[chai-t] Re: May meeting wrap-up
- From: "TIM MOORE" <tim.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:23:26 +1000
Hi William, good for me too.
Tim Moore
Barwon Health
Sent from my iPad
On 23/05/2012, at 1:47 PM, "Rose William" <William.Rose@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Tracey has kindly pointed out the clash with the upcoming HDSS forum on 15
> June: my guess is that many of us will be going to that to know what is
> expected post July 1.
>
> I don't think I can handle two events in one day -- I think it might be
> better to reschedule to the following week on 22 June. Does this work better
> or worse for anyone?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> William Rose
> Business Intelligence Manager
> Information Management
>
> +61 3 9656 5231 | Level 8, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002
>
>
> From: Rose William
> Sent: Monday, 21 May 2012 5:11 PM
> To: 'chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: May meeting wrap-up
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks again to Jenny Smith for organising and hosting last Friday's meeting.
> It would appear that a nice view and better provisions do help in rallying
> the troops, too!
>
> It was good to see how the Mercy are rolling out Qlikview and how it can be
> used: I am still trying to work out how we might use it in an environment
> with a lot of existing Crystal reports, and recently some cubes.
>
> Next month's meeting is 15th of June, currently at 3pm at Peter Mac.
>
> Peter Davey suggested we try to get someone from Microsoft to demo the key
> features of SQL 2012, as there are quite a few hospitals doing the Sharepoint
> + PerformancePoint + PowerPivot + SQL 2012 as their next phase.
>
> If we do this, and I think it would be good, my preference is to get them
> (Microsoft) to tailor their spiel a bit: previously I've gone to longish
> presentations from them about "BI" only to hear about a bunch of stuff that's
> not really relevant to health (e.g. clickstream analysis, data centre
> licences). Because I'm not too sure they will be able to do this from their
> pre-sales team, it might be worth going to a partner.
>
> At the DG2012 conference I had a good chat to Nadav Rayman, who works for
> BizData -- a Microsoft partner that do BI work, and like to sponsor health
> conferences. To add to general SQL Server knowledge, they also distribute
> Predixion Insight, a predictive analytics package that is built on Excel 2012
> / PowerPivot / Analysis Services, and it makes it somewhat easier to use the
> association, classification and regression features.
>
> I can have a talk to Nadav to see if he can do a health-focussed Microsoft BI
> / analytics demo to show of some of the new features. He is a technical
> person, rather than just a salesman, so it should be a bit more detailed. Or
> we can go straight to Microsoft (Chris Vidutto / Simon Kos) to ask them to
> suggest someone.
>
> An alternative is if one of you who are planning to move to this technology
> soon wants to work something up in house, we can see the tool with realistic
> data, and without the vendor. I think this worked really well last Friday
> with Jenny's Qlikview demo, so any volunteers most welcome.
>
> Some other topics: I've had an initial crack at the CHADx coding, and come up
> with a bunch of rules and even more questions. I'm keen to share this work
> with the group to get your advice on some of the issues and also to see where
> it might be useful to others. We should also know a bit more about ABF, but
> the pressure is off there now that DH are going to continue with existing
> funding models largely unchanged for next year.
>
> Other topics also welcome!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> William Rose
> Business Intelligence Manager
> Information Management
>
> +61 3 9656 5231 | Level 8, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002
>
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