EORLA BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION

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EORLA’S LAB BI SYSTEM HELPS THEM UNLOCK THE POWER OF THEIR DATA IN THIS ISSUE

Using Organizational and Clinical Data to Improve Clinical and Business Outcomes

EORLA BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION

The Eastern Ontario Regional Lab Association (EORLA) has implemented an integrated regional laboratory services model which delivers hospital-based laboratory services to meet the needs of Eastern Ontario. As part of this initiative, EORLA has implemented a Business Intelligence/ Data Warehouse solution to meet their organizational reporting requirements for 16 laboratory sites that are operating at 19 geographical locations. The EORLA BI solution uses both structured and unstructured data models to allow for maximum flexibility and in depth insight.

The repository of data (data warehouse) contains data from many distinct areas that are involved with the delivery of laboratory services. The following are some of the main data sources:

Business Benefits of a Lab BI Systems

Increased visibility on scheduling and payroll metrics, leading to better deployment and utilization of staff

The ability to measure productivity and zero in on the root cause of any issues

New insights into sick leave, helping reduce employee sick time

Performance monitoring capabilities leading to increased throughput

Improved visibility on financial practices, leading to better billing and cost allocation

Clinical Benefits of a Lab BI Systems

Analysis of laboratory ordering patterns can help inform decisions that affect physician behaviour

Insights into lab activity by location, specimen, time of day, etc. help lead to improved turnaround times

Test specific data helps clinical managers make decisions optimizing test location allocations

Laboratory Data Payroll

Scheduling Financial

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EORLA BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION

Technology PlatformThe technology platform leveraged and extended EORLA’s existing MS SQL Server technology. Taking advantage of newer technologies, including “Hadoop Active Storage”, HL7 messages can be stored in perpetuity.

This enabled the creation of the Clinical Access Layer and Dashboard capabilities, providing EORLA with both standardized and ad-hoc access to relevant data. Furthermore, to satisfy EORLA’s need for a more robust Business

Intelligence experience, the “Jaspersoft” BI tool was integrated into the existing Microsoft stack. This will be made available to the user community with “Liferay” as the Portal engine to expose these data sources in a secure manner over the web. The above diagram is a high level overview of the architecture.

Who We AreCareWay Informatics provides Business intelligence services and Health Analytics solutions that enable healthcare organizations to achieve measurable improvements by surfacing and collecting data from any clinical, financial, or health information systems. Our flexible approach to Health Analytics relies on the Microsoft analytics stack as well as other technologies such as Hadoop and Jaspersoft because of the pragmatic, well performing, and cost effective approach of these technologies.

Reach out and ask us about our experience and how we can help you visualize your organization through a new lens of meaningful Health Analytics.

For more information, contact:George GargarellaManaging Partner613.298.1302g.gargarella@ careway.ca