Due to Canada’s performance-based funding system, like many hospitals, Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is under increased financial pressure. The payment model rewards physicians, hospitals, and medical groups for meeting quality and efficiency measures while penalizing poor outcomes, medical errors, and runaway costs. Complying with these requirements involves analyzing hospital processes, reviewing patient outcomes, identifying areas for improvement, and predicting patient trends. The hospital needs to be able to easily access, combine, and analyze a broad array of data to determine how much funding it will receive.

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