In today’s data-driven healthcare landscape, analyzing and acting on insights from various patient and operational data sources is essential for improving care delivery and organizational efficiency. By seamlessly integrating with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, Cogito enables users to generate real-time reports, monitor key performance metrics, and conduct advanced data analyses.
In this article, we’ll explore how Epic Cogito helps healthcare providers harness the full potential of their data to drive informed decision-making and optimize operations within a single, unified platform.
What is Epic Cogito?
Epic Cogito is a comprehensive suite of analytics and business intelligence tools designed to empower healthcare organizations with actionable insights to improve patient care and clinical coordination. By leveraging built-in integrations with Epic’s EHR system, Cogito enables healthcare organizations to analyze vast amounts of clinical, financial, and operational data to generate actionable insights.
The Cogito analytics landscape supports the generation, management, and optimization of real-time data reports to improve decision-making for critical roles and workflows and assess the effectiveness of core healthcare services. It empowers healthcare teams to monitor performance metrics, create real-time reports, and conduct advanced data analyses to streamline workflows, optimize organizational efficiency, and improve care across key patient populations.
Here’s a quick look at a few key capabilities of the Epic Cogito environment:
- Data warehouse and analytics features to collect, manage, and store large data volumes
- Artificial intelligence tools to improve decision-making and policy-making workflows
- Configurable dashboards and flexible reporting tools to analyze operational performance and identify improvements for key focus areas
- Integrated data warehouse to combine Epic data with external data and create a standardized dimensional model for accurate and efficient reporting
Key Components
Radar
Epic Radar is a business intelligence tool within the Cogito landscape that empowers users to customize dashboards to meet critical reporting needs, share reports with relevant stakeholders, and facilitate effective data management. Here are a few key content areas included in the Radar dashboard:
- Performance metrics
- Data visualizations
- Links to RWB reports
- Links to Hyperspace activities
- Links to resources in the Reporting Workbench
- Links to external data, like Tableau dashboards or Crystal reports
Reporting Workbench
The Epic Reporting Workbench is an integral part of the Cogito analytics module, enabling users to build, customize, display, modify, and share reports that visualize data associated with critical workflows and organizational objectives.
SlicerDicer
SlicerDicer is a self-service reporting tool within the Cogito environment that empowers users to access and analyze critical data, examine trends, and visualize key metrics to improve patient care and streamline organizational workflows.
Key Data Warehouses
Caboodle
Caboodle is an enterprise data warehouse solution that works with the Cogito module to support large-scale data analysis, facilitate comprehensive reporting and performance tracking, and integrate Epic and non-Epic data in a single repository.
Clarity
Clarity is a relational database and reporting tool that works alongside Epic Cogito to create large-scale, detailed, and historical reports for in-depth analysis, support strategic decision-making, and aggregate critical data sources into pre-built data models for tailored population health management.
Chronicles
Chronicles is a non-relational hierarchical database management system that works with the Cogito module to manage and store critical operational data, facilitate real-time transactional workflows, accelerate processing speed for high data volumes, and ensure data flows smoothly between systems.
How Can We Help?
Whether you need help assessing your current Epic system setup to identify key improvement areas, facilitating effective integration between enterprise systems, or leading future optimization initiatives across key business units, Surety Systems is here to help.
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