The user-friendly e-Scorecard offers something for everyone - from performance summary reports and graphs that will appeal to senior management, to more advanced tools that can be used by decision support analysts.
The e-Scorecard is a web-based, password protected, multi-dimensional application that for the first time allows hospitals that are participating in Hospital Reports to:
- View snapshots of a hospital's performance across all quadrants and sectors simultaneously
- Customize analyses and reports
- Select comparator hospitals
- Choose indicators to examine in greater detail
- Track performance over time
- Identify hospitals with potentially best practices
- View results using a variety of innovative graphics, including gauges
- Examine definitions, indicator formulae and cautionary notes
- Download reports to other applications and save, print and reformat
Also you can view their actual performance scores for each indicator, in comparison to minimum, maximum and average provincial scores. As well, colours depict a hospital's performance relative to the provincial average or other targets. Yellow means that the score meets the HRRC target threshold, green indicates above average performance and red indicates below average performance. Grey indicates that there is no assigned performance.
The e-Scorecard is a strategic tool that can help hospitals with local planning and priority-setting as well as monitoring the achievement of objectives.
Indicator values from many of our hospital reports are incorporated into the e-Scorecard application. We no longer release hospital specific indicator findings in a printed format. Instead, performance indicator findings are added to the e-Scorecard application giving hospitals a level of flexibility in exploring performance that was not possible in a printed format. We, however, continue to issue printed Executive Summaries of our findings.
The first Hospital Report to be released via the e-Scorecard was Hospital Report 2005: Rehabilitation.
There was tremendous excitement from hospitals and organisations that helped pilot the e-Scorecard. We hope that senior executives, board members, quality improvement directors, decision support analysts, and others, will find the e-Scorecard to be a useful tool to support strategic decision making.
Many people helped to create the e-Scorecard Tool. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.
We are very interested in hearing from users of the e-Scorecard. Please provide us with your feedback (email address: escorecard[at]uwaterloo[dot]ca).