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Portfolios of Care
With the cost, quality and complexity of healthcare under a national microscope these days, some hospitals are already realizing critical improvements by implementing project portfolio management, thanks to niche solutions designed specifically for their needs.
Prior to 2006, barometers of patient care and hospital performance at the then-500-bed Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa., were tracked via a homegrown intranet application. Only one person maintained it, laughs Tony Simek, the hospital's director of quality data management, "Me."
"Anytime I did something, someone wanted more so we got caught in a cycle of maintaining it," Simek says, "It was one of about eight hats I was wearing at the time."
Today the growing hospital has more than 600 beds, 45,000 yearly admissions and 100,000 emergency room visits, and that homegrown intranet is now a fully scalable web-based project portfolio management software tool, developed for the health care market by Performance Logic, called HealthCommander.
Gone are the days of admissions and registration logging patients into two different databases or one person juggling a hospital's worth of data. Simek now has the ability to track some 2,000 performance metrics, including clinical indicators like patient safety, patient satisfaction, even …
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