The analytics ‘machine’ driving a Stanford hospital

Becker's Healthcare March 26, 2024
Giles Bruce

An analytics “machine” powers Stanford Children’s Health, preventing surgeries from getting canceled and patients from being diverted, a health system leader told Becker’s.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based organization launched the analytics platform a year and a half ago to help its patients have a smoother care journey.

“That sounds like looking at the hospital as a machine, but looking at it from the patient’s perspective, they want to be moving and flowing throughout the hospital in the right way,” Brendan Watkins, chief analytics officer for Stanford Children’s Health, told Becker’s. “So it’s better for their experience.”

Analytics is now “embedded in the culture” at Stanford Children’s, Mr. Watkins said. When nonanalytics colleagues come up to him saying they use the...

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