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Business Intelligence - Intelligent Business
In today's competitive business world Business Intelligence is perceived as being one of the best ways for a company to use technology to help improve management, decision making and sustainable growth. But what exactly is BI and how can it be used in the business of retail pharmacy?
Most companies collect a large amount of data from their business operations. The term Business Intelligence represents the tools and systems that can be used in the strategic planning process of the company. These systems allow a company to gather, store, access and analyze company data to aid in decision making in a timely and usable manner. Generally these systems will illustrate business intelligence in the areas of customer profiling, customer support, market research, market segmentation, product profitability, statistical analysis, inventory and distribution analysis to name a few. Business Intelligence systems can provide historical, current and predictive analysis of business operations. Whereas standard reporting presents the user with a static view of data, BI reports allow the user to interact with report for instance by drilling down and querying further into a set of financial figures.
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Pharmacy profession embraces the Facebook generation
9th of July
Medical software company Helix Health is to sponsor the development of an e-learning package, designed by a student based at the Royal College of Surgeons, which has the aim of boosting how pharmacists can use IT to improve patient outcomes. The web-based, interactive e-learning package – triggered to reflect how students familiar with social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo use the web – will become an integral tool in the delivery of undergraduate courses to students as of the 2008-2009 academic year.
View the complete article at Silicon Republic.com
New wave of healthcare provision
23rd May 2008
Developments in the use of biosensors mean that doctors may soon be able to monitor injuries and illness from remote locations.Compact, wireless and power-efficient body sensors that allow doctors to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely are a step closer, thanks to new research from Queen’s University Belfast.
The use of biosensors attached to the body for health monitoring is not new. However, antennas that enable such devices to be linked together efficiently on a patient’s body without wires are currently too uncomfortable to wear for a long time, because they need to be large in order to maximise the strength of the signal being received.
View the complete article on the Irish Medical Times website
Irish GP's not making the most of IT
9th May 2008
A new EU report on the use of IT in GP practices across Europe shows that Ireland has a lot of catching up to do.A new EU study shows that Ireland is just average when it comes to using information technology (IT) in GP practices, with single-GP practices rating particularly badly. Compared to the other countries in the EU 27, Ireland also scores slightly below the European average rates when it comes to infrastructure.
View the complete article on the Irish Medical Times website
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