A new report on hospitals’ progression up the model found the presence of a chief analytics officer to be strongly positively correlated with a hospital’s stage on the model.
HIMSS Analytics assessed 22 provider organizations to evaluate their competencies across the five facets of the DELTA model: the breadth, integration and quality of data; the organization’s enterprise approach to managing analytics; leaders’ passion and commitment to analytics; data analytics targets; and the skills of the analysts.
The report found organizations with a CAO had mostly reached the fourth stage, “Analytical Company,” while organizations without a CAO were mostly at the third stage, “Analytical Aspirations.”
“Without direct evidence of causation, the results clearly indicate that those hospitals which recognize the strategic value of analytics are more effectively leveraging data and analytics to better to drive outcomes and performance,” according to the report.
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