Healthcare facilities can use business intelligence systems to search for more efficiency in everything from accounting to HR and patient care to supply chain logistics, according to an article on the FacilityCare website.
Translating raw data into meaningful insights can be difficult, but more healthcare facilities are accomplishing the task with dashboards.
Dashboards offer essential information that can be tracked and monitored on a single screen. Some dashboards can automatically identify common variables to draw new and previously unseen connections, and are a way to home in on key prognostic indicators, the article said.
The technology is particularly useful in healthcare environments, where budgetary and management challenges coexist with patient care priorities and medical and technical considerations.