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HEALTHCARE BI PRACTICE LEADER NAMED BEYENETWORK'S HEALTHCARE CHANNEL EXPERT
Laura Madsen of Lancet Software offering insights into managing healthcare through Business Intelligence and data warehousing and has started writing a Lancet Blog on related issues.
TWIN CITIES - Does this sound like the latest talking head on the news channels, parsing the costs of the Obama healthcare plan?
The Obama administration has made some of statements about its intent to reform healthcare, but has offered few details of how it intends to complete this transformation... However, the barriers to EMR[Electronic Media Records} adoption are significant. First of all, estimates of costs for adopting EMR range from a few million to $60 million per hospital system. While the savings may be significant over time, it is still difficult for hospital systems, clinics or physicians to make the case for a capital investment during depressed economic times. The overall cost to implement EMR nationwide could easily dwarf the $19 billion earmark.
It's not, it's Lancet Software's Healthcare Practice Leader, Laura Madsen, writing her first article for healthcare business leaders and other readers of www.BeyeNETWORK.com. The instructive site is where Business Intelligence (BI), performance management, business integration, information quality, data warehousing and other subjects are routinely discussed for more than 250,000 readers.
Madsen was recently named BeyeNETWORK's Healthcare Channel Expert and will write an article every other month focusing on healthcare business challenges. Her articles will focus on how BI and data warehousing can strategically and tactically solve healthcare management and operations issues and enable organizations to effectively address the challenges they face.
NOW BLOGGING AT LANCETSOFTWARE.COM
Since February, Madsen also has been writing a regular BI blog for Lancet Software about related issues. Her topics have ranged from having a strong Data Governance program in place to assess return of BI investment to news about the recent TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) summit in Las Vegas. Also occasionally twittering at lbmadsen, Madsen will be sharing her 10-plus years of experience in the BI industry, where she has worked primarily in healthcare environments.
"My contributions to the BeyeNETWORK and on the Lancet blog will hopefully provide insights into why companies in all industries can benefit from a strong BI program, especially in the volatile economic environment that we're in today," Madsen says. "Making informed business decisions based on critical data points can dramatically improve the execution and performance levels throughout any organization, including healthcare."
About Business Needs and BI
According to the Gartner Group's 2008 CIO Technology profiles, BI adoption again ranked as the #1 priority (for three consecutive years now). And Aberdeen Group says that it expects BI will have the greatest impact on business over the next 2-5 years of the current technologies that companies might be considering.
About Laura Madsen, MS
Laura has helped many companies understand the value of their data. She served as Director of Business Intelligence leading an enterprise-wide BI project from conception to execution for a major pharmacy benefit management company. Having started and/or supported BI initiatives for more than a dozen companies, Laura has vast expertise on the subject. She holds a graduate degree in applied research with 10+ years of BI experience. Her current position with Lancet Software as Practice Leader utilizes her subject knowledge and experience in the healthcare field and other client areas.
About Lancet Software
Lancet Software is a professional services firm focused on Business Intelligence (BI) strategy, execution and support for companies that want to maximize their Return on Data®. Lancet's innovative and award-winning "open book" culture readily benefits its customers, who range from consumer goods, Internet, and health care to financial services, telecommunications, government and other industries.
Lancet was included in the Business Journal's 2008 Top 25 IT Consulting Firms and received a "Fast 50" award as one of the fastest growing private companies in Minnesota. A model Minnesota employer, Lancet's Open Book Culture and has earned five "Best Places to Work" awards from the Twin Cities business media, and a 2006 Minnesota Work-Life Champions Silver Award from The Center for Ethical Business Cultures. It also has achieved national recognition from The Principal Financial Group for its outstanding employee benefits. Business Intelligence clients include Best Buy, Premier Inc., and Land O'Lakes, Patterson Dental, Lunds Food Group, Remmele Engineering and others. www.lancetsoftware.com.
For more information - or to interview Laura Madsen about BI and Healthcare - please contact Martin Keller at 612-729-8585, or mkeller@mediasavantcom.com.