HealthReport overview and evolutions in the hospital sector

Following numerous mergers undergone by the sector, Belgium still boasts just over 100 hospitals, all confronted with a need for better structured and more integrated information.

The cost-cutting policy led by the government over the last few years has nonetheless made balancing finances one of the biggest concerns for hospital management. Pressure on the national health insurance system is forcing the public authorities to place new budgetary restrictions on healthcare institutions.

Against this highly regulated background, hospitals also have to deal with challenges such as:

• tensions between new financial resources and new developments
• a shift in focus towards the patient, the disease and healthcare programmes
• the need for transparency, clear objectives and increased responsibility;
• more assertive patients, with a more critical approach in terms of the choice of establishments available to them
• an environment open to communication and performance measurement, supported by the latest computer technology.

In addition, all decision-making information is stored in isolated systems, preventing a global visibility of data.

Hospitals therefore find themselves being hampered in their various activities by a high level of handling complexity.

It is therefore in the interests of all departments and strategy managers to apply management methods and solutions if they want, firstly, to reduce the level of handling complexity and, secondly, to rethink the healthcare process, since these ensure:

• better allocation of the resources available
• enhanced productivity
• a more patient-focused policy.

The requirements of these healthcare institutions have clearly evolved. Forcea meets these requirements, by helping these hospitals to:

• implement a better structured and more integrated decision-making information strategy
• automate and facilitate the use and circulation of decision-making information
• thereby improve the service provided to patients and optimise use of resources.

Forcea’s global HealthReport solution gives hospitals the means to increase their competitive edge and guarantee better control of their decision-making information.