Case Study: Allina Health achieves improved care quality and ACO readiness with Qlik (QlikView)

Qlikview Gives Allina Health The Tools To Deliver High Quality Affordable Care And Operate As A Pioneer Aco

Allina Health is a not‑for‑profit health system serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin with 90+ clinics, 15 pharmacies and nearly 24,000 staff. Facing the data and reporting demands of the Pioneer ACO model and the need to deliver high‑quality, affordable, coordinated care, Allina needed a scalable information infrastructure to aggregate its Epic/Excellian EMR and enterprise data (multi‑terabyte) and make performance metrics actionable across the organization.

Allina deployed QlikView to build five role‑based dashboards (patient census, patient experience, ambulatory quality, clinic experience and potentially preventable readmissions), giving clinicians and managers self‑service access to real‑time insights. The solution improved transparency and collaboration, supported ACO reporting, and drove measurable improvements—stroke care up >40%, HCAHPS overall rating +12%, cardiovascular length‑of‑stay down 20% in five months, depression remission +30%, PCI use of Bivalirudin +80%—with roughly 1,000 unique users and reduced readmission variation.

Allina Health

Mike Doyle

Enterprise Data Warehouse Manager