In the age of ACOs and value based payments, there is a constant pressure on the healthcare industry to reduce costs without damaging the quality of care provided. While there are many factors in this balancing act, hospital readmissions and lack of medication adherence are two issues driving up costs that can be addressed and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Attention Shoppers, Blue Light Specials, and Big Data
Remember the days when you’d hear that on the in-stores announcement? “Attention Shoppers! For the next hour K-Mart is now offering a blue light special – half off all summer beach wear.” Those announcement where a form of on-site marketing offers made only to the stores patrons shopping at the time. The offers were made […]
Why are BI Projects so difficult to implement? part 3
You can find the previous posts to this topic here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 2.5 So how do we reduce the amount of anxiety related to a BI project (thus making them less painful)? To start, the project team needs to be keenly aware of the following: They must consistently over communicate that some […]
Drive Compliance and Profitability with Healthcare Analytics
Healthcare organizations face a constant pressure to reduce costs and improve performance, all while meeting changing regulatory regulations. Fortunately, with constant developments in technology, health IT can help organizations gain a competitive advantage. Healthcare analytics can provide organizations the ability to use their data to improve the quality of care, increase financial efficiency and operational […]
Creating Dynamic OLAP cubes from Custom Field data, pt. 1
A source system that contains dynamic or customer-defined data fields is both an old problem and a sticky one in the DW/BI environment. A standard approach of flattening the dynamic data into name/value pairs is recommended for a relational-type database. But what about multidimensional modeling or OLAP storage? Name/value pairs are just the beginning. To […]
An Integrated view of CMS ACO Shared Savings Program Measures
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence Claims + Meaningful Use participation + GPRO + Survey = CMS ACO SSP Simple, right? How will your facility approach the December 31, 2013 deadline? Will they cut and paste result sets from 4 or more systems? Hand code at the top level from a screen […]
Innovation Born of Uncertain Times
Great innovations often are molded and born in times of uncertainty. As economies the world over adjust to new realities, there are opportunities for companies to lead and change the game. A recent article in Forbes details some ways to take the lead. At the core of enabling this change are social capabilities and the […]
The Healthcare Debate is now about Finance
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer told healthcare finance professionals last week at ANI: The HFMA National Institute. “People want to know why health care costs what it does and what we’re doing about it,” Fifer said. “We need to move beyond the rhetoric.”1 Fifer went on to say that consumers are fed up with […]
Social Media, The Commerce of Being Nice, and Delta
We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]
Oracle and Salesforce.com Announce New Strategic Partnership
Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost implementations. Both Companies Agree to Integrate Salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds From Oracle OPN Press Release, Redwood Shores, Calif. – June 25, 2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] and Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] announced today a comprehensive […]
Perficient Showcasing Oracle EPM Technologies @ ODTUG KSCOPE13
Perficient Oracle EPM team is in NOLA for the annual ODTUG Kscope13 conference, June 23-27. The conference is tailored to developers, technical architects and business users to gain insights on Oracle technologies and applications including business intelligence, Oracle EPM, Fusion Middleware and Application Express. The conference format and activities provide a vehicle for extensive networking and sharing content around Oracle tools and […]
Enhancing Patient Experience through Financial Transparency
The CEOs of three major hospital systems participated in a round table at the recent conference that I attended to discuss how their organizations are working to improve patient experience. One of the topics that emerged is “financial transparency”. All three disclosed that in their facilities, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) makes regular rounds on […]