How Can Business Intelligence Improve Healthcare?

 In the healthcare world, the term “big data” isn’t always cast in a positive light. Healthcare workers worry about being flooded by irrelevant information, resulting in alert fatigue and causing truly salient data to be overlooked. They worry that big data is just another term for too much data. In reality, this perception focuses too much on the “big” part of big data and fails to give credit to the advancements in today’s modern business intelligence solutions. These advanced tools help users analyze and sift through data — surfacing what’s relevant and making the work easier, smarter, and safer for both healthcare workers and their patients. Data dashboards are already being widely used in healthcare, but the industry should continue to incorporate more modern BI products as their value becomes increasingly apparent. Here are some major ways big data is already helping to change the healthcare industry for the better: insurance provider benefits, healthcare and hospital quality monitoring, streamlined emergency rooms, tailored patient healthcare. This may mean a reduction in unnecessary chest X-rays for asthma patients, as was the case for Texas’s Children’s Hospital. Business intelligence promises to not only improve patient care, but to also cut costs and streamline the care process for hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Big data is already having an impact, and as it continues to grow, it will fundamentally change the future of healthcare by providing timely, actionable, and important information when professionals need it. It won’t be overnight — given regulations and the slow pace of adoption in healthcare, it could take as long as a decade for big data’s full potential to be realized — but with every step toward big data, we get one step closer to a better world for both patients and doctors.

Reference: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/how-can-business-intelligence-improve-healthcare/