Unlocking Benchmarking Potential at HCA Healthcare: Facility Peer Groups Powered by ClearScape Analytics®

For large healthcare systems like HCA, with its 186 diverse hospitals, effective benchmarking requires more than just surface-level comparisons. Comparing a bustling urban trauma center to smaller hospitals using simple metrics like revenue misses the mark. Recognizing this, HCA is utilizing the advanced capabilities of Teradata VantageCloud on Google Cloud and ClearScape Analytics®. Through AI-powered K-means clustering, they're creating truly comparable peer groups by intelligently weighting factors such as size, patient volume, case mix, staffing levels, and patient complexity. This move toward "apples-to-apples" benchmarking isn't just about accuracy—it's about generating actionable insights that empower HCA to learn, improve, and ultimately elevate the quality of patient care across their entire network.