Hospital had numerous disparate patient care systems making it hard for clinicians to access the data required to make informed decisions. Dr Stephen Gourley, Executive Director of Alice Springs Hospital discusses the MIYA platform solution that gives them improved patient visibility. He also explores the benefits this visibility presented to the hospital.

  

  Alice Springs Hospital Video Case Study

  The Alice Springs Hospital needed to operate with maximum efficiency given that it often struggles to attract staff and manage resources in such a remote location. To do this, the hospital consolidated its disparate IT systems to create a unified Health Intelligence solution that enables staff to login with a single button, view patient statuses in real-time, prioritise care more accurately and reduce missed results.

Product Showcase

Resources

• Trial software
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Download a complimentary, fully functional 180-day trial version of SQL Server 2008 R2.
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Download a complimentary, fully functional trial version of SharePoint Server 2010.
  • Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Download a complimentary, fully functional trial version of Office Professional 2010.
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Download a complimentary, fully functional trial version of SharePoint 2010
• Video
  • Health Tech Today video: Mapping your health Where you live may impact your health as much as your diets or genetics. Bill Davenhall from ESRI joins us to explain this missing link in your medical history.
  • Health Tech Today: Mapping Mutations Finding an HIV vaccine relies on tracking huge amounts of data and rapid mutations. Learn how researchers are finding pivotal characteristics with help from Microsoft Research.
  • CareGroup Healthcare System See how CareGroup Healthcare System uses SQL Server 2008 R2 to make massive amounts of data accessible and manageable for staff.
  • Learn how Microsoft SharePoint Server helps drive economic impact Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 helps healthcare organisations to drive productivity and create cost efficiencies through a unified collaboration platform. A study by Forrester examines the economic impact of SharePoint 2010.
• Case Studies
  • Alice Springs Hospital The Alice Springs Hospital consolidated its disparate IT systems to create a unified Health Intelligence solution that enables staff to login with a single button, view patient statuses in real-time, prioritise care more accurately and reduce missed results.
  • Austin Health Austin Health implements a more effective way of providing hospital staff with more detailed, up-to-date information on everything from surgery wait lists to finance, using a business intelligence solution based on Microsoft® SQL Server®.
  • Djerriwarrah Health Services Djerriwarrh Health Services uses reporting and analysis technology to improve resource management, reduce patient absenteeism and secure additional funding.
  • Royal Woman's Hospital Royal Woman's Hospital uses New Reporting and Information System Exchange (RISE) to align performance with targets, and plan and manage hospital resources more effectively.
  • Royal Adelaide Hospital Royal Adelaide Hospital deployed an operational tool that would enable them to smooth patient flow by increasing bed availability, reducing outlier patient placement, improve patient discharge times and more accurately forecast staff resource requirements.
  • Melbourne Health Melbourne Health now delivers vital health management information such as executive scorecards and critical reports using their new Patient Administration System implemented under the HealthSMART program.
  • Ambulance Service of New South Wales The Ambulance Service of New South Wales has sped filing of field situation reports from what took as much as half an hour to as little as three minutes.
  • Kemofarmacija Healthcare company Kemofarmcija uses sophisticated analysis tools to help improve business intelligence and enhances access to accurate information on company-wide sales and service team performance.
  • Hospital de Faro Hospital de Faro in Portugal improves operations and patient care, establishing powerful BI capabilities to help improve patient care targets and transform the role of IT into a strategic resource.
  • NHS Nottingham Primary Care Trust NHS Nottinghamshire County (PCT) is embracing Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies to deliver fast and easy access to meaningful information to help improve productivity and make informed decisions.
  • Clalit Health Services Clalit Health Services decided on an early upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Enterprise to take advantage of new features including data compression, enhanced star join functionality and support for spatial data types to improve service delivery.
  • Caregroup Healthcare System Caregroup Healthcare System upgraded to SQL Server 2008 to better protect the privacy of its two terabytes of data.
• Whitepapers
  • Choose the right business intelligence technology to suit your style
  • Forrester 2010 Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform Wave This Forrester report highlights the ubiquity of Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint as key to Microsoft’s current and future success.
  • Technology to maximise Business Productivity: Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Office Communications Server.
  • The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
• Technical Papers
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
  • What is Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot?
  • Q&A Customer Experience with Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot
• Health Tech Today
  • Fast Search Doctors rely on relevant and accurate information to deliver the best patient care. The new CTO of NHS Evidence, Andrew Fenton, makes the case for a new medical search engine.
  • Mapping MutationsFinding an HIV vaccine relies on tracking huge amounts of data and rapid mutations. Learn how researchers are finding pivotal characteristics with help of Microsoft Research.
  • Translating TechnologyThe Microsoft Biology Foundation provides an open source platform that allows data sets to communicate, facilitating collaboration and helping to accelerate research.
  • Mapping your health Discover how where you live could affect your health.
  • Healthcare with a smile Find out how blue-chip company processes have helped improve healthcare in Denver.
  • Technology transformed See how the Virginia Mason Medical Clinic has improved efficiency using technology.