Posts Tagged ‘BI’

Effective communication by BI teams creates better relationships with business users regardless of the development methodology employed.  Providing: a clear picture of the team’s service offerings before the project, project insight during the project, and ongoing visibility after the project are the triad of effective BI communication and are nearly always a significant part of […]

Poolside on the 4th of July (in between tossing the football and taking diving lessons from my daughter Paige), I read an interesting article written by Dr. Jeff Focht, vice president for academic affairs at the community college I first attended before going on to Penn State. In his article, “at the end of the […]

The Federal Register outlines the following pros from comments received on the adoption of X12 Version 5010 for HIPAA Transactions: 1) reduction in analysis time and minimization of companion guides; 2) improved efficiency through improved eligibility responses and better search options, reducing phone calls to providers and health plans; 3) improved electronic posting, automation of […]

This is a topic I touched on a couple of months ago in my blog “EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health.” Health Systems have been on a tear over the last several years with the deployment of technology to enable the transactional or tactical execution of business activities and delivery of care. With the diversity […]

In my last blog posting, I talked about the role of the Data Governance Board as the key decision making body in Enterprise Data Governance. The decisions which the Data Governance Board should make should be highly strategic in nature – you don’t want executives and senior leaders sitting around arguing over fine distinctions in […]

The American College of Healthcare Executives announced the top issues confronting hospitals in 2011. It is clear from this news release that financial challenges topped the list and still remain there. In fact, they are far higher priority than everything else and have been for the last three years. The article points out the largest […]

In my last blog posting, I talked about the need for Data Governance and Data Stewardship to work collaboratively across business units and that organizations should be formed over time to help enable this collaboration. While no two Data Governance programs are identical, below is an example structure which might be adopted, in a phased […]

If you are still thinking about your strategy for Meaningful Use, I want you to stop right now and write me a check for $5,000 for every physician in your practice. I promise I’ll put the money to good use. This is conceptually what happens if you don’t act immediately. You have just given away […]

When you hear some talk about Data Governance, it is hard to decipher whether they’re really talking about Data Governance or if they’re really talking about Data Management or some ambiguous conglomeration of the two. The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management defines Data Governance as “The exercise of authority, control and shared decision making (planning, […]

I’m always striving to lower the wall between design and implementation.  In BI, this means taking as much of the data architect and business analyst’s work and applying it directly to the data management process (without the developer or administrator middlemen).  Here’s some opportunities: Model builds – Your modeling tool should be able to produce […]

During work on our in-house lightweight metadata repository (MDR), I’ve started to use DBFit for database acceptance testing and have been pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the tool and its ability to deliver on its promise of low entry cost testing. DBFit is a part of FitNesse, itself an implementation of the FIT acceptance […]

I have mentioned in earlier posts that fixing today’s chronic diseases is a change management problem that should start with elementary education. I’ve done more research and realize some of the things I learned during my own elementary education are the potential case of this very problem. This article makes a compelling case for the […]