Healthcare organizations have long struggled with implementing new technologies. No one can blame them: it’s hard to take a highly regulated, complex industry such as healthcare and move the needle forward quickly. No matter how hard they try, all too often, healthcare organizations are mired in age-old processes that are hard to break out of in order to innovate.
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However, with the growth of big data, there are new opportunities to gain insights that will benefit healthcare organizations. Here are just a few of the many ways:
- Better analyzing finances
- Reducing quality variation
- Gaining efficiencies in the OR
- Improving surgical outcomes
The question is – how are best-in-class organizations breaking out of the mold and accomplishing all this despite the challenging healthcare technology environment?
The answer lies in analytics
New research from Aberdeen shows that healthcare organizations that have taken the plunge into analytics are reaping the rewards of better insights and enhanced operational efficiency. These organizations are more likely than their peers to make faster decisions and see improvements in knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Top healthcare organizations surveyed are 82% more likely to see improvements in knowledge sharing and collaboration.
-Aberdeen research (Tweet this.)
They are also much more likely to have data governance processes in place to help guide users to the right data instead of having their users paralyzed by too much information.
How does your hospital stack up? Check out these 5 statistics from Aberdeen on how top healthcare organizations compare to their peers when it comes to analytics.
Coming up later in this blog series
Hungry for more? Don’t worry, we’ll give it to you.
Interested in some of the practical applications of analytics in hospitals? That’s coming in our next post when we’ll examine 5 ways healthcare organizations are deriving insights from big data.
Then, a deeper dive into the research. We’ll see how smart healthcare organizations are using analytics to get ahead, and you’ll get a chance to download the full Aberdeen research report.
Stay tuned.
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Kathy started her career in television news writing and producing. She then worked at a public relations agency and as a freelance writer before joining Dimensional Insight in 2013.
Kathy has presented at several events in both healthcare and wine & spirits, including the Healthcare Innovation Summit, the Healthcare IT Marketing & PR Conference (HITMC), and the WSWA Women’s Leadership Council (WLC) Conference. Kathy is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and a member of Women of the Vine & Spirits.
She is also host of the Smarter Healthcare Podcast (www.smarthcpodcast.com) and is a member of the Forbes Communications Council.
Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Boston University.
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