Healthcare Business Intelligence

"This book will be constructed as a guidebook for healthcare organizations that are attempting BI/DW. It will address the primary functions of a business intelligence capability and how BI can ease the increasing regulatory reporting pressures on all healthcare organizations. Also included will be tables, checklists and a few forms. Tenative chapter contents: Chapter 1: What is Healthcare BI? Chapter 2: The Five Disciplines of Business Intelligence Chapter 3: The Importance of ETL Chapter 4: Starting with Data Governance Chapter 5: Creating a BI team Chapter 6: Data Modeling for Healthcare Chapter 7: Gaining Support for your BI program Chapter 8: Ensuring good User Adoption Chapter 9: Marketing Your BI Program Chapter 10: Maintaining Your BI Program"--

"This book introduces data mining, modeling, and analytic techniques to health and healthcare data; articulates the value of big volumes of data to health and healthcare; evaluates business intelligence tools; and explores business intelligence use and applications in healthcare"

Solid business intelligence guidance uniquely designed for healthcare organizations Increasing regulatory pressures on healthcare organizations have created a national conversation on data, reporting and analytics in healthcare. Behind the scenes, business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) capabilities are key drivers that empower these functions. Healthcare Business Intelligence is designed as a guidebook for healthcare organizations dipping their toes into the areas of business intelligence and data warehousing. This volume is essential in how a BI capability can ease the increasing regulatory reporting pressures on all healthcare organizations. Explores the five tenets of healthcare business intelligence Offers tips for creating a BI team Identifies what healthcare organizations should focus on first Shows you how to gain support for your BI program Provides tools and techniques that will jump start your BI Program Explains how to market and maintain your BI Program The risk associated with doing BI/DW wrong is high, and failures are well documented. Healthcare Business Intelligence helps you get it right, with expert guidance on getting your BI program started and successfully keep it going.

Data analysis is an important part of modern business administration, as efficient compilation of information allows managers and business leaders to make the best decisions for the financial solvency of their organizations. Understanding the use of analytics, reporting, and data mining in everyday business environments is imperative to the success of modern businesses. Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings incorporates emerging concepts, methods, models, and relevant applications of business intelligence systems within problem contexts of healthcare and other organizational boundaries. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rise of embedded analytics, competitive advantage, and strategic capability, this book is ideally designed for business analysts, investors, corporate managers, and entrepreneurs seeking to advance their understanding and practice of business intelligence.

Business intelligence supports managers in enterprises to make informed business decisions in various levels and domains such as in healthcare. These technologies can handle large structured and unstructured data (big data) in the healthcare industry. Because of the complex nature of healthcare data and the significant impact of healthcare data analysis, it is important to understand both the theories and practices of business intelligence in healthcare. Theory and Practice of Business Intelligence in Healthcare is a collection of innovative research that introduces data mining, modeling, and analytic techniques to health and healthcare data; articulates the value of big volumes of data to health and healthcare; evaluates business intelligence tools; and explores business intelligence use and applications in healthcare. While highlighting topics including digital health, operations intelligence, and patient empowerment, this book is ideally designed for healthcare professionals, IT consultants, hospital directors, data management staff, data analysts, hospital administrators, executives, managers, academicians, students, and researchers seeking current research on the digitization of health records and health systems integration.

Implementing business intelligence is a strategic activity that channels the outcomes of performance throughout the healthcare organization and its stakeholders. Additionally, business intelligence provides a visual, high-level view of historical trends, current operations and predictive analysis. Through insightful chapters written by industry experts and numerous, real-world case studies, this book demonstrates myriad practical and proven steps to developing a business intelligence solution, including pre- and post-implementation issues. This book is packed with information that will help you and your organization raise awareness of hidden business intelligence, generate improved analytical data and spread the access to this new information across the continuum of care. 2012.

Business intelligence (BI) tools are capable of working with healthcare data in an efficient manner to generate real-time information and knowledge relevant to the success of healthcare organizations. Further, BI tools benefit healthcare professionals making critical decisions within hospitals, clinics, and physicians’ offices. Applying Business Intelligence to Clinical and Healthcare Organizations presents new solutions for data analysis within the healthcare sector in order to improve the quality of medical care and patient quality of life. Business intelligence models and techniques are explored and their benefits for the healthcare sector exposed in this timely research-based publication comprised of chapters written by professionals and researchers from around the world. Hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, biomedical engineers, informatics engineers, and students in graduate-level healthcare management programs will find this publication essential to their professional development and research needs.

Healthcare generates enormous amounts of data. Left unstructured and unanalyzed, this data does little to help hospitals and healthcare facilities offer better care or develop more effective practices. "Big data" isn't an issue confined to the healthcare industry-many other industries struggle to capitalize on the possibilities lurking within unmined data. In response to this need, analytical software such as IBM(R) Watson(TM)Analytics has become vital for long-term success. Working with a sample Medicaid data set, business intelligence experts Dr. Shilpa Balan and Dr. Joseph Otto reveal how to use IBM Watson Analytics to analyze healthcare data and transform unstructured data into actionable information. Balan and Otto break down the complex task of data analysis into easily understood sections, demonstrating vital aspects of data set analysis, such as creating a cloud-based data environment, data refinement, data exploration, predictive analytics, dashboard building, and social media data analysis. Used correctly, healthcare data sets can provide valuable insight into costs and claims, research and development, patient behavior, and medical records. Let Balan and Otto provide your facility with the data analysis techniques and skills needed to uncover the secrets of your facility's data collection.