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At UHN, the equivalent of such an unexpected event patients in their homes.
impacting our operations might be a flu outbreak, One such example could be teams structured around
people experiencing complications after surgery, working with people with chronic conditions.
a surge in Emergency visits or performing a large Achieving a greater degree of operational efficiency
number of transplants in just a few days. These, and could open the path for such a group to manage
other unscheduled activities, impact operations.
Employing real-time
Managing in such environments will be increasingly data management, live
important going forward. Employing real-time data dashboards, business
management, live dashboards, business intelligence intelligence tools that
tools that enable us to optimize the flow of patients enable us to optimize
through our complex organization, is the world we the flow of patients
need to migrate to at UHN. By managing internal through our complex
operations in that way, with that degree of precision, organization, is the world
we will be able to increase our efficiencies. we need to migrate to at
UHN.
This move toward more clinical optimization is
intrinsically coupled with the IT Transformation we’ve patients with heart failure in our Local Health
launched over the past year under the direction of Integration Network by getting online to meet
Dr. David Jaffray, EVP Technology and Innovation. with them, monitor their weight, exercise, diet and
It requires investment in resources – our people medications. It’s an approach that could help us keep
and our data management – and also involves them healthy and well, but also let them stay at home,
more of a movement toward Population Health rather than come to our Emergency Departments.
Management. Michael Nader, recently appointed as
our EVP, Clinical Operations, brings experience with
operational analytics and business intelligence in
working collaboratively across very large, complex and
integrated health systems.

The evolution to more Population Health
Management will involve a focus on working with
people’s needs as out-patients. That will mean having
staff within our organization directly involved with
people outside in community agencies and with

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