Institute for Health Metrics

1 New England Executive Park

Burlington, MA 01803

781.328.3000

info@healthmetrics.org

White Papers - What We Do With Our Member Hospitals

There is a growing need for easily accessible data to support proliferating hospital quality initiatives.  We extract data from the Meditech systems of our member hospitals and turn this data into useful reports for clinically-trained professionals.

A tremendous amount of data is gathered in Meditech in the course of normal daily life at a hospital.  We leverage the strengths of information technology and clinical intelligence.  We are expert in locating and extracting this data.  We have computers do what they are good at: gather and synthesize data.  We create usable reports with this data and deliver it back to our member hospitals, along with trending and benchmarks.

The result?  Clinical professionals are not tediously doing what the computer can do so well. They now have the time to do what they do so well - analyze and assess clinical information and drive performance improvement.