More than 1,800 individuals at 22 hospitals completed the inaugural survey.
Participating organizations ran the gamut from ambulatory centers to large integrated delivery network; there was even an international hospital. The organizations were:
"The percent of hospitals with clinical data warehouse and data mining has grown considerably in the past year," said Gaston. "Hospitals are collecting more data -- what they are doing with that data is another thing."
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As providers strive to implement and then effectively use business intelligence tools -- moving from descriptive analytics to prescriptive analytics, to, ultimately, predictive analytics -- many of them are still trying to figure out the best way to go about it.
The findings of the survey bear this out:
- Most providers say analytics as important but have only reached moderate levels of maturity.
- Leadership is key: organizations with chief analytics officers on the executive team are more advanced than those that don't.
- Big data is viewed as one of the least important competencies by hospitals -- a big contrast to other industries.
- Executives are much more critical of their analytics performance others in their organization.
- Providers with the highest analytics maturity place high importance on the use of data throughout the organization.
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