As changes continue to reshape the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are finding that they must view themselves differently than in the past and improve their methodology to gather the right data in an efficient way. Hospitals need information that allows them to measure their performance in a wide range of key areas: regulatory requirements, patient care, healthcare services, outcomes operations, and finance. Rich Information Applications have a massive impact on a Healthcare organizations ability to deliver services, create differentiation and enhance market appeal. Read more about Actuate Solutions for Healthcare.

1. Industry
The people behind BIRT TM
Solutions
Rich Information Applications Enable
Healthcare Providers to Maintain Healthy Data
As changes continue to reshape the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are
finding that they must view themselves differently than in the past and improve
their methodology to gather the right data in an efficient way. Hospitals need
information that allows them to measure their performance in a wide range of
key areas: regulatory requirements, patient care, healthcare services, outcomes
operations, and finance. Rich Information Applications have a massive impact on
a Healthcare organizations ability to deliver services, create differentiation and
enhance market appeal.

2. Industry Solutions: Actuate for Healthcare
Too Much Data, Too Little • Streamlining financial, operational and customer
interaction processes with up-to-the-moment
Time information to slash costs and improve patient
Healthcare data is getting more difficult to manage satisfaction
– with more regulations, complex reimbursement • Delivering regular and on-demand content to all
processes and fewer staff. Although patient care users from a single unified platform so they can make
continues to be top of mind, utilization management; the right decisions at the right time
physician and employee satisfaction also need to • Lowering the total cost of ownership with open-
be measured accurately. An explosion of data has source technology, zero-training environments,
accompanied these factors on a daily, weekly, and lowest setup costs and fastest time to market
monthly basis. • Providing physicians, nurses and other staff with the
richest, most personalized user experience possible
• Detailed financial data spits out from billing and cost
tracking systems
• Average census, admissions, discharges, and length of
Enhanced Healthcare
stay information is generated Visualization
• Human Resources tracks turnover rates, vacancies,
BIRT displays powerful, visually engaging dashboards
accident rates, and employee satisfaction
and scorecards to track healthcare Key Performance
• Managers monitor accreditation, certification, outside
Indicators (KPIs) such as operational efficiencies,
performance benchmarks, and patient satisfaction
billing and claims information, and physician
levels
performance to convey this information to hospital
• The result is data overload
administrators in an easily consumable format. BIRT
dashboards display data about current and past
BIRT-based Rich performance and show what needs to be improved
Information Applications either immediately or in the future. Users can drill
Enable Healthcare through into BIRT reports for root-cause and what-if
analysis.
Providers to Manage and
Maintain Data Interactive Actionable
Actuate Healthcare solutions are built on BIRT and Content
BIRT Performance scorecard to deliver a cost-effective
Actuate healthcare solutions support Web 2.0
powerful solution that can be used by hospitals,
technologies such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and
medical facilities and healthcare professionals.
AJAX to provide consumers interactive, personalized
BIRT is an acronym for Business Intelligence and content.
Reporting Tools, a collaborative reporting system
Users can view or create dashboards from templates,
incorporating cutting-edge technology that allows
read commentary down to the measure level and
developers, report writers and end users to create
view trending information over time and location.
and/or use applications rich in interactivity, depth,
Enabling interactive content allows stakeholders
span and complexity.
to evaluate the results of services provided and the
For healthcare, BIRT tools offer options for creating overall effectiveness of processes. With the right
interactive dashboards, billing and claims scorecards, view of KPIs, areas for concern can be identified
physician’s dashboards, strategy maps and interactive immediately and a hospital’s performance and
reports which enable the management and outcomes can be managed effectively.
improvement of performance. Actuate healthcare
solutions empower hospitals and medical staff by:
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Multiple Presentation Comprehensive Data
Formats Access
End users can access regular and on-demand content An effective healthcare information system
in a variety of presentation styles including brochure- must access and integrate real-time data such as
quality documents, performance scorecards, briefing efficiencies and utilization; patient and physician
books, Excel® files, dashboards and simple data- information and employee satisfaction. This
driven web pages. With limitless data presentation information exists in multiple systems. As new
formats and integration possibilities from a single mandates are implemented healthcare providers
platform, Actuate’s Rich Information Application- must expand their use for larger user populations.
ready platform leads to 100% user adoption across Dependability and high perfor¬mance become
the enterprise. crucial business requirements at this stage.
BIRT provides comprehensive data access across
multiple disparate systems and sources that can be
accessed directly or through a metadata layer via its
Information Objects metadata and EII technology.
Actuate iServer delivers high performance to any size
community of employees, customers and partners
using information applications.
Performance Management
for Healthcare
BIRT Performance Scorecard is the industry leading
Briefing Book sections can be selected manually, and most fully featured performance system with
or can be filtered to display items based on various built-in flexibility, scalability and reliability for
selection criteria such as: performance, criticality, enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, to departmental
location, or ownership. or operational scorecards. Actuate’s healthcare
solutions offer over 500 pre-defined healthcare
metrics including financial, operational, resources
and utilization, employee and patient metrics to help
your get started. Scorecard will help:
• Ensure that all areas of an organization are properly
aligned
• The strategy is effectively communicated and acted
upon through effective tracking of key performance
indicators
• Support any framework including: Balanced
Scorecard, TJC Accreditation and Malcolm Baldrige
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Conclusion
The need for performance management for
healthcare organizations is clear. The increasing
regulatory guidelines detailing new critical areas
of performance, the demand for performance
improvements in clinical outcomes, and increased
reporting demands have all contributed to this
need for a practical and useful system. The key areas
of patient care, healthcare services, operations,
outcomes, and finance can be measured with Actuate
Strategy maps that show graphical representations of applications built using Actuate BIRT.
Performance Management initiatives, measures and For a complete list of Healthcare customers Actuate
the relationships between them
supports please visit:
http://www.actuate.com/customers/industry/
healthcare-providers/
Why Actuate for
Healthcare? Try BIRT For Free: The Open
• Brochure-quality reporting, interactive web Marketplace
reporting, spreadsheet reporting and an integrated The BIRT Exchange Marketplace is a showcase for
performance management solution, built over both applications and services and made available
an open, robust and rich information application to the BIRT community to foster an open and
infrastructure vibrant business environment focused on BIRT. Any
• Support for multiple output formats such as print, developer or company can buy, sell and share apps,
PDF, Microsoft Word©, Excel and interactive Web solutions and components for BIRT and BIRT-related
dashboards products at the Open Marketplace.
• Zero training skill-specific report authoring
environments for every user BIRT Marketplace:
• Web 2.0-ready development platform with http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/marketplace/hub/
programmablity, reusable components, advanced
scalability and multi-project support BIRT Exchange:
• Open source BIRT-based technology that integrates http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/home/
into the existing product line
• Expanding developer base and community support
from the Eclipse foundation and BIRT community
• Proven solution in the healthcare industry with
unmatched time to value
• Optional metadata that supports caching to protect
source systems
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