Clinical dashboards that help you report and make informed, immediate decisions
Often, when using different systems, the same information will be needed time and time again, but in different formats. Sometimes reports are needed on unforeseen areas, requiring manual collation of data going back weeks or months. In both cases, a lack of standardised data aggregation, access and analysis tools prevents healthcare organisations from focusing on running operations and improving patient care.
How do hospitals and NHS trusts collect and act upon data to improve performance and comply with reporting requirements?
Clinical dashboards offer clinicians and management the opportunity to monitor performance and compliance, and report information in a variety of ways, in near real-time. This reduces the resources needed to ensure compliance, improves operational efficiency and lowers costs.
Challenges for clinicians:
- Variety of reporting requirements with frequent amendments and additional requirements
- Data held in numerous disparate systems
- No single real-time view of data
- Historical reporting and dashboards are weeks to months in arrears
- Potential activity reporting issues
What they want:
- Access to the right information to gain a holistic view of organisational performance
- To ensure fast, accurate reporting and compliance
- A single combined view of the information
- Flexibility to run ad hoc reports and meet changing requirements
- Reduce the administrative burden of information management
How Microsoft Amalga can help
Amalga, combined with SharePoint, provides a fast, reliable, powerful and flexible dashboard solution for clinicians and healthcare managers. Clinical dashboards enable easy analysis of key performance indicators, quickly and accurately compile statutory CDS data returns, drill down to identify individual patients at risk and proactively manage frequent patients with the most appropriate care pathways.
Amalga enables this through:
- Near real-time and continuous data aggregation
- Configurable displays for clinicians and operational users
- Maximising the usefulness of data from existing systems by integrating different feeds
- Enabling the manipulation of existing data to answer questions as they arise
- User-friendly dashboard interface that allows for easy recall and interrogation of data
Benefits for clinicians and management
- Lowers costs and resources associated with reporting and compliance
- Single view of clinical and operational performance
- Ensure fast, accurate reporting and compliance
- Flexibility of analysis and the ability to ask unforeseen questions
