Built-in analytic tools have been the hallmark of the Neonatal Information System™ since its inception in 1985. Because the NIS™ was designed in concert with neonatologists from across the United States and has an architecture designed and grounded in Operations Research; the NIS™ combines a unique blend of powerful data interrogation tools that can be used by those who may have little, if any, computer skills.
Virtually all of the data contained in the NIS™ can be used in any statistical report, logbook or interrogated though the built-in query system. This includes; single valued fields – such as birthweight – and multi-valued fields such as diagnoses. You can pose questions upon questions and layer upon layer of analyses.
Further – you can go beyond the strength of the NIS™ analytical capabilities if you wish by simply moving any of your data into other applications. The possibilities are endless – but here are some examples.
DATA MANAGEMENT – Automatically process data for a full-range of purposes, including the generation of user defined reports, real-time querying of data, creation of logbooks and statistical analyses.
QUALITY INDEXING – New! Create and control the quality parameters for your institution. The NIS™ has a built-in Quality Indexing feature to facilitate your monitoring and assessment of your quality management goals.
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT – Improve your quality reporting through user determined clinical trends and statistical reports generated for any set of variables over any period of time.
DATA AGGREGATION – Collect a vast array of clinical information from multiple NICUs – stored and aggregated anonymously – for benchmarking clinical conditions, treatments and outcomes of one NICU compared to the total population of all participating NICUs.
CLINICAL RESEARCH – Utilize data management support for clinical trials in an individual NICU or for studies involving robust data sets from the aggregation of multiple NICU data.
ELECTRONIC DATA TRANSFER – Electronic transfer of pre-selected demographic and clinical data from the NIS™ to national or regional databases.
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS – The NIS™ can function as a stand-alone clinical database management system or as an integrated part of the hospital Electronic Medical Record.
