
The Analytics Emergency: Rapid Deployment of Real-Time Analytics, Enabled Incident Command
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare to rely on data and analytics for decision making and illustrated the criticality of accurate, real-time data and analytics. Despite having ample patient data available for direct patient care, Albany Med’s analytics platform had a two-day lag for much of the data. The organization quickly recognized that rapid access to COVID-19 analytics was essential and that it was vital for leaders to have real-time access to data for decision making during the COVID-19 crisis.
Featured Outcomes
- In less than 16 hours, deployed integrated, real-time dashboards for monitoring all COVID-19 activity, including patient testing and activity, care requirements, and supply utilization.
- 99.8 percent relative reduction in processing time, providing incident command the critical data required to drive informed decision making.
- Thousands of patients tested for COVID-19.
- Integrated workforce and COVID-19 data for more than 13,000 employees, volunteers, and contractors.