Interregional clinical dashboard

Enhanced functionality and national coverage 

So far, the Clinical dashboard has only been used in Health South-East RHF (HSØ), where it has been developed, published, and managed. However, from 1st July this year, the Clinical dashboard will be transferred to the Centre for Clinical Documentation and Evaluation (SKDE). This is because SKDE is a national actor and has an established role in specialist healthcare by contributing to knowledge about quality and equitable healthcare services through analyses of health registry data.

Now that SKDE is taking over the operational responsibility for the dashboard, an interregional version will be published that covers the specialist healthcare service across Norway. This means that leaders in all RHFs and healthcare enterprises can find relevant management data in the tool and can compare their own clinical practice with others.

Increased focus on clinical activities 

The Clinical dashboard was developed based on findings from the group audit conducted by Health South-East in a mapping exercise in 2023. It was revealed that many leaders in the healthcare enterprises experienced a stronger focus on finance and HR than on patient services and the quality of patient treatment. The audit therefore recommended that the boards of the healthcare enterprises pay greater attention to clinical activities.

— To address this, the clinical dashboard was launched as a management tool with data from the Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR), the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), and the Cancer Registry. The aim has been to identify unwanted variation in quality, patient safety, and resource use, so that the board and enterprise management could monitor the achievement of the "ensure" responsibility in the regional health enterprises, explains project director at HSØ RHF, Ole Tjomsland. Together with his colleague, senior analyst Christian Thoresen, he has developed and managed the content of the dashboard.

Increased insight for leaders 

The dashboard has already proven useful in Health South-East, where it is part of an annual cycle for monitoring the healthcare enterprises in the region. It is actively used in quarterly reviews of deviations, measures, and goal achievement, providing the boards with a better basis for following up their “ensure responsibility".

— Shortly after the dashboard was launched for the healthcare enterprises in HSØ, the interregional professional director meeting expressed a desire for the dashboard to be made available with data for all RHFs and recommended that the responsibility for publication and operation be transferred to SKDE, Tjomsland recounts.