London, UK, Apr 06, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence(BI) solutions, today announced the availability of the first module of its Integrated Health Intelligence (IHI) platform, a new Clinical Management Reporting and Analytics (CMRA) application. IHI CMRA provides healthcare organisations with an enterprise platform for clinical BI with pre-built performance management scorecards and dashboards; secure, role-based, self-service operational reporting; advanced ad hoc analytics; and enterprise search.

Administrators, clinicians, staff, and analysts in hospitals and healthcare providers are challenged to access and share data because they rely on disparate systems with clinical data spread across multiple applications, which at best only provide information from an individual episode and departmental perspective. Information Builders IHI CMRA provides an enterprise BI platform for delivering clinical information across departments, service lines, episodes, and patients to improve patient care and operational efficiency.

IHI CMRA includes clinical dashboards and scorecards, pre-defined reports, and visual analytics built on top of a robust data-model. The application addresses users' reporting and analysis requirements in four key areas: clinical performance management, analytics, operational reporting, and enterprise search. Specific capabilities in each area include:

Clinical performance management - Enables executives and administrators to quickly identify underperforming areas, spot trends, and justify changes in budget, staffing levels, and resource utilization through pre-built dashboards, scorecards, and performance metrics

Analytics - Enables data-driven, evidence-based decision support with easy-to-use guided ad hoc analytics and pre-built reports. End users with little or no training can examine data across many dimensions - by patient, service, department, provider, payer, and more. This provides end users with the ability to identify best practices, enable smarter service planning, find process improvements, develop ways to increase revenue, and more

Operational reporting - Extends information to the point-of-care providing self-service operational reporting for clinical staff and administrators. By extending reporting capabilities to everyone who impacts operations, individuals make better-informed decisions, resulting in higher productivity, cost-efficiency, and processes improvement

Enterprise search - Provides users with a Google-like interface that can search across structured and unstructured data for clinical research. Once records have been identified, the user may leverage intuitive tools to further analyse the results of the search to uncover relationships between symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, outcomes, or various demographic groups that they never knew existed

"The need for clinical personnel to quickly have access to accurate information is increasingly important as healthcare organizations strive to eliminate medical errors, improve clinical outcomes, and productivity," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO, Information Builders.

"BI and integration technologies are making it possible for everyone involved to make better decisions to improve the quality of patient care in our country."

About Information Builders

Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's most widely utilised business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders' iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Together, these products give Information Builders' customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs. Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners.

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