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A New Integration and Analytics Strategy for Brant Community Healthcare System
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Process Control & Optimization
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) was facing challenges in reporting and data analysis due to the manual extraction of data from MEDITECH. The time-consuming process of creating Excel spreadsheets and cleaning data was not adding value to the leaders as the data was not available in a timely fashion or interpretable to inform day-to-day decision-making. Furthermore, the creation and management of reports required a minimum of two full-time employees. BCHS initially sought a way to make reporting easier. But over time, the organization realized it needed a solution that went beyond reporting, to also encompass data quality and the integration of its back-end systems.
About The Customer
Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) is a large community hospital that delivers healthcare services to more than 120,000 residents in Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations in southwestern Ontario, Canada. BCHS was formed from the partnership between the Willett Hospital in Paris, and the Brantford General Hospital. This partnership is demonstrative of activity that is reshaping the healthcare industry today, and the new requirements for accurate, real-time reporting and analytics that emerge from those alliances. The Decision Support Team at BCHS was among the many healthcare IT professionals facing such challenges. The team is responsible for providing BCHS leaders with various reports and analyses.
The Solution
BCHS chose business intelligence (BI), data integrity, and integration solutions from Information Builders for their ability to provide end-to-end management of all information assets. BCHS purchased a variety of Information Builders software, including the WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform, iWay DataMigrator, and iWay Data Quality Suite (DQS). The combination of these three solutions provide a single, unified platform that empowers BCHS to integrate data, ensure data accuracy and validity, and synthesize this data for end-users. As a result of the deployment, end users are able to answer critical questions and uncover important trends for both short-term issue resolution and long-term planning.
Operational Impact
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