Data–Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI are Transforming the Industry

DISCOVER YOUR NEXT STEP TOWARD TURNING DATA INTO REAL VALUE Sometimes solutions present themselves exactly when they are needed most. Data-Driven Healthcare has arrived in the midst of cost reduction pressures, the Affordable Care Act, and a chaotic healthcare environment where the application of new technologies seems to be consistently lagging. Clearing away the chaos, author Laura Madsen builds on business intelligence (BI) concepts to create a simple approach to the use of data that can provide a way forward for your organization. From electronic health records to attractive data visualizations that will impress and inspire funders and stakeholders, Data-Driven Healthcare covers what you can do now to make your organization more intelligent. Laura Madsen has extensive experience in the healthcare industry and understands the unique opportunities and challenges of becoming data-driven. With the practical RISE approach— R educe the unknowns, I dentify alternatives, S tandardize data, and E valuate the data program—you will learn how data can help you meet the needs of your community while remaining competitive. Before blindly jumping at the latest data "solutions" on the market, read Data-Driven Healthcare . Funding for new information technologies is available, but making effective use of this funding will allow you to address the issues that really matter. To name just a few possibilities: Predictive analysis of patient readmissions Improved chronic disease management Revenue cycle optimization Privacy and security monitoring Demographic analysis for new markets In this latest title from the Wiley & SAS Business Series for senior managers, you'll discover that BI maturity and significant improvements in healthcare are well within your reach.

For the Skimmers Acknowledgments Chapter 1: What Does Data Mean to You? The Gap Data Is a Four Letter Word Setting the Stage Is This Book for You? References Chapter 2: What Happens When You Use Data to Transform an Industry? The History of Change On the Brink What Is Data–Driven and Why Does It Matter? Management and Measurement Planning the Approach RISE Change Mechanisms of RISE Revolution References Chapter 3: How the Lack of Data Standardization Impedes Data Driven Healthcare Healthcare Data Complexity Standards...Because Everyone Else Has Them Pareto′s Principle The Great Wall of Data References Note Chapter 4: Adopting your data warehouse for the next step in BI maturity Go Boldly Disruptive Technologies Hadoop, The Cloud, and Modern Data Platforms The New Way Forward The Future Is Now Chapter 5: Creating a Data Driven Healthcare Organization IT or the Business? Training What and How Should We Teach? Governing Data for Our New MDP Chapter 6: Applying "Big Data" to Change Healthcare The Call of Big Data Evolve or Die Let′s Organize This and Take All the Fun Out of It Dipping Your Big Toe into Big Data References Chapter 7: Making Data Consumable How We Present Information MATTERS When We Present the Information Matters Too Why Do We Want to Visually Represent Our Data? Learning a New Language A Multi–media Approach to Consumable Data References Chapter 8: Data Privacy and Confidentiality: A Brave New World Who Owns the Data? Barriers Are Everywhere Process and Technology Reference Chapter 9: A Call to Action Applying RISE to Your Efforts Some Distinctions About Being New Getting Started You Know What They Say About Assuming? What Does Data Mean to You? Transforming an Industry Data Standardization The Next Step in BI Maturity Creating the DDHO "Big Data" Make Your Data Consumable Privacy and Confidentiality Departing Thoughts on Data Driven Healthcare Appendix A  Readiness for Change Appendix B The Tenets of Healthcare BI Appendix C Estimating the Efforts Appendix D Business Metrics About the Author Index

LAURA B. MADSEN has 15 years of experience in BI and data warehousing for healthcare and is the author of Healthcare Business Intelligence . She leads the Enterprise BI and Analytics Program at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, where she is charged with creating a data-driven healthcare organization. Laura has held senior positions with several leading healthcare technology companies, including UnitedHealth Group. In 2006, she co-founded the Twin Cities chapter of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), and in 2008 she founded the Healthcare BI Summit. Laura speaks nationally and internationally about the importance and power of data in healthcare.