Zura Labs enables a healthcare analytics provider to improve patient care and profit margin

Transforming information into better patient care and profits

A cardiac healthcare analytics provider that helps hospitals improve patient care and profit margins wanted to transform information into insight and knowledge. Its primary market is the cardiac service line, hospitals and life sciences.

Alongside the economic data drivers collected from hospitals and life sciences companies, the client relies on the standardized databases of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

Divergent and duplicated data meant there was no single source of truth, resulting in inaccurate, incomplete member profiles with little insight into a patient’s well-being journey.

What we found

• The sheer amount of data, diverse sources and varied formats made analysis impossible.
• Integrating hospital information with the STS and ACC benchmark data was challenging.
• Poor source data quality and no standardization across sources made meaningful insight unwieldy.

Zura Labs solution

We integrated STS and ACC data with the information from the hospitals the client serves to build a Business Intelligence solution that:

• Enables analysis of cardiac procedures across hospitals.
• Surfaces trending complications and mortality by surgical procedure, drilling down from procedure to patient level.
• Decodes referenced data in Excel templates into shareable analytics reports.
• Helps hospitals and doctors analyse post-operative complications.
• Streamlines patient codes and monitors length of stay.
• Tracks doctor performance, and referral performance for rewards.
• Discovers anomalies and outliers.
• Analyses procedure cost driven by patients’ pre-existing risk factors.
• Provides customized dashboards for hospital management and surgeons.

Key benefits

We helped the client build a hosted analytics and BI solution, customizable to each hospital’s needs, to view operations across multiple parameters and periods, and share information across the team with high-level security.

The solution lets the client demonstrate the power of analytics by directly helping hospitals increase profitability through better patient care and lower surgery costs.