How a System Is Closing the Evidence-Based Data Management Gap.

To translate raw data into information that is understandable and actionable, healthcare leaders must leverage decision-making tools that can drive strategic innovation, improve processes, and shape the future of healthcare. Continuous changes in healthcare delivery require constant monitoring of an expanding range of data. Population demographics, psychographics, and availability of care all must be considered, as well as provider practice patterns, patient utilization, clinical and service quality, costs, and many other key variables over time. RWJBarnabas Health is navigating significant changes in its approach to managing data. A unified operating model is driving standardization, continuous quality improvement, and cost reductions across the system. The solution is based on an electronic health record system designed to meet the needs of the entire system, an array of carefully selected external data sources, and a business intelligence tool to enable leaders to quickly draw insights from all the available data.