News | February 28, 2013

Saint Luke's Health System Selects Dimensional Insight's Business Intelligence & Analytics

Ten-hospital system standardizes on The Diver Solution to improve performance measurement

Dimensional Insight, a developer of business intelligence (BI) software, announced today that Saint Luke’s Health System, a Kansas City-based system of 10 hospitals and related health care services, has selected the company’s Diver Solution for reporting and analytics. Diver will enable Saint Luke’s to uniformly and consistently present information aggregated from technology systems across its hospitals, including key utilization, quality and productivity performance indicators.

Saint Luke’s is a Kansas City faith-based, not-for-profit health system with a rich a history of innovation. The health system regularly earns national recognition for excellence in health care and is ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best” hospitals for heart, heart surgery, urology and gynecology. In addition, Thomson Reuters recognizes Saint Luke’s as a Top 100 hospital nationwide.

Decision-makers at Saint Luke’s must frequently analyze the details behind important trends and measurements. To do so, they need the most up-to-date information available at their fingertips. Diver will allow Saint Luke’s to pull data from EHR, financial, operational and ancillary systems on a timely basis for each hospital and the organization as a whole.  Executives and clinicians will have immediate access to dashboards and scorecards, enabling them to make informed decisions critical to the efficient operation of the health system and to patient care improvements.

“Dimensional Insight came highly regarded from colleagues and peers at other healthcare institutions, as demonstrated by its ‘Best in KLAS’ rating for four years running,” said Deborah Gash, VP & Chief Information Officer at Saint Luke’s Health System. “We are confident that Diver will enable us to align performance measurement across the organization to help us achieve our strategic objectives.”

For more information on how Diver helps healthcare organizations, please visit Dimensional Insight at booth #2519 at HIMSS13 or go to https://www.dimins.com/healthcare.

About Dimensional Insight
Dimensional Insight is a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. The company offers a comprehensive set of BI capabilities ranging from data integration and modeling to sophisticated reporting, analytics, information portals and dashboards. Founded in 1989, Dimensional Insight has thousands of customer organizations worldwide. Dimensional Insight’s Diver Solution consistently ranks as a top performing business intelligence platform in customer satisfaction in its core market segments including healthcare, manufacturing and distribution industries. The Diver Solution has earned the prestigious “Best in KLAS” award for healthcare Business Intelligence/Reporting for the past four years in a row.  For more information, visit www.dimins.com.

About Saint Luke’s Health System
Saint Luke’s Health System consists of 10 area hospitals and many primary care practices, and provides a range of inpatient, outpatient, and home care services. Founded as a faith-based, not-for-profit organization, our mission includes a commitment to the highest levels of excellence in health care and the advancement of medical research and education. The health system is an aligned organization in which the physicians and hospitals assume responsibility for enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of people in the metropolitan Kansas City area and the surrounding region.

Source: Dimensional Insight