Hospital Chain Uses Software to Detect Industry Trends
Sutter Health, a family of 26 not-for-profit hospitals in Northern California, is starting to rollout Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) software to make sense of structured and unstructured information, be it text, voice or video. Analysts at Sutter will be able to search email archives, web sites, scanned clippings and other sources to automatically extract business and health care trends out of that sea of data. Up to now they had to spend a lot of time just gathering information instead of analyzing it and turn it into usable insights.
Jim Harrison was recently named as head of a Business Intelligence group that includes two senior business intelligence analysts, several junior analysts, a strategic database administrator, and a market researcher. The team willl use Autonomy’s “clustering” technology not only to produce business intelligence reports, but also to eventually profile individuals with specific expertise within the organization. InformationWeek reports.
February 16, 2006 Related topics: IT & software