Once initial interviews with leadership and stakeholders are complete the next tool to use is a detailed process review. The focus is to interview specific individuals to capture detailed processes that occur in a unit, department or team the project will impact. During the interviews reassure individuals they are more than welcome to make adjustments […]
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PHM: We have the will, but do we have the way?
There is a strong interest in the healthcare providers tackling population health management, especially as it relates to efforts to build Accountable Care Organizations. The idea of identifying a regional population including all care settings, acute, ambulatory, skilled nursing facilities and more, then sorting out the high risk, chronic illness members for improving their health […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 1
This blog will be the first in my Lean Healthcare series. In this first blog, we will keep it short and sweet. I will provide you with the basic premise of the lean methodology, present the goals of lean, provide you with the 5 basic principles and explain why lean applies to healthcare and a […]
Watching the pennies with Business Intelligence
The American College of Healthcare Executives announced the top issues confronting hospitals in 2011. It is clear from this news release that financial challenges topped the list and still remain there. In fact, they are far higher priority than everything else and have been for the last three years. The article points out the largest […]
Data Governance and Stewardship Organizations
In my last blog posting, I talked about the need for Data Governance and Data Stewardship to work collaboratively across business units and that organizations should be formed over time to help enable this collaboration. While no two Data Governance programs are identical, below is an example structure which might be adopted, in a phased […]
Meaningful Use: The clock is still ticking
If you are still thinking about your strategy for Meaningful Use, I want you to stop right now and write me a check for $5,000 for every physician in your practice. I promise I’ll put the money to good use. This is conceptually what happens if you don’t act immediately. You have just given away […]
Tools of the Trade: The Initial Interviews
Second in this series of requirement gathering tools is the interview. Interviewing may sound easy and generic but there are several objectives to achieve using the tool. First, focus upon on a list of objectives to orchestrate a plan. Several objectives come to mind, with the main goal being establishing rapport with leadership due to […]
Data Governance vs. Data Management
When you hear some talk about Data Governance, it is hard to decipher whether they’re really talking about Data Governance or if they’re really talking about Data Management or some ambiguous conglomeration of the two. The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management defines Data Governance as “The exercise of authority, control and shared decision making (planning, […]
Tools of the Trade: Evaluating Corporate Culture
The next series of my blogs will focus on tools, strategies and techniques to gather business requirements. Some methods are fairly obvious whereas others are painfully discrete and can stifle an analyst’s approach. Upon entering the realm of the unknown, one item to consider in gathering requirements is the political culture of a firm and […]
We are too fat: What Health BI can do to help
I have mentioned in earlier posts that fixing today’s chronic diseases is a change management problem that should start with elementary education. I’ve done more research and realize some of the things I learned during my own elementary education are the potential case of this very problem. This article makes a compelling case for the […]
Requirements Gathering for a Multi-Application Solution
When documenting business requirements for a multi-application technology-based solution, is it crucial to have proper representation from the impacted systems in each discussion? For example, provider contracts may be stored in one internal application (i.e., SharePoint) but must be exposed to providers via a second application (external portal) after being passed through a third application […]
No one gets hurt when you crash your revenue cycle
The Revenue Cycle is the operational process an organization follows to bring cash into the hospital. Revenue Cycle Management is about monitoring this process to identify strong and weak points in this process. In this video I will demonstrate how to use business intelligence tools to manage your revenue cycles. This will cover considerations around […]