As we all know, today’s healthcare environment is changing and demands for accountability – from true outcomes to demonstrated, proven cost-effectiveness – are becoming more important each and every day. In the Mental-Behavioral Health field the focus has shifted away from mere processes and procedures towards actual outcomes and performance based measurements. In other words, there [...]

In Part 1 of this series the focus was on displaying the aging buckets by Provider, and by Carrier(Insurance) for the 0 – 30 day bucket. With aging metrics the visualization is typically using a standard bar or pie chart to convey the information. The focus of this blog will be to show a nontraditional [...]

Accounts receivable is a critical metric for every organization, but I have found in my experience in the healthcare industry there exists a strong focus on this particular metric all the way up to the executive level. Considering that we know what our data point will be (AR) we will now have to determine how [...]

Dashboards can provide wonderful insight into performance at an organization. Dashboards help manage goals, measure performance, and monitor key areas of operation. But the question remains, should your next dashboard be made public or limited to internal use only? Once upon a time, companies kept their data private, fearing that doing anything else meant giving [...]

Trending data can be a great way to predict and analyze the performance of any metric. There are many ways to represent data with a chart. However, the best chart type to display trending values is the line chart. Line charts are often seen as financial charts that are only useful to display upward and [...]

iDashboards recently attended the 2010 Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Conference in Las Vegas.  The show is designed to bring industry leaders and vendors together to exchange ideas and promote products around financial management for healthcare organizations.  iDashboards’ main focus was to better understand business intelligence (BI) trends in healthcare and to meet with software [...]

Pay for Performance is more than just a buzz word in healthcare. With the resolve of Obama Administration to bring cost savings and quality improvement initiatives to healthcare, it is imperative that healthcare organizations see the direct bottom-line impact based on their performance. The President has stressed that healthcare is about quality, not quantity. “Replicating [...]