Case Study: Queensway Carleton Hospital boosts performance-based funding compliance with Information Builders ibi Analytics

Queensway Carleton Hospital spends 80% of decision support time on improvement projects with Information Builders

Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) faced financial pressure from Canada's performance-based funding model and needed to analyze a broad array of data from siloed systems to meet its objectives. Their challenge was inefficient, time-consuming reporting processes that made it difficult to obtain accurate clinical data in real time. To address this, QCH partnered with vendor Information Builders (ibi) to implement its analytics platform and data integration technologies.

The solution from Information Builders involved designing a new data model to combine sources like MEDITECH and Med2020, which included built-in ETL tools and enabled self-service analytics. This empowered staff to create their own reports and dashboards, leading to a significant shift in operations. A key result was that decision support staff now spend 80% of their time on value-added improvement projects instead of 100% on generating reports, and the hospital gained the ability to predict patient trends to better plan for funding targets.

Queensway Carleton Hospital