This website is about the important challenges in healthcare analytics and several projects that need to pursued.
We are all aware that there is an exceptional growth in the amount of data being collected and yet in many ways we still analyze data in very much the same manner as 25 years ago.
Twenty five years ago (1993) I began working in the Intensive Care Unit of a 800+ bed hospital in Canada. The ICU had already established a paper-based data collection system when I started. Patient information was collected on a daily basis on every patient admitted to the ICU. These paper records were then entered into a PC database. As Quality Improvement and Research projects dictated we would write queries from the database to provide these ad-hoc requests.
We require Clinical, Administrative, and Financial data on every patient admitted to the ICU. This way if we make a change in the system we knew the clinical parameters and outcome, the administrative impact, and the costs of those changes.
Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (~1993)
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We have hundreds of questions that we want to answer, and thousands of questions that we aren’t even away of yet.
This website is about the development of technical solutions to help us quickly and accurately address several issues facing healthcare.
- Understanding all of our data in a timely and cost effective manner.
- Understanding Patient Trajectories both pre and post admission to acute care hospitals.
- Simulating changes to the health system from both an acute care hospital and a public health perspective.
- Utilizing Published Literature in new and novel ways.