Business intelligence may hold tremendous promise but it can’t answer healthcare’s challenges unless it’s built on the solid foundation of a clinical data warehouse. Learn the definition of business intelligence, why a clinical data warehouse is needed for any healthcare BI strategy, the various options in data warehousing, which one is most effective for hospitals and the industry and why.

1. Why Your Healthcare Business Intelligence
Strategy Can’t Win without a Data Warehouse
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2. Healthcare Business Intelligence
Healthcare is changing rapidly and so is the
industry’s need for analytics and business
intelligence, which brings up a problem:
What exactly IS healthcare business intelligence?
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What is your business intelligence strategy?
Regardless of your organization’s answer, that strategy has one
common and critical element: the need for a fundamental and
foundational clinical data warehouse.

3. Where Healthcare Business Intelligence
and Analytics Stand Today
U.S. healthcare is shifting from fee-for-service
to fee-for-value, yet without the
historical investment in analytics
technology so common in other
industries and so essential to success.
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www.healthcatalyst.com ‘‘The biggest flaw of all is the lack of a documented BI
strategy, or the use of a poorly developed or socialized one.
- Gartner, Inc.

4. Understanding the Clinical Data
Warehouse and BI Tools
Data Warehouse
INTERNAL SOURCES
EHR systems
Costing systems
Patient feedback
Clinical feedback
and others…
EXTERNAL SOURCES
State Government
Federal Government
Mortality Data
Cancer Registries
and others…
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provide results that leads to understanding,
insight and action.
Data will come from multiple sources
The utility of a well-designed EDW is nearly
limitless.

5. Three Key Benefits That BI Realizes
with a Clinical Data Warehouse
Addressing top hospital concerns with a comprehensive and
reliable healthcare EDW provides three key benefits.
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1. Financial Performance
2. Patient safety
3. Outcomes
4. Healthcare reform
* 2012 - American College of Healthcare Executive’s (ACHE) annual survey

6. Enabling a More Efficient, Scalable
Reporting Process
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EDW
BENEFITS
A healthcare EDW streamlines and
scales the process of determining
the categories of healthcare data
needed to track progress toward
strategic goals.
Texas Children’s Hospital in
Houston, the nation’s largest
children’s hospital, has significantly
improved efficiencies with EDW
information delivery.

7. Ensuring Consistent Data That
Everyone Can Trust
A healthcare EDW establishes a
single source of truth, enables
healthcare analytics and serves
as a foundation for developing
and maintaining a data
governance program.
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2
EDW
BENEFITS

8. Enabling Meaningful, Targeted
Quality Improvement
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Multi-disciplinary teams from across clinical, technical, financial,
quality and performance excellence departments can use the EDW
to identify opportunities for improvement.
See North Memorial Health Care example.
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EDW
BENEFITS

9. Getting the Best Clinical Data
Warehouse for Healthcare
Health Catalyst’s Late-Binding™ Data Warehouse is our architectural
model for analytics in healthcare. The Late-Binding™ architecture
avoids the pitfalls of early binding architectures and has been
successfully implemented by several renowned health care providers
across the country.
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10. Benefits of The Late-Binding™
platform architecture
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business rules so clinicians have time to review and revise data,
form hypotheses, and determine optimal analytic uses.
The Late-Binding™ model accelerates time-to-value allowing
data warehouse to be launched in weeks vs. years.
(See Indiana University Health for 90 day example)
Late-Binding™ data warehouses are highly scalable and
adaptable for problem solving and quality improvement,
especially within dynamic healthcare organizations.

11. Conclusion
Organizations and their leaders can
harness the power of an EDW to
improve every aspect of providing
quality healthcare services.
‘‘ The value of the integrated EDW is
high for organizations whose leaders
grab hold of it with both hands.
- Gartner's 2014 report
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12. Link to original article for a more in-depth discussion.
Why Your Healthcare Business Intelligence Strategy Can’t Win
without a Data Warehouse
More about this topic
4 Options for Choosing the Best Healthcare Analytics Solutions (executive report)
Dale Sanders, Senior Vice President of Strategy
Databases and Data Warehouses in Healthcare: A Comparative Review
Drew Cardon, Data Architect
Integrating Source Systems into a Healthcare Data Warehouse
A Success Story from Indiana University Health
Why Healthcare Data Is Difficult to Manage
Dan LeSueur, Vice President of Client and Technical Operations
The Best Data Collection Tools: Why Excel and Access Are Not The Answer
Eric Just, Vice President, Technology
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13. Other Clinical Quality Improvement Resources
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Best Practice EDW Award Winners: Stanford and Health Catalyst
Also by Paul Horstmeier
Paul Horstmeier brings 25 years of Fortune 500 and small business
operations and general management experience to Health Catalyst.
He co-founded HB Ventures and filled senior executive roles at HB
Ventures portfolio companies. Within Hewlett-Packard, Mr.
Horstmeier launched and grew three different businesses, including
co-founding HP's commercial e-commerce business which later
expanded to include the management of the data systems and infrastructure for
marketing operations across the company. As Vice President of HP.com, he
headed up a 700-person organization which was awarded nearly every industry
award for quality and innovation during his tenure.
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