Case Study: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh achieves 24-hour-to-5-minute data refresh and standardized care with Qlik

Integrating Qlik within Cerner allowed Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC to cut inefficiencies and standardize care processes

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, a top-10 pediatric hospital, struggled to turn the massive, highly sensitive data generated across admissions, surgeries and records into timely, actionable insight. Their Cerner Millennium reports were complex (over 5,000 tables), could only be navigated by administrators, and refreshed every 24 hours—too slow and opaque to support fast clinical and operational decision-making.

By integrating Qlik into Cerner, CHP transformed hundreds of millions of rows of data into simple, governed dashboards with refreshes that went from 24 hours to five minutes. Qlik apps now support 500+ clinicians and administrators (ED, surgical analysis, and clinical pathways), driving an 11% reduction in appendicitis care costs, fewer readmissions, corrected data errors, streamlined registration and standardized workflows, with plans to expand dashboards to further reduce costs and improve care.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Christopher Myers

System Analyst