The overall approach can literally be described by the name of the business itself. An operational data-driven view of healthcare organizations is used to provide a new perspective or vantage point to gain realized advantages in cost and quality management for a more sustainable organizational impact than traditional approaches. Core operations management principles are used to instill or enhance an organizational culture of continuous improvement and accountability.

The key to realizing true organizational impact with actual improvements in cost and quality management is in operationalizing opportunities found through data analysis into the day-to-day management of a department and function within an organization.

The DataVantage Analytics view toward operationalizing opportunities is to use a different perspective than the traditional provision of operational data.

Organizations have long provided fiscal year, quarterly, and monthly reporting against budget based on financial reporting standards and principles. However, this is contrary to the natural way in which operations managers think and make decisions. Managers operate and make decisions weekly and daily within the week, NOT monthly. Data and reporting tools need to match the way managers think and operate.

This is the foundational principle of the DataVantage Analytics approach