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BI for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

BI for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

Business intelligence can improve performance across multiple areas of a healthcare business. In this article I will focus on revenue cycle management. While the cost of delivering care continues to rise, getting reimbursement from patients and insurance companies is...

Five Approaches to Extract Value from Big Data

Five Approaches to Extract Value from Big Data

In the age of big data, the world’s most successful companies will be data-driven enterprises. That is to say, data will be hardwired into their decision-making through automated processes that enable them to move with great speed and agility. To reach this level of...

IT vs. Marketing: Partnership or Competition?

IT vs. Marketing: Partnership or Competition?

Marketing is emerging as key drivers of IT spending in digital technologies. Is there conflict up ahead? What is your IT organization doing to keep from being marginalized on cutting edge marketing technology decisions and strategies? Is IT competing with marketing...

Infographic: Is your Data Secure

Infographic: Is your Data Secure

A lot of consumers and organisations are using the cloud and all that data is stored in massive data centers all over the world. Google, Facebook, the NSA and many others have built gigantic data centers that can store up to a Yottabyte of data! But how secure is your...

Don’t Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good

Don’t Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good

Big data noise has reached the point where most are reaching for the ear plugs. And with any good hype bubble, the naysayers are now grabbing attention with contrarian positions. For example, The New York Times expressed doubt about the economic viability of big data...

How to Implement Lean BI

How to Implement Lean BI

Before delving into what Lean BI is, it is important to address what Lean BI is not. Many people hear the word “Lean” and it conjures up images of featureless tools, limited budgets, reduced development and the elimination of jobs. Dispelling those myths out of the...