Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Performance Management’

Hopefully everyone has been enjoying my many post on Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), again its starting to become one of my favorite ETL or E-LT software solutions.  With that being said, I wanted to continue my discussions with ODI and create a post showing you all how to create a ODI scenario and load plan. […]

So I’m hoping you all read my previous post on “Creating an Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Interface” and hopefully it was simple to follow.  Today, I want to show you how to take your interface and bundle it into a ODI package with other ODI components in which will all you to run more than […]

Hopefully you all had a chance to check out my recent blog posting “Getting to know Oracle’s Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).”  If you haven’t checked it out yet, I urge you to check it out.  Well to continue on the topic of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), I wanted to put together a few posts on […]

As an avid user of IBM DataStage for over 8 years I was recently on a client engagement where I had to use Oracle’s Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).  At first I was disappointed as I was out of my confront zone.  But after a week or two I was very surprised how quickly I was […]

Embracing data-driven decision making in a healthcare setting requires agile thinking to pinpoint and respond to the short- and long-term needs of the organization. This shift requires finance departments to transcend from the typical focus on aggregating data to a value-added analytical view of hospital data. This new approach will provide greater visibility into changes […]

I’ve talked a lot lately about cost vs. quality but this time, I want to talk about why all this is important by telling a little story. A few years ago, I was visiting a CFO for a large academic medical center and he was interrupted for a discussion about a chronically ill international patient […]

Data from a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that individuals enrolled in high-deductible health plans are more likely to behave like consumers and seek data on price and quality before receiving care.1 This, combined with the effects of the Affordable Care Act, where trends are reflecting that more than 80% of […]

Robert S. Kaplan, PhD, writes about improving the “value of care” in this month’s HFMA magazine. “Existing cost measurement systems in healthcare are inadequate. They typically use inaccurate and arbitrary cost allocations and provide little transparency to guide clinician and staff driven efforts to reduce costs and improve processes to enhance outcomes. They also fail […]

Assembling the data needed to achieve financial transparency is both a technical and political challenge. My recent BLOG In Managing Finance at Hospitals, the Proof is in the Data discusses this in detail. I thought I’d take a moment now to discuss some of the software that combines clinical and financial data for cost management […]

Healthcare leaders are challenged to understand the true costs associated with providing care. If you ask caregivers to determine their current workflow, they don’t really know where the patient and family go before or after each step of their care so the total care pathway is not in their purview. This is a well-known challenge […]

The Situation: Planning 11.1.2.1 Client has two Plan types (Finance & FTE) Detail employee data is held in the FTE cube and summary employee data is held in the Finance cube Requirement: Move data from FTE cube to Finance cube at the summary level as efficiently as possible. Solution: The @XWRITE function does just what […]

Assembling data is both a technical and political challenge. I’ve been involved with multiple hospitals where the finance and clinical teams never really collaborate and therefore the lenses put on either domain is not terribly realistic. Truly merging and using the data requires clinical and financial leaders to establish trust and shared goals that promote […]