1. Business Analytics
Novo Nordisk Using IBM Business Analytics solutions to automate the collection and collation of medical survey data
The need:
Diabetes has become one of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges: without early detection, the disease can severely impact patients’ lives and healthcare systems’ budgets. Novo Nordisk has developed a screening programme that identifies people with diabetes and people at risk of developing it in future. The aim is to use the screening data to create national risk scores for diabetes.
The solution:
Novo Nordisk and healthcare professionals worked at the screening sites in two countries, using tablet PCs running IBM® SPSS® Data Collection to input data from questionnaires and medical tests directly into a central database.
“IBM SPSS Data Collection has helped us streamline our data collection process and significantly reduce error rates.”
—  Line Handlos, Epidemiologist, Novo Nordisk
Solution components:
IBM® SPSS® Data Collection
The benefits:
Provides automatic validation rules to ensure data is entered accurately and consistently – a vital advantage compared to error-prone paper-based surveys.
Eliminates the need to print paper questionnaires and hire data-entry specialists to re-key data – reducing data processing costs significantly.
Accelerates the data collection process: data can now be prepared for analysis within days of collection instead of months, much faster than before.
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