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Children’s Hospital Association Selects Health Catalyst’s Late-Binding Data Warehouse to Enhance Comparative Analytics for Its Members
Data platform supports children’s hospital improvements in clinical quality and operational efficiency
SALT LAKE CITY, UT & OVERLAND PARK, KS -– March 31, 2015 – The Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), the voice of children’s hospitals nationwide, has selected Health Catalyst’s Late-Binding™ Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to enhance comparative analytics for its 220 member hospitals, supporting their efforts to improve care and reduce costs for pediatric patients.
CHA will use the EDW to aggregate clinical and operational data from its member pediatric hospitals, accelerating their ability to evaluate evidence-based practices and benchmark their performance against peers. The EDW will enable children’s hospitals to submit data for analysis using automation and centralize the data on a single platform for faster and more comprehensive analyses.
“This strategic relationship with Health Catalyst will enable the Association to deliver the next generation of our data and analytics programs to meet our members’ needs and support improved child health,” said Mark Wietecha, president and CEO of Children’s Hospital Association.
CHA will pilot the new capabilities with Milwaukee-based Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest pediatric facility, in Houston. Both hospitals are current Health Catalyst clients and CHA members. The pilot will give CHA the ability to draw data directly from the two hospitals’ source systems, such as electronic health records, and house the information in the data warehouse for analysis.
“CHA and the comparative analysis they provide has been a key enabler of our quality improvement efforts for years,” said Peggy Troy, RN, MSN, President and CEO of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. “We expect this new approach will significantly accelerate the quality improvement efforts not only of Children’s of Wisconsin but of pediatric hospitals across the country.”
Charles G. Macias MD, MPH, Chief Clinical Systems Integration Officer for Texas Children’s Hospital, added, “Texas Children’s has been working with Health Catalyst since 2012 to help drive improvements in clinical care and administrative services and as a result we’ve increased productivity, lowered costs, and improved the quality of care for our patients. We are big believers in the power of the enterprise data warehouse as well as CHA’s analytics solutions, and we’re looking forward to helping CHA leverage the technology to improve care in our peer organizations across the country.”
Automating and centralizing the collection of data means that more time can be spent analyzing the data and meeting the needs of the member hospitals. CHA and Health Catalyst expect to build reports and applications on the new platform to provide additional benefits to CHA members.
“This is an exciting, strategic relationship that leverages our deep experience in helping children’s hospitals improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of patient care,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “This work is so important, so meaningful, and so true to our mission as a company. What better place to apply our best efforts to improve outcomes, than helping the nation’s children’s hospitals to keep getting better?”
About the Children’s Hospital Association
The Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care. For more information on CHA, visit www.childrenshospitals.org.About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing and analytics company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Our proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 50 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.Posted 4.1.2015 -
Blast Off! MEDITECH to Launch Web Ambulatory EHR at HIMSS 2015
This innovative technology is the cornerstone of MEDITECH’s mission to reimagine healthcare & redefine productivity.
WESTWOOD, MA – Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) is breaking new ground at HIMSS 2015 in Chicago, as the vendor will showcase how its innovative Web EHR is transforming productivity for healthcare providers in an increasingly value-based world.
Booth #6315 is where MEDITECH will publicly launch its new Web Ambulatory functionality, during a special event on Monday, April 13. Customers, prospects, and media will have the opportunity to see how the Web EHR will enhance physicians’ ability to meet consumer demands and deliver quality care across the continuum.
“We’re very excited to be showing our bold, new Web EHR for the ambulatory setting,” said Helen Waters, MEDITECH VP of sales and marketing. “It’s really going to revolutionize the way clinicians practice, and bring usability to a whole new level by emphasizing the physician experience.”
Each day of the conference, MEDITECH customers will be present in the booth to talk about why their organizations selected the Web EHR, including:
- Ed Ricks, VP Information Services & CIO at Beaufort Memorial (Beaufort, SC)
- Tom Stafford, PMP, VP & CIO at Halifax Health Medical Center (Daytona, FL)
- Cindy Peterson, VP & CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital (Valencia, CA)
- Dr. David Niland, Medical Information Officer at Galway Clinic (Galway, Ireland)
Also new this year, a variety of physician and executive leaders will be at the booth discussing key industry topics, during featured session presentations. Attendees can learn more about MEDITECH’s strategic direction, as well as their approach to population health management, interoperability, physician productivity, and disruptive technologies.
“Healthcare organizations today are dealing with a great deal of change and rapidly rising expectations, and we are all evolving with the times,” said Waters. “MEDITECH has successfully reimagined what an EHR can do, and we can’t wait to show everyone the results at HIMSS this year. If you think you know us, think again.”
Members of the media should contact PR Representative Liz Carroll for more information, and/or to coordinate interviews with MEDITECH executives and customers. Liz can be reached at [email protected] or (781) 774-3279.
About MEDITECH
Today, more than 2,300 institutions worldwide use MEDITECH’s fully integrated, interoperable EHR to provide healthcare to the communities they serve. Their robust, patient-centered technology spans the healthcare continuum, including unique functional capacity for the following environments: ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, rehabilitation services, behavioral health, and home health care.Posted 4.1.2015