More Data Drives Strategy at a Rural Hospital.

Abstract

All leaders of healthcare organizations, individually and collectively, must make critically important decisions every day. But how are those decisions made? What factors must leaders take into account? And how has the way they make those decisions changed over the years? In today's fast-moving world, healthcare leaders face increasing pressures to make far-reaching decisions not only accurately, but also more quickly than ever. Especially for a small critical access hospital, there is little room for error or delay. At Nemaha County Hospital, we have found that clinical and business decisions drawn from more reliable data are much better than those based on anecdotal information.