Hospital association using Qbase analytics to improve
patient care

GDAHA hires Qbase to run trauma event data through its data
discovery service, learns key areas to improve patient care

(April 6, 2007)

DAYTON, Ohio — The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association has been working diligently to help its members improve their operations and patient care. The association’s latest effort has been to use data analytics to look at its members’ trauma event data in ways that will help them improve their care.

To do this, GDAHA hired Qbase, a data management and analytics company based in the Dayton Region, to analyze its members’ 2005 and 2006 data. “One of our members’ biggest challenges is turning the incredibly large amount of data into actionable reports to accurately assess how we are doing operationally,” said Bryan Bucklew, GDAHA’s President & CEO. “Before working with Qbase, the turnaround time for reporting was measured in months and now is measured in days and weeks.”

“What’s important to our clients and to Qbase is that we can use our tools to provide real-world, life-changing results,” said Bill Pardue, CEO of Qbase. “Healthcare providers collect an enormous amount of data throughout their patient care process and we’re able to help them make much better sense of what they have.”

Key data that was analyzed for GDAHA’s use included central tendencies associated with trauma – population characteristics, average times of patient stays, the nature of the trauma, and frequency of occurrences.

“Our goal, of course, is to help our members better understand what their staffs are currently experiencing in terms of arrival days and times, types of trauma faced, and other aspects of trauma events that help them staff and prepare to provide optimal care,” said Bucklew. “Seeing what Qbase Data Management tools provided was a tremendous experience for us.” Qbase analyzed the centralized data across 14 hospitals as well as the aggregate data for the combined member organizations.

Gary Lustgarten, Network Director for Kettering Health Network, echoed Bucklew’s comments. “Moving forward, we’re using Qbase to deliver current data in trauma as well as in other areas of concern for us, such as patient safety. We’ll know better and sooner what’s happening in our facilities.”

Qbase is helping GDAHA think about data management in new ways, as well. “As a part of their recommendations, Qbase analysts understand ways we can change data collection to be more useful for us when we start to analyze it,” said Bucklew. “This will bring even greater opportunities to improve patient care throughout the region.”

The technology
Qbase offers solutions covering a full range of data management and analytics. “Qbase tools help our clients consolidate and organize their data in clear, logical ways and then performs analytics such as predictive modeling to harness their data for better decision-making,” said Pardue.

Qbase Data Management Services
Qbase offers a proprietary suite of descriptive analysis tools to help clients see their data in new ways. From data discovery to data cleansing and normalization, Qbase helps organizations see what’s in their data, what’s not, and better understand what steps to take to improve their data collection practices.

Qbase Data Analytics Services
Qbase also offers a proprietary suite of data analytics services to help clients make better decisions affecting their objectives. Solutions include custom scoring, formulas for propensity and capacity modeling, clustering and segmentation.

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