Business Intelligence for Healthcare Surveillance by Raed AlHazme

Business Intelligence for Healthcare Surveillance by Raed AlHazme 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Business Intelligence (BI) systems are collections of tools that provide the ability to transform huge amount of data into Knowledge and, eventually, informed decisions. BI systems are nowadays are among the essential tools in many industries, such as banking and marketing. Many BI implementations have also been conducted in healthcare, and many of them have already shown significant positive results. This session will highlight the utilization of BI in the healthcare surveillance field. It will focus on a BI implementation that took place in one of the heath councils in the state of Florida. The speaker will start by covering the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of the council prior to the project initial. He will then walk through the different project phases until the system development completion. The speaker will also highlight the key system components and provide a number of demonstrations to illustrate their functionality and benefits.