If the pressure to obtain and implement Customer Relationship Management software by healthcare organizations is any indication, decision makers are recognizing the increasing importance of consumer knowledge in the race to improve patient satisfaction scores. Indeed, today, patient insights can lead healthcare organizations to their best opportunities for growth and restoration of profitability far more […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Creating your First Report in SSRS – Part 1
I am splitting this article in 2 parts. In the first part, I want to talk about all the tools you need to create your first report. Before reading the 2nd part of this post, make sure you have: 1.) Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Development Studio 2.) Report Builder 3.0 (I am going to use Report […]
Key Ingredients to an Enterprise Information Management Solution
EIM Gumbo 1 portion of Data Governance 1 portion of Data Warehousing A stock of interoperability* Culture, chopped up finely Dash of patience *Measured and added to the extent as needed. Can be made up of a variety of means, manner and mechanisms to facility the move of data to the warehouse and information from […]
What I Learned at Oracle Open World, #OOW13
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 turned out to be one of my best experiences with a trade-show ever! I made new contacts, I learned about product strategy and I learned about awesome customer stories related to innovative healthcare solutions. Perficient’s Lesli Adams @lesliadams provided innovative solution overviews highlighting healthcare business intelligence solutions #OBIEE for Patient Centered Medical […]
Social Meets Clinical Meets Research: Big Data in Medicine
I was intrigued immediately when I read that The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York hired the former data scientist for Facebook, Jeff Hammerbacher, to develop and refine their predictive analytics capabilities. It seems like a collision of the planets! Is it possible that this social media data scientist could break the code of […]
Office 365 Power BI updates
Microsoft announced today that the Power BI for Office 365 preview has been updated. One of my colleagues, Andrew Tegethoff, previously mentioned the compelling features in a previous post. The features were not all available in the preview at the time of the earlier posting. They have added natural language search with Q&A, as well […]
Business Intelligence Tools and Agenda
Hello Readers and fellow Perficient bloggers, This is my first official blog post on Business Intelligence forum. Before I tell you what my blog is about and the agenda for upcoming blog posts, I would like to give you a quick introduction. I am Sujay Nadkarni and I joined Perficient in March 2012 as a […]
Healthcare Integration and Oracle
When a Healthcare Information Technology leader thinks about sharing data, they may not consider Oracle solutions, but indeed, Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of only five industries designated as strategic to the future of Oracle. The Oracle Global Business Unit is a true R & D business unit that has invested over 10 billion […]
Top 5 Best Practices for an Actionable BI Strategy
In an earlier blog post, I pointed out a number of companies complete a BI Strategy but only to shelve it shortly after its completion. One main reason is that companies let their BI Strategy atrophy by not maintaining it; however, the other main cause of shelving a BI Strategy is that it was not […]
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
There was a recent article in the NY Times with this title that captures the essence of the current costing discussion. One-liter IV bags normally contain nine grams of salt, less than two teaspoons. Much of it comes from a major Morton Salt operation in Rittman, Ohio, which uses a subterranean salt deposit formed millions […]
Cost Accounting and New Reimbursement Models
The healthcare payment systems are evolving from simple pay-for-performance demonstration projects and never-event exclusions to Medicare value based purchasing, readmission restrictions, and bundled payments. Expenses also are under scrutiny and required accurate costing data. Costing systems need to be freed from the back room and become a relevant corner stone for preparing forecasts and capacity […]
Databases & hardware: Hot topics at OpenWorld – #OOW13
60,000 people will convene to watch 3,600 partners and customers speak in sessions at Oracle OpenWorld this week. Oracle’s rockstar, chief executive Larry Ellison, kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening, highlighting a shift to “in-memory technology to speed up by as much as 100 times the databases that are the foundation of the company’s business.” Ellison presented: […]