Health Business Intelligence | Microsoft Australia

Enable evidence-based decisions Collate and analyse data from systems across your entire healthcare network to help staff manage beds, staffing and resources. Provide healthcare professionals with faster, easier access to the information they need via a single portal through which all reports can be managed and accessed. Allow users to pull their own reports rather than rely on a centralised publishing process, giving all staff access to information they need in the format they prefer.

What healthcare professionals are saying "Reports are available within two hours of
month-end closure instead of four days. This saving has allowed more time to be devoted to analysis rather than the constant grind of just getting the numbers out."

Frank Vosnidis, Manager, Business Analysis and Reporting,
Southern Health

Promote a culture of continuous improvement Take a strategic approach to measuring performance across your healthcare organisation with real-time data on departments, teams, processes right down to individual physicians.
Ensure best practice by embedding automated clinical pathways with alerts into patient management systems.

What people are saying "We now have the data to determine best practices for both patient care and operating
room efficiency. The information management system has made a revolutionary difference in
the way the OR operates."

Dr. Michael Higgins,
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Compare treatments and procedures Enable clinicians to make quantifiable improvements to care by having access to comparative outcomes analysis of different treatments and procedures. Microsoft BI can assist with diagnosing and treating patients and evaluating treatments. For example, data from operation-level clinical systems can be used to distinguish new disease patterns, compare the effectiveness of clinical procedures and protocols, and review program performance.

What people are saying "In three days’ time, Microsoft and Orlando Software Group were able to provide us with more business intelligence and insight than we were able to achieve in two years of study."

Dr. Christopher DeFlitch,
Director and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Simplify reporting and compliance Reduce the time it takes to provide reports for regulatory bodies and funding allocations by setting up a BI solution that simply generates the data in real-time, ready for review. Microsoft solutions can include the relevant metrics and create reports in the format you require – from a scorecard, to a dashboard, ready to present or print on demand.

What people are saying "We have decentralised quality improvement
and enabled everyone to improve their own services. Clinicians see relevant clinical data, managers see management reports and
executive and hospital committees can view overall performance data."

Dr. Chris Farmer,
Director, Medical Administration, Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide

Manage your own BI solution in house BI isn’t a one size fits all solution. Your requirements and circumstances will continually evolve. That’s why Microsoft BI is designed to be flexible. Not only does it integrate with diverse clinical and administration so you can leverage your existing IT investment, it’s also easy to adapt and evolve using your own IT team’s skills. So if you want a new scorecard or report, you can set it up yourself.

What people are saying "The beauty of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005
is that it allows us to continually add new scorecards and reports ourselves, making it a flexible, cost-efficient proposition."

Mathew Long
Senior Business Analyst, Decision Support, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Improve communication and collaboration Microsoft BI solutions enable you to update information from a range of systems, such as patient management and nurse rostering in real-time and make it available in one portal for staff to view. As a result teams can collaborate more effectively to provide better care – not just in a ward or unit, but across organisations, facilities and services.

What people are saying "Patient information is now quickly and easily accessible from anywhere in the department.
The new Microsoft-based BI solution is really helping us deliver a higher standard for the patients we serve."

Dan Germain,
Chief Financial and Information Officer, The Credit Valley Hospital, Canada

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