Five Project Management Strategies To Successfully Leverage Analytics for Healthcare Improvement

by Trevor Strome January 27, 2012

Implementing business intelligence and analytics projects within a Healthcare Organization (HCO) are challenging due to regulatory and financial pressures facing healthcare, the complexity of data involved, the multitude of stakeholders, and relative newness of BI technologies to healthcare. Below are some strategies that can help your HCO implement BI and analytics projects that become integral [...]

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Putting Analytics to Work for your Healthcare Improvement Initiatives

by Trevor Strome January 17, 2012

The number of healthcare analytics options are increasing. Some HCOs have the benefit of a large Business Intelligence (BI) or analytics platform. These stand-alone BI systems are somewhat general-purpose in nature, and operate in many industries other than healthcare. Many of these platforms are powerful indeed, with many analytics functions and features available. In addition [...]

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Ensuring health care analytics create value by understanding the requirements of information end-users

by Trevor Strome January 12, 2012

There is a proliferation of “real-time” dashboards and other information displays throughout healthcare organizations. In a recent article on information overload, I mentioned that information on reports, dashboards, and analytic tools that is not up-to date, relevant, and accurate will merely contribute to information overload. This in turn decreases the value, and use, of analytics [...]

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Top Ten Articles of 2011 on HealthcareAnalytics.info

by Trevor Strome December 29, 2011

As 2011 draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the readers of HealthcareAnalytics.info for helping this site grow. Your feedback, comments, and suggestions have been invaluable in shaping the content I place on this site. Throughout the year, I have enjoyed interacting with many of you via email, telephone, [...]

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The Case for Self-Serve Healthcare Business Intelligence and Analytics

by Trevor Strome November 27, 2011

The need for convenient access to information is growing.  The use of data within Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) is growing at an astronomical rate. Efforts to guide decision-making and quality improvement initiatives with the best evidence possible mandate convenient access to up-to-date and accurate healthcare performance data. For example, Dashboards ranging from advanced “flight-board” schedule rosters [...]

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Healthcare Analytics – A Strategic Resource for Healthcare Quality Improvement

by Trevor Strome November 1, 2011

Analytics is changing how health care organizations (HCOs) improve clinical quality, operational efficiency and patient safety. Unfortunately, many HCOs may not be fully benefiting from the potential goldmine of useful information made possible by computerized records and analytics resources (including specialists and software) within their organizations. In my recent article posted on the Health IT Exchange, I [...]

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2011 Healthcare BI Summit a Great Success

by Trevor Strome October 14, 2011

I would like to thank the folks at Lancet Software for hosting the 2011 Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit held in Minneapolis MN and for inviting me to speak at the event. The event was very well attended, with many healthcare BI stakeholder groups (including clinicians, executives, and analysts) represented. There were many excellent speakers at the [...]

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Agile Analytics – Can there be any other kind in healthcare?

by Trevor Strome September 26, 2011

Agile software development overview In the world of software development, the term “agile development” (as defined by Wikipedia) refers to “a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.” Recently, the term “agile analytics” has emerged, undoubtedly coined to apply the [...]

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With Healthcare BI on the rise, tap into education and networking…

by Laura Madsen September 9, 2011

[Editor's Note: This guest post is written by Laura Madsen, Healthcare Practice Lead at Lancet Software, and founder of the Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit. We are happy to welcome Laura as a contributor!] In August 2011, KLAS Research issued a report titled Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance.  The report highlights something my colleagues and [...]

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Advances in Healthcare IT are Improving Patient Safety

by Trevor Strome August 31, 2011

IT implementations must focus on the needs of the patient Most quality improvement approaches used in healthcare (including Lean, Six Sigma, and others) consider, if not focus on, the needs of the patient when identifying opportunities for improvement and when defining metrics for evaluating outcomes and sustainability. Importantly, as health information technology (HIT) implementation projects [...]

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