The Huge Cost of Measurement in Healthcare
Researchers from Johns Hopkins have confirmed quantitatively what everyone who works with metrics in healthcare already knows intuitively: the costs…
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How to Mitigate the Data Architect Bottleneck
In healthcare there’s a well-known goal of enabling everyone to work at the top of their license. We want surgeons…
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Project Highlight: Analytics Success at a Rural Health System
It’s no secret that rural hospitals, which are often Critical Access Hospitals, face significant headwinds to being able to continue…
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What’s a Healthcare Metric Hub and Why Do I Need One?
If you’ve worked in healthcare analytics for any period of time, you’ve seen first-hand the intense complexity of the metrics…
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Project Highlight: Metric Chaos Solved!
We’ve had the pleasure of working with Hennepin Healthcare several times and in many different ways over the past 10…
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The Rural Hospital Catch-22: Can’t Afford Analytics, Can’t Survive Without It
Across the country, independent rural hospitals are facing a dilemma: they need to harness their data in order to measure…
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Greetings from Phoenix
This week Kevin Campbell and I had the opportunity to be in the unfortunately-not-so-sunny-or-warm Phoenix area for the AHA Rural…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Conclusion
Looking back over this blog series, originally titled “5 Oft-Neglected Things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More…Oft” before being “edited”, I…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Regular Check-Ups
We’ve covered a lot of topics in this series, and they are all meant to serve as reminders of important…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Share the Load
To warn you, if the last blog post made you uncomfortable, this one is going to make you downright cranky.…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Pull Back the Curtain
Last time, I talked about why Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Business Intelligence (BI) teams should be very interested in…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Marketing
In the last post, we introduced the problem of healthcare provider organizations who have sophisticated business intelligence tools and forays…
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Neglected things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Mastering the Basics
When it comes to business intelligence and analytics in healthcare, it seems to me that there is a significant divide…
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Neglected Things EDW/BI Teams Should Do More Often – Intro
I recently had the fortune of taking a wonderful road trip with the family, but I also had the misfortune…
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It Takes a Village: Closing Thoughts
In the previous post, we talked about how you can in a sense “crowdsource” the development of your enterprise data…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Crowdsource your EDW development
Let’s take the “village” concept from the previous blog post a step further—and here’s where it gets more controversial: to…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Why it will take a Village to Build an EDW
In the previous blog posts we’ve talked about how yes, you can do more with less by employing the proper…
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Your Enterprise Data Warehouse: Using the Right Tools for the Job (Part 2)
With the increasing demand for analytics at the same time as increasing pressure to cut costs, we have to figure out…
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