Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

An enterprise master patient index (EMPI) is the glue that holds together all things patient related. It provides the foundation for improved patient safety and outcomes, as well as a positive patient experience. The issue I’ve seen is that a lot of healthcare organizations don’t havea comprehensive, consistent, EMPI. So why are organizations in this […]

The healthcare world is in the middle of a data revolution of sorts. Both providers and payors are starting to realize that their transactional systems contain a wealth of data that can be used for strategic advantage. Many organizations are spending considerable time and resources in standardizing, cleansing and remediating data issues in their transactional […]

Just as the creation of the internet and the World Wide Web has forced companies to bring on new technologies and consequently create new roles that they did not have 20 years ago, increasing data volumes and analytical power, as it relates to Business Intelligence, has had the same effect on organizations in order for […]

One of the most useful features of Excel 2010 and Pivot Tables is the new Slicer component. The Slicer allows end users to more easily visualize what dimensions and attributes are available to “slice and dice” the data and what has been selected as filter criteria. In past versions of Excel, the Report Filter was […]

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services has some great features and is extremely useful for cleansing and importing data into SQL Server, however; not every situation warrants its use. One instance where I found SSIS to be less useful was when importing a lot (just under 100) of XML source files into a SQL data warehouse. […]

While assisting an organization in deciding if they should obtain a Business Intelligence solution; which vendor is most adequate to suit their needs and actually implementing the system may seem like the hard part, in many cases, it turns out to be the easy part. In my experience, the hardest part lies in the adoption […]

While working for a global executive search firm during the height of the US credit and housing crisis, the SVP – US Finance became anxious as the firm was having an unusually difficult time collecting past due invoices from clients. This data was a key component of their financial Business Intelligence system and readily available […]

Analytics can offer a wide range of benefits to healthcare organizations. It can provide information to make better decisions on or impact quality of care, patient outcomes, cost containment, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. At a theoretical level, healthcare organizations understand these benefits. In fact, implementing analytics is on the top ten list of many […]

In part I we discussed the value of near real-time analytics to support clinical care delivery. As promised we wanted to next discuss the power of Clinical Decision Assist – providing clinicians with the ability to effect change while the ability to do so still exists. Near real-time analytics environments are difficult to develop, especially […]

Debra Logan gave some insights on what social software means to the KM world.   I find this interesting because we all talk about capturing and using the knowledge inherent in our organizations………….we just do a lousy job of implementing it.  I think it has to do with both the tools we used previously and with […]

Check out my SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Posts:   1. SharePoint 2010 Insights – Reporting Services and Chart Web Parts 2. SharePoint 2010 Insights – Excel Services and Visio Services 3. SharePoint 2010 Insights – PerformancePoint Review Part 1 of 2 4. SharePoint 2010 Insights – PerformancePoint Review Part 2 of 2   Enjoy!!