Data Drives Decisions at Grand River Hospital
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- Canada
产品
- iWay DataMigrator
- WebFOCUS
- InfoAssist
技术栈
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle Database
- MUMPS database
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据库管理和存储
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用行业
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 质量保证
用例
- 预测性维护
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 数据科学服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Grand River Hospital is a 615-bed community hospital with 3,100 employees and 582 physicians and midwives. The hospital serves more than 500,000 residents in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada, delivering a full range of acute and restorative care, including: cancer, childbirth, pediatrics, intensive care, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, renal, mental health and addictions, medicine, stroke, surgery, and complex continuing care services on two main campuses.
挑战
Grand River Hospital, a 615-bed community hospital in Ontario, Canada, was struggling with outdated data management technology. The hospital's IM/IT environment included more than 60 source systems, and an 11-member decision-support team depended on the IM/IT department to produce reports. Team members specialized in their own specific systems, making the production of cross-segment reports especially difficult. Hospital officials wanted to pull data from all these systems into one cohesive source and facilitate timely and accurate reporting for hospital decision-makers.
解决方案
To achieve their goals, Grand River Hospital implemented integration and business intelligence (BI) technology from Information Builders. They used iWay DataMigrator to extract, transform, and load (ETL) five years of historical data from these systems into an enterprise data warehouse. DataMigrator includes introspection tools to examine a database schema so that system designers can select precisely what database information will be accessed, and develop rules for doing so. The hospital also used Information Builders’ advanced ETL platform to integrate several additional information systems. The new data warehouse has become the foundation for advanced analytics such as case costing – a detailed tracking of costs related to each patient. The hospital also uses WebFOCUS and InfoAssist to supplement an existing system of dashboards, scorecards, and reports.
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