Sunquest Releases Diagnostic Intelligence Business Analytics Solution

Sept. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- Sunquest Information Systems®, a leading provider of healthcare diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions, has released its Diagnostic Intelligence™ business intelligence solution. This innovative solution delivers actionable, real-time information displayed in easy-to-interpret dashboards, enabling customers to more effectively manage key clinical and operational performance indicators for their laboratory service lines.

“This innovative solution delivers information in an easily accessible manner, enabling real time performance management and providing enhanced value to laboratory leadership,” according to Richard Atkin, President and CEO of Sunquest. “Our customer research and feedback has clearly shown the need for this innovative technology.”

“The diagnostic market is changing. The marketplace and our customers have high standards and expectations to meet relative to recent legislation. The Sunquest Diagnostic Intelligence solution provides the capability to measure and report against key business metrics, enabling our customers to deliver mission critical laboratory services to their enterprise.”

Laboratories can better manage the financial, clinical, and operational performance of their business using Sunquest Diagnostic Intelligence. This information enables   laboratories to run smarter and more efficiently, and to better demonstrate the value the laboratory service line delivers to the enterprise. By providing  enhanced and real-time access to metrics, Sunquest Diagnostic Intelligence enables prompt decision making resulting in reduced costs, improved efficiency and staff productivity, and more accurate management of clinical processes, such as identifying and trending hospital acquired infection rates.  

“Diagnostic Intelligence plays an integral role in problem-solving as well as providing the ability to ascertain and assess the correlation of key performance indicators,” according to Allana Cummings, CIO of Northeast Georgia Health System. “This provides a means for practicing evidenced-based medicine and highlights best practices by ensuring that lab data is at the core of revealing opportunities for improved patient care.”

“The innovative, adaptive technology provides analytic capabilities that are scalable  to a single user or a larger enterprise,” according to Dr. J. Mark Tuthill, Division Head of Pathology Informatics at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI. “This technology will redefine the infrastructure, workflow implications, and implementation barriers in clinical operations, and truly transform the future practice of clinical pathology.”

Diagnostic Intelligence delivers greater drill-down and information analysis capabilities, enhancing decision-making capabilities for all stakeholders, including:
•   Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
•   Measuring lab result turnaround time (TAT) in real time
•   Proactively monitoring hospital acquired infection rates
•   Measuring  critical test volumes in real time
•   Measuring lab productivity, profitability, and value on a minute-by-minute basis
•   Monitoring the profitability of the service line
•   Enabling immediate and data-driven decisions to improve safety and workflow
Diagnostic Intelligence is powered by QlikView technology. The Sunquest solution will provide a quick, quantifiable, and positive return on investment within any facility.

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About Sunquest Information Systems
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. delivers market leading diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions designed and implemented to fulfill the business objectives of today’s healthcare leaders. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, the company has offices in: Raleigh, North Carolina; Norwich, United Kingdom; and Bangalore, India. Sunquest serves the global marketplace with reliable technology required for mission critical applications. These solutions provide the foundation to optimize the healthcare experience, deliver safe, effective, and timely patient care, expand community reach, and transform the delivery of healthcare with predictive and personalized medicine.

For more information, please visit www.sunquestinfo.com or phone +1 (800) 748-0692.

About QlikTech
QlikTech’s powerful, accessible business intelligence solution enables organizations to make better and faster decisions. Its QlikView product delivers enterprise-class analytics and search with the simplicity and ease of use of office productivity software. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered makes calculations in real-time enabling business professionals to gain insight through intuitive data exploration. Unlike traditional business intelligence products, QlikView can deliver value in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. It can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or on a laptop or mobile device—from a single user to large global enterprises. QlikTech  is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with offices around the world and a network of over 1,100 partners to serve more than 13,000 customers in over 100 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit www.qlikview.com.

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Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. delivers the market leading diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions designed and implemented to fulfill the business objectives of today’s healthcare leaders.