title: Five key pillars of an analytics center of excellence, which are required to manage populations and transform organizations into the next era of health care.
abstract: Acute care facilities are experiencing fiscal challenges as noted by decreasing admissions and lower reimbursement creating an unsustainable fiscal environment as we move into the next era of health care. This situation necessitates a strategy to move away from acting solely on hunches and instinct to using analytics to become a truly data-driven organization that identifies opportunities within patient populations to improve the quality and efficiency of care across the continuum. A brief overview of knowledge management philosophies will be provided and how it is used to enable organizations to leverage data, information, and knowledge for operational transformation leading to improved outcomes. This article outlines the 5 key pillars of an Analytics Center of Excellence; governance, organizational structure, people, process, and technology, that are foundational to the development of this strategy. While culture is the most important factor to achieve organizational transformation and improved care delivery, it is the 5 pillars of the ACoE that will enable the culture shift necessary to become a truly data-driven organization and thus achieve transformation into the next era of health care.
authors.affiliation: Enterprise Intelligence-Analytics and Transformation and Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood, Colorado.
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reichert
authors.forename: Gerry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Furlong
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*