Healthcare Business Intelligence: A Guide to Empowering Successful Data Reporting and Analytics

Lancet's healthcare practice leader provides a key source of knowledge and advice for healthcare leaders considering BI investment

MINNEAPOLIS, Jun 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Expanding federal regulations require that healthcare organizations access, analyze and report on their data. "Healthcare Business Intelligence," the first book to address business intelligence (BI) as it relates to healthcare, helps leaders use BI and data warehousing to meet these requirements. The book, written by Lancet healthcare practice leader Laura Madsen, will be published by Wiley on Sept. 4, 2012.

Rather than provide another technical manual on business intelligence, Madsen shares the five "tenets" of healthcare business intelligence, then explores them in-depth. The book offers tips for creating a BI team, identifies initial priorities, provides tools and techniques to get started and explains how to maintain support and momentum in a BI program.

Healthcare organizations house unique data with unique data requirements, such as those prescribed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as administrative mandates from the Department of Health and Human Services. The privacy and security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) further complicate how healthcare data is managed. Madsen encourages healthcare leaders to tread lightly to avoid mistakes in healthcare BI, but also encourages them to treat their data as an asset, not a liability.

Leaders who read "Healthcare Business Intelligence" will be able to:

Articulate the best practices of business intelligence and data warehousing for healthcare Assess their organizations' preparedness to adopt BI Create a shared corporate lexicon Operationalize a BI program Build supporting processes and infrastructures to support a BI program today and in the future Present the value proposition and return on investment (ROI) for approval Proactively market the BI program to stakeholders

Title: Healthcare Business Intelligence: A Guide to Empowering Successful Data Reporting and Analytics

Publisher: Wiley

Publication date: Sept. 4, 2012

For more information: http://healthcarebi-thebook.com ; http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118217802.html

Advance copies are available to news media upon request.

ABOUT LAURA MADSEN

Founder of the Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit and international keynote speaker on healthcare BI, Laura brings more than a decade of experience in BI and data warehousing for healthcare and a passion for engaging and educating the BI community. Laura leads the healthcare practice for Lancet, a leading BI consulting firm headquartered in Minneapolis, working with key accounts across the country in the provider, payer, and healthcare manufacturing markets. Laura is a frequent contributor to the healthcare channel on the BeyeNETWORK and is a BI blogger at Lancet.

ABOUT LANCET

As one of the leading MicroStrategy(R) partners in the world, Lancet helps IT professionals and business leaders define, build, manage and learn the discipline of Business Intelligence -- and excel at its application. More than 100 clients around the globe rely on Lancet for BI strategy, project execution, platform administration and training. More at: www.lancetsoftware.com .

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