THE IT&S 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

A Look to the Future
As we consider next steps in our development, one principal
objective is to move HCA to higher levels of insight and capability,
pushing the analytics from types that are “descriptive” (where
the analysis informs and creates awareness) to those that are
“predictive” (where we can take that data and then identify likely
outcomes).
All of these efforts reflect a key HCA Strategic Initiative focused
on leveraging our industry-leading data assets and tools to
help HCA mature as an information-driven organization. Our
achievements this past year and in the years ahead will be pivotal
in boosting HCA’s data-driven power and presence in the always
evolving healthcare industry.
This will direct our guiding principles and analytics strategy for
next year and beyond:
• WE WILL MATURE IN THE
USE OF PREDICTIVE AND
PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS
AND VISUALIZATION.
• WE WILL DEVELOP OUR
PEOPLE—SIGNIFICANTLY
INCREASING THE SKILL
LEVELS OF OUR IT AND
BUSINESS ANALYSTS.
• WE WILL IMPROVE OUR
DATA QUALITY, ESPECIALLY
CLINICAL DATA, DEFINING
AND IMPLEMENTING
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE.
• WE WILL DISCOVER
THE “GOLD” IN OUR
UNSTRUCTURED DATA (SUCH
AS PHYSICIANS’ NOTES,
NURSES’ NOTES, AND
PATHOLOGY REPORTS).
• WE WILL BUILD THE
CAPABILITY TO DEVELOP AND
MAINTAIN SOPHISTICATED
PREDICTIVE MODELS.
• WE WILL BUILD THE
CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT THE
USE OF COMPLEX LOGIC AND
BUSINESS RULES.
THE BIG PICTURE: THE POWER OF ANALYTICS
It’s estimated that by making sense of complex healthcare data,
Big Data analytics can enable more than $300 billion in savings
per year in US healthcare alone.
• WE WILL SUPPORT SELF-
SERVICE DISCOVERY
WITHOUT CREATING IT
BOTTLENECKS.
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