Cognos a provider in business intelligence and performance management solutions recently announced that Intermountain Healthcare – a nationally-recognized, nonprofit healthcare network of hospitals, clinics, health insurance plans and physicians across Utah – has selected Cognos as its business intelligence (BI) standard.

By leveraging Cognos, Intermountain will provide clinical and business executives with greater and more simplified access to critical healthcare management information, enabling them to easily identify best practices in services delivery; monitor, measure and report on outcomes against key performance indicators; identify areas for improvement; and ultimately make informed decisions for improving patient health and preventive care.

“Without clinical and business intelligence, healthcare organizations are simply automating their paper processes without actually improving clinical, cost and satisfaction outcomes,” said Marc Probst, Chief Information Officer at Intermountain. “Cognos offers us a critical Outcomes Analysis infrastructure, enabling Intermountain to enhance its ability to provide comprehensive BI capabilities to expedite data driven quality improvement, cost reduction, patient satisfaction and overall safety improvements. Cognos will help us increase our capacity to more efficiently realize clinical and administrative process improvements, thereby providing significant value to our clinicians, patients and plan members.”

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