Posts Tagged ‘BI’

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 […]

Nothing is more impactful, engaging and notorious for a Health Insurance Payor than the replacement of their Claims platform or consolidation of many into one. For those contemplating such a move or already in the throes of one, here are some thoughts around “Best Practices” to make the effort successful. Data Repository To facilitate the […]

In my last blog posting, I talked about the role of the Data Governance Coordinating Committee as the body that coordinates the work of Data Stewards in Enterprise Data Governance when cross-domain enterprise data alignment is needed and to provide a consistent approach to Data Stewardship. In this posting I will describe many of the […]

A recent headline claims that Medicare will penalize 2,211 hospitals for readmissions. Altogether, this equates to about $280 million in Medicare payments withheld while the government starts holding hospitals accountable for the number of patients who return within a month of discharge with complications related to the original diagnosis. The article goes on to show […]

In my last blog, I explained the five levels of the BI Maturity Model. Today, I’m going to elaborate on level one. We all have to start somewhere. Healthcare is a profession that generates data by the ton. Most of this data is protected by federal laws for disclosure and is retained for decades in […]

Business intelligence as a concept is elusive in healthcare. While BI has caught up and advanced rapidly in other sectors it remains mostly uncharted territory for both physician practices and hospitals. The primary reason for this is lack of understanding of the benefits of BI and justification for taking the time to deploy and use […]

I was looking for a way to explain the challenges I’ve had this year getting people to adopt our Health BI solution. The solution is a highly complex business intelligence platform that offers over 600 pre-built measures. It is ONC certified for meaningful use for providers and hospitals. It sets the foundation for health systems […]

Once you’ve invested the time and effort into creating really solid, well documented data models, it would be really great to let some folks know about it, right!?!? If you’re using PowerDesigner, you’ve got a few options: Use the included (in some editions) web repository.  This requires the use of the model repository and displays […]

Today I sit on an airplane waiting for our turn to taxi and takeoff. We boarded the plane about 20 minutes behind schedule, and then we wait. I’m going to arrive late for my meeting if I make it at all. This makes me think about business intelligence and ways it can be used to […]

 Vision To build a CoE, it is absolutely essential to have a clearly defined vision. History proves that this grand, overall vision (or    plan) is critical to developing dominance in a specialty area. Once you establish a plan, specific strategies can then be developed based upon this plan. If strategies are not utilized in connection […]

In our standards XEM file (extended model definition), I’ve added column ordering functionality by categorizing each column and then ordering the categories. Column groups are defined in a BaseColumn template.  We have:   PRIM,0,%Primary% ROWMETA,3,%extIsRowDateMeta% META,4,%extIsMetaColumn% AKNONMETA,1,%AllKeys% BASE,2,TRUE  

I recently spent some time in Hilton Head, SC with my family recharging and refocusing. Although the company and the scenery were more than inspiring enough to me, I came across the following article “6 Steps to Become Amazingly Inspirational” by Mr. Simon Stapleton, July 18, 2012 and would like to share its message. In his […]