Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

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 […]

As a technology marketer, I thought it was appropriate that I begin my blogging experience with a post about the role of both social media and technology in the financial services and banking industry.  As mentioned in a recent HBR blog post, many traditional forms of marketing have been tossed to the wayside.  In response […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is a great video recently put out by SAP that covers real-time analytics with big data.  Watch closely for some interesting figures, including that “the total amount of data will grow 50 times in the next 8 years.”:

Setting up a new data governance program means bringing deep change to the operating culture of an organization.  As a result, getting traction for an enterprise scale effort may not always be the pragmatic route.  Sometimes its better to be small and excellent here and let the enterprise adopt governance organically. Limited Data Governance The […]

The Journey of a thousand miles towards an ACO begins with one step. Healthcare organizations are coming to realize that the programs stimulated by the ARRA – HITECH Act, Meaningful Use (MU) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), require something that they don’t have in sufficient quantities, the desired type or in the right format: “Data”. […]