OD Professional is once again revolutionizing eyecare practice management with the integration of the healthcare industry's forefront Business Intelligence (BI) solution: ActionTracker (SpeedMiner). Although new to ODProfessional, ActionTracker has been proven in leading healthcare institutions around the world since 2003.

BI rises to the challenge of a world that is swamped with data but starved for information. Almost every application produces reports yet most users already have too many reports with too much data. It's not clear that adding more reports adds any value since there is already a huge stack of existing reports that few people read, in fact. This is, often called the “where's Waldo problem” – once found, the answer is obvious. The challenge is finding the just right information when and where you need it.

ActionTracker brings three key benefits to the world of eyecare practice management:

• Seamless transparency – ActionTracker is “instant on” technology as it features embedded integration at the database level. Traditional BI requires significant administration and management and separate data storage and management, e.g., the data warehouse technologies found in huge enterprise environments. We see the value and challenge of BI when optometrists re-enter select report information into Excel spreadsheets – they are manually maintaining separate data to get the “where's Waldo” answers they need. When BI is embedded in the practice-management database, the power is unlocked without adding excess costs and management nightmares.

• Rich analytics – information at your fingertips becomes an easily- achieved reality with powerful visual tools for retrieving, analyzing and viewing data, as well as rapidly conducting various “what-if?” analyses in the real world of your own practice.
  
  
• Information at the point of action – with SpeedMiner you can quickly and easily create and deploy actionable information, such as richly visual real-time dashboards and alerts. Practices already have lots of “trailing indicators” such as financial data; what they urgently need is “leading indicators”, information that can be used immediately to take remedial action to change current outcomes.

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