Authors:
James P. McGlothlin
1
;
Evan Crawford
1
;
Jesse Wyatt
2
;
Carlos Samayoa
2
;
Yana Vaks
2
;
Brenda Bruneau
2
;
Merrick Lopez
2
;
Anthony Moretti
2
;
Michele Wilson
2
and
James Pappas
2
Affiliations:
1
Fusion Consulting Inc, United States
;
2
Loma Linda University Health System, United States
Keyword(s):
Data Warehousing, Healthcare Analytics, Quality, Pediatric Intensive Care, Business Intelligence.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Datawarehousing
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Major events and surgeries are not the only sources of trauma during a hospital encounter. Many small, less
invasive events such as shots, line placements, blood draws, and imaging studies happen throughout a
patient’s hospital stay. Many of these less traumatic events have the potential to negatively impact patient
outcomes by increasing the risk of hospital-acquired infections through skin invasions and exposure to
organisms, reducing the patient experience by causing pain and frustration, increasing cost and causing other
complications. The goal of this project is to reduce such events when they are not clinically required. This
is an analytics project so this goal is facilitated by making accurate and meaningful information available to
the appropriate personnel. This includes timely information to clinicians so they can alter treatment, and
retrospective trend analysis to enable and track performance improvement and identify opportunities for
additional process improvement.