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200+ Users Engaged in Data in Less than 6 Months: The Ottawa Hospital

Overview

As one of Canada’s largest academic and research hospitals, The Ottawa Hospital serves 1.3 million people across eastern Ontario and neighboring provinces. With 1,335 beds and three hospital sites, the center employs more than 12,000 healthcare professionals and support staff — making it one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals.

Recognized as a world-class healthcare organization for providing acute, specialized, and complex care, The Ottawa Hospital is focused on delivering compassionate care while also expanding quality improvement, innovation projects, and research studies.

Through innovation and research, its doctors, researchers, and staff are defining new standards in patient care by discovering better ways to diagnose and treat patients while improving care.

This led to a partnership with MDClone — a platform that enabled self-service data exploration to fast-track research and innovation.

LOCATIONS
Ontario, Canada

HEADQUARTERS
Ottawa

SIZE
3 Sites
1,224 Beds
18 Research Facilities
60,247 Yearly Patient Admissions

SPECIALTIES
Cardiovascular Health
Nephrology
Surgery
Family Health
Emergency Services
Research & Academics

WEBSITE
ottawahospital.on.ca

Challenges and Goals

Despite the hospital’s dedication to data-driven healthcare transformation, challenges in accessing and analyzing data hindered progress. The complex regulatory landscape and limited internal resources created bottlenecks, delaying critical projects. 

“Although we have a centralized data request process and a team of analysts working with stakeholders, people were still frustrated. When they have an idea, they don’t want to wait. They have to wait because of our queue, because of calendars, because of ethics and privacy processes,” said Deanna Rothwell, Director of Analytics at The Ottawa Hospital. “For more complex inquiries, it can take many months to sort out requirements, establish ethics approvals and sharing agreements, and perform the actual work.”

In partnership with MDClone, The Ottawa Hospital aimed to overcome these challenges and expedite its research and innovation initiatives.

Solution

In February 2020, The Ottawa Hospital became the first center in Canada to partner with MDClone. The MDClone ADAMS Platform allowed healthcare professionals and researchers to identify and leverage potentially lifesaving data into actionable information that can transform patient care and outcomes.

Additionally, the platform can allow users to gather, utilize, and share insights while fully protecting patient privacy. MDClone’s technology creates a synthetic data set from health system data that is statistically comparable to the original but contains no actual patient information.

Results

Unlimited Exploration

MDClone empowered individuals with innovative ideas to explore data dynamically, accelerating the research process.

Speed to Information

The platform dramatically increased the speed of information retrieval within the hospital and across the global healthcare ecosystem.

Maximized Resources

Researchers gained self-sufficiency, freeing up central data and IT teams to tackle other projects.

Outcomes

Within six months of the system going live, The Ottawa Hospital used MDClone to identify quality improvement opportunities that would significantly impact the level of care for patients through reductions in length of stay and readmissions. These opportunities can improve patient care and also positively impact organizational costs.  

By early 2021, The Ottawa Hospital had more than 10 real-world scenarios in action, ranging from elective surgery outcomes, emergency hospitalization predictability, and pre-operative anemia.

Conclusion

MDClone’s technology has positioned The Ottawa Hospital at the forefront of innovation in delivering cutting-edge healthcare. The platform’s ability to visualize, analyze, and share clinical insights while safeguarding patient privacy is crucial for providing world-class care and better outcomes.

The Ottawa Hospital continues to analyze and evaluate results and look for additional real-world scenarios to launch, all with the goal of improved patient outcomes as well as cost savings for the hospital.

“The platform’s ability to help our physicians and researchers visualize, analyze, and share high-value clinical insights while protecting patient privacy is an important part of providing world-class care and better outcomes for our patients,” concluded Deanna Rothwell, Director of Analytics at The Ottawa Hospital.

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