“Despite all of the technological capabilities and data available, some healthcare organizations still rely on a hodgepodge of disconnected data, institutional memory or intuition for making key operational decisions.
Too often, hospital decision makers rely on labor-intensive, error-prone spreadsheet analysis to make important departmental decisions. These departmental decisions are often made without the benefit of a holistic view or understanding of their ripple effect across the hospital or health system as a whole. This frequently results in negative overall consequences for the organization and patients. There are a number of contributing factors that can led to this lag in technology adoption. Traditionally, these factors have included:
• Lack of pressure to be efficient because of historically high reimbursement rates.
• Lack of formal training in operations science for leaders who rise through the ranks from clinical backgrounds.
• Lack of access to timely and reliable data.
In the face of industry demands to cut costs and improve efficiency, technology is playing a more prominent role in helping hospitals and health systems move away from a reactive approach to managing patient flow and take actions to mitigate bottlenecks before they happen. Data and analytics, combined with human process improvements, go a long way towards helping organizations make critical patient flow decisions that not only support better patient care, but create happier staff and more profitable operations.”
The foregoing excerpt from “HIT Think How predictive analytics can help guide operational decisions” by Richard Krueger in the May 2, 2018, edition of Health Data Management (https://bit.ly/2JQr1RM) describes an all too common and particularly problematic situation in hospitals these days, which can lead not only to poor strategic and operational performance in the long and medium term but also potentially fatal tactics for patient care and treatment in the near term.
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