Creating Value: Unifying Silos into Public Health Business Intelligence

Creating Value: Unifying Silos into Public Health Business Intelligence

INTRODUCTION Through September 2014, federal investments in health information technology have been unprecedented, with more than 25 billion dollars in incentive funds distributed to eligible hospitals and providers. Over 85 percent of eligible United States hospitals and 60 percent of eligible providers have used certified electronic health record (EHR) technology and received Meaningful Use i...

Turning Artificial Intelligence into Business Value. Today

Creating business intelligence from course management systems

Purpose – This article seeks to address the interface between individual learning facilitators that use course management systems (CMS) data to support decision-making and course design and institutional infrastructure providers that are responsible for institutional business intelligence. Design/methodology/approach – The design of a data warehouse is proposed that draw data from institutional...

The Business Value of Business Intelligence

Historically, many data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have been IT-driven, and much of the focus within the industry has been on the technical aspects of delivering information to the BI user community. Having arrived at a point where many of the technical challenges and tradeoffs are at least well understood, attention has shifted toward expanding the ways in which BI ...

How Business Intelligence Creates Value

Assessing IT business value has long been recognized as a major challenge, stemming largely from the considerable variability in the role and contribution of IT. This study examines the business value associated with business intelligence (BI) systems, suggesting that business value assessment is largely contingent on system type and should consider its unique contribution. The study adopts a p...