New deliverable available: T0 base line measurement of the KPIs

What is the impact of big data technologies on transforming healthcare and how can we maximize the impact? Providing answers to these questions is at the core of work package 5 that is led by the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.

One of the essential objectives of this work package is to outline the achievements of the pilots’ big data interventions. What is crucial here is that big data technologies can have multiple effects:

• Big data technologies may affect the perceptions and experience of patients with health care delivery and the results thereof.
• They can alter activities performed for care delivery.
• Big data technologies can change the effects of care on patients’ health status.
• They can have monetary implications due to process and outcome changes.

These multi-dimensionality has to be reflected in any impact assessment and require continuous performance monitoring. Consequently, our impact assessment will rely on multiple key performance indicators (KPIs) tailored to each individual pilot’s patient cohort, intervention, and aim. KPIs will be measured multiple times during the project. This allows us to assess the pilot’s situation before the novel big data intervention is implemented and subsequent measurements will take place during and after the roll-out for comparison. The first measurement moment can therefore be understood as the base line that sets the stage for the impact assessment.

With the BigMedilytics project up and running for a few months, we are delighted to announce that base line measurements have been executed and that the results are now publically available. More information on the “T0 base line measurement of the KPIs” can be found in deliverable 5.1.