Quanta - Overview

Health System Accountability

Governments are demanding accountability, transparency and responsiveness in the Health System and want standardized reporting in order to monitor healthcare organizations in a consistent manner. Quanta is a proven reporting tool that can be adapted to the requirements of different provincial health systems, giving Health System Administrators fast access to the data they need to make timely decisions.

The challenge

Health System Administrators have a tough challenge. Faced with health emergencies like the H1N1 virus, a SARS outbreak or salmonella poisoning they need timely access to accurate and complete data in order to make good decisions. Too often, provincial healthcare organizations oversee health districts that are operating autonomously and with incompatible reporting systems. Data collection and reporting can be prolonged and labour intensive, meaning a system-wide perspective is hard to come by, with potentially serious repercussions.

Governments don’t want to burden the system with the cost of new standardized IT systems but they do need standardized reporting in order to assess the scope of health emergencies and to monitor and compare healthcare organizations in a consistent manner.

The solution

Quanta is a multi-enterprise, accountability-reporting, software tool that gives Health System Administrators a system-wide perspective on their operations. It offers the power of a database and the ease of a spreadsheet in assessing and analysing data.

Quanta presents Health System Administrators with standardized reports from multiple healthcare sources with minimal effort by the healthcare sources. It streamlines the gathering of complex information between healthcare organizations and their funders and helps deliver accountability.

Quanta does not interfere with the IT systems running within the healthcare organizations; it sits alongside those systems acting as a reporting tool to the Health System Administrators.

The outcomes

Quanta delivers many positive outcomes.

Standardized reporting

• Health System Administrators, charged with Accountability, can receive information in a consistent form, saving processing time and effort in consolidating and interpreting data.

Complete reporting

• With a fully installed Quanta solution, Health System Administrators can be confident that they are looking at a complete overview of the system.

Accurate reporting

• The software collects and collates data in a way that ensures accuracy and consistent presentation

Timely collection of data

• Health System Administrators can get quick access to area-wide information whether it’s relating to a new virus outbreak or assessing the bilingual capabilities of nursing staff.

Minimal programming risk

• Quanta is a proven product that is already helping Health System Administrators drive their mandate for Accountability. It does this with little impact on existing IT infrastructures and no additional programming load or risk. It builds on the benefits of familiar, Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheets.

Adaptive solution for a healthcare system under transformation

• All aspects of Canadian healthcare are under transformation and Quanta is a proven, flexible software application that can adapt to changing environments.