The Value of Agile Business Intelligence in Analyzing Mission Critical Healthcare Info

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About BCA

Cooperative of 36 community blood centers

Member centers provide 35% of the nation’s transfusion requirements

Focus on improving operations and business activities of member centers

Manages disaster response for all community blood centers

BCA

Regional Blood Centers

Hospitals

About LogiXML

Founded in 2000; focused on web-based BI

Headquartered in Mclean, VA High customer ratings in

Gartner 2011 BI Survey Over 700 customers

worldwide – including ISVs & SaaS companies

Challenge

Actionable Information to Improve Performance – improve data collection & benchmarking – information sharing for centers– address blood needs

Limited Resources– lean IT Staff– limited web development skills

Evaluated BI Solutions– some too static– per user fees

Solution: Collaborative Dashboard KPI’s and Metrics

– Benchmarking and Analytics– Real-time and Historical/Trending Information

Order Management – Quickly Spot Blood Shortages & Excess – Initiate Blood Transfers

Document Sharing and Discussion Forum– Role-based Security to Safeguard Information– Leverages full-text Microsoft Search

Serves 1,200+ users across the USA– Key Source of Blood Supply Data for HHS

Technical Profile

Collaborative BI Web Application: Logi Info – Analytics– Web Forms– Forum & Document Sharing

Accounting/ERP: Great Plains SL Database: SQL Server 2000

– Transactional – Datawarehouse

Data Feeds: Access, Excel, & CSV files– Data Files from Blood Centers

BCA Collaborative Dashboard

Demo

Menu of Apps & Analytics

Options

Center vs. Benchmark vs.

Historical Views

Budget vs. Actual

Collections

Automated vs. Manual

Collections

Collection Productivity

Collection Location

CollectionTrends

My Center vs. All

Collection by Centers

Collection Productivity

By Center Size

Daily Blood Supply

USA

BCA Region

My Center

BCA

Resource Sharing Web Form

Discussion Forum

Agile BI Development

BI App Studio

Transactional Data Sources(SQL, Excel, CSV, etc.)

BI Report Definitions

Web ServicesProvider

DataWarehouse

Web Brower

MetadataSummary Data

Raw Data

Internet orIntranet

Smartphone or TabletLogi

Engine

Results

For Blood Centers:– Improved Collection Productivity– Improved Collaboration and Best Practices Sharing

For USA Blood Supply:– Better Matching of Blood Needs– Improved Visibility Leading to More Action Time

For BCA: – Better Service to Blood Centers w/ Level Resources– Lower Operational and Administrative IT Costs

Future Plans

Dashboard 2.0– Updating look and feel as well menu flexibility

User-Driven Metrics & Analysis– User-Customizable Dashboard

Increased Real-time capabilities via web services BCA Mobile App

BCA www.bca.coop

LogiXML www.logixml.com