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is important to be able to capture different data points , particularly if another provider is involved , which could be transportation or a medical centre . " The dashboard enables them to see the same information everyone else is seeing " Gentzlinger says .
Flannery adds : " One of the biggest challenges is linking data sets together to make them interoperable and comparable . As healthcare providers seek efficiencies by merging different organisations and trusts together , we have a growing problem of siloed , separated sets of data that can ’ t easily be combined or analysed .
" In many ways , healthcare has reached a tipping point : it knows the power of harnessing actionable big data , but it faces a systemic challenge , in that the language of healthcare remains largely unstandardised , limiting what can be understood across platforms ."
In Premier ' s case , using data this way has helped them retain staff . " We have had a tremendous uptick in employee retention " Gentzlinger says . " All of a sudden we started to see we were engaging a workforce that has historically been cast aside , as they ' re neither doctors or nurses and they sort of go from agency to agency . But when we started investing in their training this created a career path ."
Next Premier wants to take RTD out of home care and apply it to the wider healthcare sector . " We operate in eight states so we have a few different goals . In Illinois they have a state funded care management system and I think this would really help them start collecting information about the patients that they ' re serving " Gentzlinger says .
" We really want to tap into the Medicare space , and focus on reducing hospitalisations , and enabling data points and triggers for the population we ' re serving , whether it ' s home care or home health ." healthcareglobal . com 79