Sevita is dedicated to providing adults, children, and their families innovative services and support designed to lead to growth and independence despite physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges. With person-centered care, the company works to foster independence, improve quality of life, and promote overall well-being for the individuals they serve. As such, the data on labor, occupancy, and engagement is extremely meaningful. Here, CIO Patrick Piccininno provides a roadmap of his journey from data with no integration to meaningful dashboards, insights, and a data literate culture.
You’re building an enterprise data platform for the first time in Sevita’s history. What’s driving this investment?
When I joined in July 2022, the company had spent the prior 24 months completing more than 20 acquisitions, and the IT team was busy bringing all these new systems online. Our legacy architecture consisted of multiple standalone, on-prem data marts intended to integrate transactional data from roughly 30 electronic health record systems to deliver a reporting capability. But because of the infrastructure, employees spent hours on manual data analysis and spreadsheet jockeying. We had plenty of reporting, but very little data insight, and no real semblance of a data strategy.
