See data from your MEDITECH EHR in a whole new way.

Paired with Data Repository, Microsoft Power BI is the reporting platform you've been waiting for.

Microsoft's Power BI data visualization software services and apps produce interactive, information-rich reports and dashboards that let you tell a story with your data. Experience agile report development not just from IT, but analysts and business experts from across your organization.

With Power BI, everyone gets visually engaging and dynamic reports that instantly respond as users interact with them. Microsoft Power BI provides business, operational, and clinical analytics for MEDITECH hospitals, large and small. 

Learn how Northeastern Vermont Regional Healthcare uses Power BI for their business and clinical analytics.

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What makes Power BI better than other analytics tools?

• Ease of use: Agile information sharing Power BI Desktop makes data modeling and report design easy. Quickly design and share reports that let your users easily filter, sort, and analyze information. 
• Cost: Lower total cost of ownership Power BI Pro licenses start at $10 per user from Microsoft. Power BI Desktop lets power users design and share their reports in no time.
• Flexibility: Use information from Data Repository of course, but Power BI lets you bring in data from other databases, flat files, Office documents, cloud-based services, you name it.
• Decentralized reporting: Share organizational data from the bottom-up - with the right data models in place, anyone can design and share reports. Power BI lets you empower departments and users to share information directly with everyone.

 Watch how responsive and easy to use Power BI can be.

How can we help you with Power BI?

Data architecture

It all starts with the data model. MEDITECH Data Repository's database design presents analysts and data visualization tools with unique challenges. Let us apply our expertise developing SQL Server-based reports for DR to your information needs, starting with the most efficient data modeling techniques to make Power BI report design a snap.

Data transformation

Data in its native format often needs to be modified or transformed into something more user friendly. Power BI includes built-in data transformation tools that allow us to change data formats, clean-up or "scrub" formatting or other parts of the dataset that you don't need to include, or even add custom columns. These tools are especially helpful not just with MEDITECH DR data, but with other data sources, whether from other applications, flat files, or cloud-based information. We can help you optimize your data, whatever the source.

Report design

Power BI has dozens of visual display options and controls that let you bring your data story to life. And with Microsoft's AppSource, we have access to hundreds of visualizations created by other users and organizations. With so many options, report design is a matter of matching the right data with the right visual to most effectively present your information. We can help you design your own reports, or do all the work for you - whatever your needs.

Workspaces and apps

Once reports are designed and shared with the Power BI service, you have an impressive array of options for managing who can access or modify them, schedule automatic data refreshes, or even manage a deployment pipeline of report development from staging to production. It's work to manage and maintain your report infrastructure, and we can help you plan, deploy, and maintain reports across your organization. 

Training

Want to learn the basics of Microsoft's Power BI platform, or dive in to report design with Power BI Desktop? Be sure to check out Power BI Fundamentals live online training class. 

More Power BI resources

• Our Power BI blogs from the Acmeware Advisor
• What is Power BI? - a great launching point from Microsoft. Read the sections on Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service.
• Watch this overview video from Guy in a Cube (Power BI experts at Microsoft). It’s a firehose of information, but in 20 minutes will give you an idea start to finish how Power BI works.
• Star schema principles from Microsoft: these apply to not just Power BI, but any analytics platform in general. 
• From Data Science Central: How is Power BI being used in healthcare?

Case Study: Northeastern Vermont Regional Healthcare