All Healthcare Stories

  • Tableau Community

    Data helps communities—and comedians—make sense of the AHCA

    Ben Jones March 14, 2017
    Data helps communities—and comedians—make sense of the AHCA

  • 4 Ways Data is Improving Healthcare Operations

    Andy De February 15, 2017

     As healthcare providers adopt new practices to align with the value-based care paradigm and enterprise business objectives alike, they are critically challenged with implementing repeatable processes to improve supply chain efficiency, revenue cycle management, and clinical productivity. Here are four ways data is improving healthcare operations.

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    Empowered Teams, Empowered Care

    Michelle Wallace January 14, 2015
    In the world of healthcare, there are a lot of moving parts. The industry is multi-faceted, and employs people from a wide range of specialties. Michael Thurston is an analyst for the human resources (HR) department at Intermountain Healthcare. While not a traditional healthcare story, his tale is equally important. After all, his work is all about empowering a workforce—a workforce, in this case, that provides care to thousands of patients.
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    Embracing Data-Driven Dashboards at Seattle Children's Hospital

    Diane Camber September 11, 2014
    Reports were one-dimensional and came out monthly. Things changed 3 years ago when the pediatric hospital adopted Tableau as a platform for data driven development.

  • An Innovative Approach to Improving Healthcare Outcomes

    Morgan Wierleski July 21, 2014

    Changes in the delivery of healthcare continues to be a leading subject throughout the country. A few Healthcare organizations are using innovative tools, such as Tableau Software, to better understand and react in order to improve healthcare outcomes. Improvement in health outcomes is based on providing better quality care at a reduced cost while still maintaining profitable operations in order to keep hospital and clinic doors open.There are multiple ways that healthcare organizations approach this – sometimes by reducing a patient’s length of stay. However, this can lead to a patient needing to be re-admitted for an unresolved medical issue. Are the long term costs of such an approach more costly than the short-term gains?

  • How Illinois’ largest healthcare system transformed patient safety—and how you can, too

    Today’s guest blogger is Slalom Consulting, who is just as excited to be at the Gartner BI Summit in Las Vegas next week as we are. Will you be there too? Then don’t forget to stop by booth #217 to talk data with Tableau, or check out Slalom Consulting at booth #115.