SEATTLE - (Business Wire) Seattle Children’s Hospital has selected DatStat, the industry leader in research management systems and enterprise feedback management (EFM), as its platform to provide hospital staff members with tools that improve enterprise research and solicit feedback from patients, patient family members and employees. Specifically, DatStat will provide researchers at Children’s with its Research Management System (RMS) Framework, a comprehensive software solution for easily developing case and study management systems for researchers. The DatStat RMS combined with Illume, the industry leading EFM suite of products will be the foundation for Seattle Children’s Pediatric Quality of Life initiative, a wide-ranging program to track and improve the quality of patient care. Seattle Children’s goal is to better enable hospital staff to focus on patient based outcomes while improving hospital operations through improved enterprise feedback management. The Quality of Life initiative will improve the speed and quality of data that is available from multiple departments across the organization, allow them to perform quality checks, and make real time changes that enhance care of the patient.
“Currently, our enterprise feedback management and research systems are either simplistic tools that won’t scale effectively or manual research processes which are very inefficient and don’t readily support initiatives at the enterprise level. Implementing DatStat enables us to approach our feedback and research programs at the organizational level. We will be able to easily implement and manage our enterprise quality programs such as the Quality of Life initiative, health sciences projects in psychology and psychiatry, clinical trials management, human resources and marketing communications, streamlining cost and improving efficiency. More importantly, it will enable us to focus on the quality of the care we provide to our patients at every level of our organization,” said Wes Wright, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Children’s. “DatStat’s approach to enterprise research management will allow staff members from all departments to gather the information they need from both internal and external sources more quickly and in real time, better manage our research projects and improve the quality of the patient care and research we perform. We’re excited to begin this initiative.”
As part of their overall Continuous Performance Improvement program, Children’s staff will gather data on admission, discharge and two weeks post their hospital stay to effectively gauge the quality of care and to measure the impact of the patient’s health on the family. Improvement requires a timely and complete picture of the patients’ experiences through their entire stay in the hospital and as well as feedback from their time away from the hospital to efficiently measure treatment and recovery. DatStat will serve as the foundation for gathering this type of information, providing administrators, researchers and clinicians with a much-needed way to manage complex research projects and track what patients are experiencing and when and how to communicate with patients and research participants. As a result, staff members can make more informed decisions about patient, personnel and facility needs.
“Children’s will use DatStat to create a centralized research management system to coordinate the research studies within the hospital and research institute and to provide the research tools for our performance improvement programs. With DatStat, Children’s will be able to quickly launch and measure multi-modal programs that otherwise would have taken months to set up across a wide range of research areas,” said Dr. Dimitri Christakis, Director of Child Health Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
“Through its innovative research institute and dedication to high-quality operations, Children’s is playing a critical role ensuring the well-being and quality of care for children throughout the region,” said David Proestos, Chief Operating Officer at DatStat. “DatStat will enable Children’s to make use of information from everyone associated with patient care and hospital operations to manage complex research initiatives in ways that have never before been possible.”
DatStat addresses a common and critical challenge of healthcare providers by providing ways to gather and manage vast amounts of clinical, employee, administrative and research data that flow between departments and across the organization. DatStat products tailor that information for use by researchers, physicians, analysts, laboratory technicians, nurses and administrators to streamline relevance.
DatStat is in use at other renowned U.S. healthcare institutions including Massachusetts General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, The University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, The University of Washington School of Medicine, The University of California at San Francisco Medical Center and The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs.
About Seattle Children’s Hospital
Consistently ranked as one of the best children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical referral center for the largest landmass of any children’s hospital in the country (Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho). For more than 100 years, Children’s has been delivering superior patient care and advancing new treatments through pediatric research. Children’s serves as the primary teaching, clinical and research site for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The hospital works in partnership with Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation. Together they are Seattle Children’s, known for setting new standards in superior patient care for more than 100 years. For more information visit www.seattlechildrens.org.
About DatStat
DatStat is committed to improving enterprise and health sciences research through software innovation. Over the past 10 years DatStat has focused its efforts on streamlining and efficiently managing the collection of information throughout an enterprise, with a focus on addressing the challenges of health providers, health and social services organizations, universities, Global 2000 companies, market research companies, and life sciences organizations worldwide. DatStat closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of researchers and continues to develop its industry leading enterprise feedback management and research management solutions, such as Illume and the RMS Framework. Together, DatStat and its customers are working to advance a vision of unifying information and making it more readily available, ensuring the best quality of life for everyone.
For more information visit www.datstat.com.
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David Proestos, 206-526-9985
Email: dproestos@datstat.com
