Role of Power BI in Healthcare Sector | Creating Power BI Dashboards

Sulakshana Iyer
Softweb Solutions Inc.
3 min readMar 7, 2017

The healthcare industry has been transformed into a data-driven world now. Healthcare providers are also generating a lot of data from EMR, CRM, HMS, outpatient registrations, labs, pharmacy reports, claims, patient billing, memberships and more. Although there is a huge amount of data available, the insightful information they offer is less. This is where Power BI would be of great help.

What is Power BI

Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft. It gives you a unified view of your business data by allowing you to monitor the health of your business with live dashboards, create visual interactive reports with Power BI Desktop and also give access to your data on-the-go with Power BI Mobile applications.

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  • Introduction to Cortana Analytics Suite
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  • Benefits and business cases
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  • Q/A

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Role of Power BI in Healthcare sector

Healthcare providers can derive insights required to reduce costs, increase revenue, and improve patient care while adhering to the compliances and regulations by integrating Power BI. Moreover, Power BI can provide healthcare organizations greater visibility into their data and can collect greater insights for their key performance indicators (KPIs). This technology has a large potential to contribute in many areas of the healthcare industry.

With a Power BI dashboard, one can monitor hospital and healthcare quality indicators such as;

Above all, the characteristics of powerful data visualizations include everything from personalization, storytelling, impact, timeliness, comparisons, and connections.

There are some organizations hesitant to move to the cloud for storing all their information securely.

With on-premises gateways, you can keep your data fresh by connecting to on-premises data sources without the need of shifting your data. So, now with on-premises data sources keep your dashboard reports updated and easily accessible to your users on multiple types of devices.

Some of the benefits of Power BI for the Healthcare sector

  • Shows key data clearly
  • Indicates trends and patterns within the data
  • Increases the understanding of complex data
  • Makes data more accessible to key decision makers
  • Supports top medical executives to make decisions quickly
  • Conveys clinical insight effortlessly
  • Enables data to be managed easily for use across diverse departments

The use of Power BI in healthcare can help providers put the mounting data into context for physicians, executives, administrators, and more. It offers an economical method for communicating information to people across the healthcare organization while ensuring high-level data is represented in detail and in a controlled manner.

The final say

Thus, you need to keep in mind the appropriate key metrics and implement Power BI correctly. This will, without a doubt, help you to surpass the competition and deliver world class service to the patients.

What’s more, if you don’t have in-house data visualization capabilities, then choose to partner with a Power BI solution provider. We can assist you with your entire setup starting from planning and design to delivery. Also, post implementation, we are always at your available for any kind of support. Feel free to write to us if you have any questions about the significance of Power BI in the healthcare domain.

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Originally published at www.softwebsolutions.com on March 7, 2017.

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Sulakshana Iyer
Softweb Solutions Inc.

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