HEALTH

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM), announced today that Trillium Health Centre, one of Canada's leading community hospitals, is standardizing on Cognos' industry-leading CPM solution as part of a long-term strategy to transform delivery of its health care services. Trillium yesterday announced a seven year initiative to develop an integrated community care services model that will enable the hospital to be more responsive to the needs of patients, providers, staff and the community. With the help of Cognos and other IT partners, the initiative -- called Transforming Healthcare into Integrated Networks of Knowledge (THINK) -- is aimed at simplifying information access and exchange among all stakeholders, facilitating health care innovation, and ultimately, improving services to Trillium patients and their families. Trillium will standardize its entire corporate performance management cycle on Cognos, effectively transforming the way the hospital plans and budgets health care programs, patient services and supplier requirements; measures and monitors health care delivery performance; and enables reporting and analysis both inside and outside the walls of Trillium. "THINK is all about getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time. The key is in harnessing the right technologies that can work together to help us build a seamless continuum of care that is patient-centric and completely integrated, putting Trillium at the very forefront of health care innovation," said Ken White, president and chief executive officer at Trillium Health Centre. "Cognos offers us an integrated business performance platform that will equip all of our stakeholders with the necessary patient and program information and analysis they need to make timely decisions that are in the best interests of our patients." "Performance management is a business imperative, particularly for mission-critical organizations like Trillium that provide critical health care services to such a large population base. Success results from transforming the vast amounts of disparate health and patient data into information assets, where health care providers, suppliers, and other important stakeholders can effectively collaborate and make critical, informed decisions," said Dave Laverty, senior vice president of global marketing at Cognos. "The partnership between Cognos and Trillium matches two industry leaders working together towards a common goal of delivering optimal health care service using the latest in IT. We applaud Trillium on their THINK initiative, and are very proud to play an important role in this pioneering endeavor." The Cognos CPM solution is comprised of Cognos Enterprise BI Series, the industry's most comprehensive business intelligence solution; Cognos Enterprise Planning and Consolidation Series, which include industry-leading solutions for planning, budgeting, modeling, forecasting and financial consolidation; and Cognos Metrics Manager, one of the most robust and flexible enterprise scorecarding solutions on the market.