Visual planning of strategic hospital portfolios
The switch to a diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based health care payment system in Switzerland generated a greater need for hospitals to reevaluate the profitability of their service portfolio under this new system. Consultants developed a model to analyse portfolios and create future scenarios.
To help with decisionmaking and communicate the results of this modeling, we developed an interactive visualization tool that allows dynamic interactions with this complex information in live strategy meetings.

Publications
D. Brodbeck, M. Degen, A. Walter, S. Reichlin, Ch. Napierala. Strategic Planning of Hospital Service Portfolios – The DRGee Viewer. Proceedings of HEALTHINF 2015, 8th International Conference on Health Informatics, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
Project details
- Type
- Research project
- Research areas
- Clinical information systems and Medical decision support systems
- University
- FHNW School of Life Sciences / Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
