Business Intelligence in Healthcare Industry

Business intelligence is a collection of decision support technologies for the enterprise aimed at enabling knowledge workers such as professionals to make better and faster decisions. Interest in implementation of business intelligence (BI) technologies in different sectors has been increasing from year to year. Recently it has found its tremendous demand in healthcare industry. There are advanced technologies that provide efficient methods and appropriate environment for implementation of BI in the healthcare sector. BI has a very important role in the healthcare industry due to the availability of data in diverse formats which makes its access difficult across different departments (For e. g. Some data regarding the customer details is with the admin dept. and some reports of test are with the concerned lab), this makes difficult to assemble and interpret data, but due to robust environment BI tools provide, the task has been made easy to a great extent.