IT professionals within the payer side of healthcare (i.e. insurers, health plans, and benefit administrators) are constantly bombarded with requests for data about employers, providers, claims, and health plan members. IT decision makers facing these requests should explore Business Intelligence (BI) to better serve the analytical needs of their organizations.
Industry Pressures Create Deeper Analytic Needs
Healthcare payer organizations are under pressure to become more efficient. On one hand, the government, employers, and patients are pushing to stop the double digit premium increases of recent years. On the other hand, an aging population is raising the costs of providing healthcare services.
