title: Start small and build toward business intelligence.
abstract: To use business intelligence effectively, healthcare organizations should start small, align organizationally, and leverage success. Organizations should determine which measures they need and how to present them. Organizations should reinvest savings to continually improve.
authors.affiliation: MedeFinance, Dallas, USA. skirby@medefinance.com
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kirby
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Robertson
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000592:standards*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care