American Data Network

American Data Network, founded in 1994, is a healthcare data company serving hospitals and other healthcare organisations across the United States. Its business combines software applications, outsourcing services and analytics to help clients convert clinical data into usable intelligence. The firm works chiefly in the fields of patient safety, quality improvement and hospital operations.

The company's offerings fall into five areas: outsourced clinical data abstraction; software for reporting patient safety events; software for managing hospital complaints and grievances; culture of safety survey services; and data analytics services. Together these cover both the collection of clinical data and its subsequent analysis, allowing healthcare organisations to consolidate work that is often handled by separate vendors.

American Data Network employs a technical staff that includes Ph.D. statisticians, programmers working in SAS, R, Python and SQL, quality and patient safety experts, and data and business analysts. Its stated areas of expertise span healthcare data analytics, clinical data abstraction, patient safety event reporting, statistical analysis, quality improvement analytics and survey services.

With more than 30 years in operation, the firm positions itself as a long-term partner to healthcare organisations, with an emphasis on enabling client teams to work faster and on supporting institutions engaged in patient safety and quality improvement work.