This free guide crafted by the Health Care Business Intelligence team at Apparatus shows you can dashboards can be used to: - Reduce the number of meetings - Decrease the amount of time spent compiling reports - Get more out of the meetings you do have - Free time to focus on patient care - Predict overnight patient trends

1. Top 5 Ways
Dashboards Can
Change Your Day
[And some of the ways you love to look at data]

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#1 Reduce the number of conversations before your first cup of coffee
Tired of running around like a chicken with its head cut off first thing in the morning? Dashboards completely eliminate the need to frantically search for members of your staff to catch up on yesterday’s events. From viewing admissions and discharges, surgical availability and wait times to units census, all of the information that you need is right at your fingertips with dashboards - on any device as you move throughout your day. Catch up on the state of every hospital, department, physician and patient. No matter what your role is, be it a nurse or an executive, dashboards will transform how you spend the first few hours of your day.
Your time is valuable. Get more of it.

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#2 Cut down on clicks before your first meeting
Pulling several reports and compiling them each day is a tedious job no one actually wants. Why are you still doing it? Thanks to dashboards, you don’t have to. Free yourself and your employees from exporting from spreadsheets or the task of running reports and compiling them into a single report. Dashboards combine information from several subject areas and locations automating the process.
Prepare for your day in a better way; you have two options: Store your dashboards on a single webpage or get them right to your inbox (dependent on size). Ideally, a single webpage is best as you can drill into the problem areas. You win either way with dashboards. Start assessing the hospital as soon as you arrive. Physicians plan their rounds. Nurse managers immediately address scheduling. The CFO gets an idea of the payer mix.
The end has come for locating reports to assess the hospital. Feel free to let out a “yippee!”

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[Your go-to dashboard to kick off your day]
TOP 10 MSDRG ED VOLUME BY DAY
PAYOR MIX ED TRANSFERS OUT
ANTHEM
CIGNA
COMMERCIAL
HOSPITAL MEDS ELIGIBILITY
MEDICAID
MEDICAID MANAGED CARE
MEDICARE
MEDICARE MANAGED CARE
PROHEALTH
UNITED HEALTHCARE
CESAREAN SECTION
DEPRESSIVE NEUROSES
ESOPHAGITIS
REATTACHMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY
NEONATE
NEONATE W NEWB DIAG
NORMAL NEWBORN
PSYCHOSES
SEPTICEMIA
VAGINAL
*Dashboards used are samples for reference only.

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#3 Start conducting productive meetings that enrich your business
Feel like you spend too much of your day sitting in meetings listening to update after update? It’s time to make those meetings a thing of the past. Allow dashboards to communicate updates and save meetings for more important discussions like shaping the future of your hospital. Status meetings are no longer necessary thanks to dashboards. With dashboards, data is brought to the surface letting individuals and groups access their performance on demand.

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[All the information you need right at your fingertips]
EFFICIENCY OF HOSPITAL ROOMS EFFICIENCY OF HOSPITAL ROOMS
*Dashboards used are samples for reference only.

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#4 Get back to your element – patient care
Straining your eyes, staring at a computer screen or running around the hospital tracking people down isn’t a valuable use of your time or energy. Spend more of your day at the bedside providing the quality care that makes up the core of your hospital. Dashboards permit you to spend less time in front of the computer screen and tracking down C-levels. This means more time in the actual hospital setting with patients and staff, more time seeing, with your own eyes, what the pain points are and more time with the nurses. Dashboards cut out the search for people and information.

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[An appealing view of the state of your hospital]
PATIENT WAIT TIMES PROFIT BY MONTH AND DAY
ED VISITS BY SEVERITY LEVEL ADMITTED PATIENTS FOR 6/1/2013 TO 5/31/2014
*Dashboards used are samples for reference only.

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#5 End your day knowing the exact state
of your organization
Find it difficult to leave work because you’re concerned about what will happen while you
are out? Dashboards to the rescue. View what is trending prior to heading out of the
office. Predicting the storm ahead will allow you to plan effectively overnight. Imagine when
you leave, you can actually leave work behind. Of course, something may come up overnight.
Not to fear. With dashboards, you can quickly assess the situation from your tablet or mobile
device and put a plan of action into place. Those worry lines will soon disappear.
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10. Get to Know the BI Team
The team is a multidisciplinary group of experts with extensive background serving health care clients. Numerous certifications including Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert in Business Intelligence, Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and Epic along with a Microsoft SQL Master on staff demonstrate their commitment to the latest technology and meeting client’s needs. The Apparatus BI experts have helped bring dreams to life for some of the country’s largest hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, long term care providers, physician groups and medical equipment manufacturers. Quality solutions implemented by our BI team encompass the needs of the modern healthcare organization such as complex clinical workflows, unique clinical end user needs and federal and state regulations.
Our diverse team has a wide array of understanding in various health care settings from working as business and data analysts and clinical informatics consultants in multi-hospital organizations to several years of firsthand bedside experience as a Registered Nurse. Team members draw on their experience with analytic tools like Microsoft BI Stack, SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Reports and Tableau to bring you the insights you need.
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Let dashboards change your day
Isn’t it about time you take control of your day? By utilizing dashboards, you can turn the dream of creating more time, accessing better information and placing more focus on patient care. If you are unsure how to get started, let our team help.

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