There’s no shortage of data in healthcare—vital information about patients, the treatments they’ve received, diagnosis codes, billing/reimbursement details, and more. If you’re like many in the healthcare industry, you need an effective way to analyze and gain actionable information to improve profitability, medical outcomes, and patient satisfaction.
The digital transformation of healthcare presents huge, strategic opportunities to your organization. As the number of patients seeking care continues to rise, so does the need to provide a higher level of care while reducing costs and meeting regulatory and compliance requirements. Along with these challenges is the rapidly growing volume of healthcare data.
It’s remarkable to see the growth of data and advanced analytics over the past 20 years. In many ways, the growth can be likened to the early oil industry. Oil pioneers discovered oil and knew it was worth something but didn’t realize how it would radically transform the world.
Business intelligence (BI), as we know it today, has a longer history than you might think, predating computers and other technological advances. This article gives a general overview of how BI came to be, and how it’s evolved over the years to become the indispensable practice it is today.
The business intelligence (BI) and analytics market has changed considerably in the last year. To learn more about how you can modernize your BI efforts, download a complimentary copy of the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
In a recent webinar, Dave Fackler (business intelligence architect and author) from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) joined Peter Sprague (VP of Product Marketing at Pyramid Analytics) to talk about the challenges of large-scale business intelligence (BI) deployments. Dave shared his experiences implementing Pyramid Analytics’ BI Office Suite in the VA.
“The breadth of the types of businesses that we’re in is so broad that this kind of data is imperative to have that visibility and that clarity in the data that’s driving your businesses…We were able to get the data, understand it, and consequently save millions of dollars a year.” —Douglas Wolfe, Broward County Aviation Read more…
There are countless contributors to athletic success, including a coach with good planning and decision-making skills, talented and well prepared players, and good data analytics. In the athletics industry, analytics packs a winning punch in previously unimagined ways, and the number of potential uses of sports analytics continues to increase. There’s even a prominent, annual Read more…
Yesterday I presented a webinar for the nice people at Pyramid Analytics, the first of two. I was paid for it of course (I have to earn a living somehow, you know), but the main reason I agreed to do it was because they wanted me to discuss interesting Microsoft BI questions rather than just Read more…
This article is the second in a series that explores the role of a BI leader/BI program director/BI practice director. Topics included in this series over the coming weeks are: 1) Skills that are in demand for this role 2) Pain points that BI owners commonly face 3) Career advancement for BI owners 4) Common Read more…
On September 22, 2015, top Business Intelligence researcher Howard Dresner of Dresner Advisory Services and Peter Sprague, Vice President of Services and Sales Engineering at Pyramid Analytics, held a webinar to discuss why collaboration is key to successful Business Intelligence. Dresner led with background on the current state of Business Intelligence, what the objectives of Read more…
When your company is rolling out a new BI initiative, chances of success are greatly enhanced when Change Management is an integral part of the initiative.
This article is part of a series that explores the role of a BI owner/BI program director/BI practice director. Topics included in this series over the coming weeks are 1) Skills that are in demand for this role, 2) Pain points that BI owners commonly face, 3) Career advancement for BI owners, 4) Common examples Read more…
Congratulations, Memorial Healthcare System, for winning the prestigious 2015 Data+ Editors’ Choice Awards from Computerworld. On behalf of our entire team at Pyramid Analytics, we salute MHS and their BI initiative team for this remarkable achievement.
You can dynamically display and zero in on data in a dashboard by using parameter URLs. For example, you could customize a dashboard about territory sales so that the clothing department employees only see the clothing sales data. You could change the parameter later to dynamically show another sales category from the same data.