Business intelligence initiatives are often met with challenges. Getting the right information to the right people is often easier said than done. When implemented successfully, business intelligence solutions drive change; both in the way people work and the business decisions made. For organizations capturing business data electronically, Microsoft provides a set of integrated business intelligence […]
Posts Tagged ‘BI’
Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – October 2012
The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]
Implementation Challenges: What is BI?
A common need and challenge experienced by many organizations in the delivery of a BI solution is that while the desire for information is great, it is difficult to get those with the desire to articulate what their need really is. This can include what they plan do with the information once they have it, […]
Perficient Recognized for work with Premier health alliance
This week at IBM’s Information On Demand 2012 conference in Las Vegas, Perficient received the Integration Excellence Award. This recognition was a result of work with Premier healthcare alliance and IBM in developing and delivering PremierConnect, a technology platform that houses the largest virtual healthcare community in the country. From the press release: With increasing […]
Patient Safety and Transparency: My experience as a parent, not a physician
I recently had the opportunity to experience healthcare from a different point of view. My daughter had an emergency appendectomy, which forced me to navigate the healthcare system from the other side. As an Emergency Physician, I am used to quickly synthesizing data to care for my patients and make decisions that affect their lives. […]
Introduction to Data Quality Services (DQS) – Part I
I was recently introduced to SQL Server 2012 and discovered Data Quality Services (DQS); a new feature of SQL Server 2012. I wanted to use this blog as an introduction to DQS, define key terms, and present a simple example of the tool. According to MSDN, The data-quality solution provided by Data Quality Services (DQS) […]
Probing Questions to Identify the Right BI Tools to Use
Recently, a colleague asked me if I had a list of solid probing questions about the state of business intelligence within an organization. Moreover, because I was at the time part of our IBM Business Analytics Practice, he wanted to know if I had questions that specifically related to the IBM stack. What he wanted to […]
White Paper: BI for the Mid-Size Enterprise
Although the term “Business Intelligence” has only been around for a couple of decades, the concept of business intelligence (BI) goes back much further, to the early days of data processing. Today, BI describes a category of software tools and business practices used to manage data, providing insight to support better business decision making. Have […]
Big Data to attack Healthcare Fraud
According to a U.S. Senate Panel on Healthcare, healthcare fraud and abuse costs as much as $100 billion a year, or 10 percent of the $1 trillion spent on healthcare. In addition, these fraud costs are increasing at a rate of $3 billion a year. The traditional approach has been to pay claims and then […]
Readmission Rates – No Pain, No Gain
The readmission rate refers to patients who are discharged, then readmitted to the same facility for the same medical condition within a specific time period. For example, if I am discharged with Heart Failure and I return to the same hospital with Heart Failure conditions within 15 or 30 days, that is considered a readmission. […]
BI Usage is Growing in Healthcare
In his article, Healthcare’s Radar Picks up Increased Business Intelligence Activity, Eric Wicklund makes some good points and ponders the best way to use business intelligence to improve healthcare. Some background: 75% of payers and 44% providers find value in analytics, yet only 26% have BI programs in use. This shows a tremendous market for […]
Healthcare Analytics Predicted to Grow to 50% in 4 years
Research for Frost & Sullivan shows only 10% of hospitals used health analytics tools in 2011. They further predict this to follow the increased investment in EHR technology to 50% by 2016. This is fueled by programs such as the HITECH Act where analytics are needed to justify and qualify for payments. My recent blog […]