IBM to build analytics platform for NYC hospital system

New platform will standardize information from patients, providers, locations and reimbursement codes

By Healthcare Facilities Today


The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. has awarded IBM a one-year, $10 million contract to build an analytics platform to improve patient care and operational efficiency, according to an article on the Modern Healthcare website.

HHC, the municipal safety net system that serves more than 1.4 million New York residents each year, currently relies on manual and disparate systems to measure and report on quality metrics, according to the article. The new Enterprise Health Analytics platform will standardize information from patients, providers, locations and reimbursement codes, as it integrates data across the organization into one common healthcare data model.

“At HHC, we have so much information and data that can be used to achieve our vision for quality, access and efficiency,” Bert Robles, HHC senior VP and corporate chief information officer, said in a news release. “What's been missing is the right tool that can draw insights from scale and diversity of our data.”

The goal of the platform in New York is to bring together financial, human resources, supply chain, operations and clinical data with advanced analytics tools “to help providers make smarter healthcare decisions that improve patient outcomes and reduce the risk of future complications that might bring them back to the hospital,” Sean Hogan, IBM's vice president of healthcare said in the release.

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September 23, 2013


Topic Area: Information Technology


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