Blog - Real time understanding of your Riskman / IMS platform makes sense

There's a hidden cost in every health service that almost nobody talks about.

It's the hours clinical governance and quality managers spend each month turning Risk data into something a Board can actually read (and use!)

Manual extracts. Spreadsheet charts. Run charts built from scratch - 1 to 2 hours each, every single month. Formatted into slides. Reviewed. Corrected. Done again next month.

For a senior clinical manager on $150k, that's roughly $90 an hour. At 10 hours a month, that's $900 a month… just in one person's time. Multiply that across a governance team and you're looking at $30,000–$45,000 a year in labour cost, just to move data from one system to a slide deck or a board report.

Never mind the cost of inaction when things go wrong.

That's the problem we've built a solution for at CFS Australasia.

Our Risk dashboard suite — built on Power BI, fed by live API’s — gives health services:
📊 Automatic SPC control charts with signals flagged in real time
📋 Incident Reports with full drill-down by wards, directorates, areas and times
💬 Feedback Reports for patient and consumer feedback trends and closure rates
📈 Quality Indicator dashboards for care and compliance reporting

We're live with clients now. The data is real. The time savings are real.

If your team is still manually charting Risk data and relying on people’s goodwill, I'd love to show you what's possible.