Case Study: South Georgia Medical Center achieves 3 days per quarter in labor savings with Strata Decision Technology's Comparative Analytics

Comparative Data Provides Actionable Intelligence to South Georgia Medical Center

South Georgia Medical Center (SGMC) turned to Strata Decision Technology to address inconsistent benchmarking and inefficient reporting. SGMC needed accurate, reliable target benchmarks to understand labor efficiency and a way for department directors to self-serve dashboards; their prior solution (IBM/Vizient Action OI) required manual data entry, only updated quarterly, and allowed inconsistent peer-group selection.

Strata Decision Technology implemented its Comparative Analytics alongside SGMC’s existing Axiom suite (Axiom Budgeting, Axiom Financial Planning, Axiom Performance Reporting, Axiom Productivity Reporting), using existing data connections to deliver a larger, timelier dataset and standardized peer groups. The deployment provided monthly automated data, saved about three days of labor per quarter, enabled new annual target benchmarks and budget plan files, and gave leaders uniform, actionable intelligence to drive measurable cost reductions in labor and supplies.

South Georgia Medical Center

Daniel Rickman

Business Intelligence Director