Folks, most of you will have been keeping abreast of the the press coverage in Victoria around the falsification of hospital data, where hospitals have been creating ‘ghost wards’ and manipulating waiting lists, to secure performance bonuses.

Transparency remains a genuine challenge in Healthcare. The reason organisations have been able to get away with this is that reporting has been largely a manual process or a retrospective analysis of incomplete data.

More and more you will see investments in Clinical and Financial Dashboard as healthcare organisations have to comply with the increasing reporting and compliance requirements.  It is not just a Victoria issue, see the following press release from NSW Health today (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/2009/20090330_00.html)

For Microsoft Partners with BI/Reporting and SharePoint skills, now could not be a better time to engage in Health