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Case Study: Analyzing Healthcare Data in Power BI

Practice Power BI with our healthcare case study. Analyze data, uncover efficiency insights, and build a dashboard.

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In healthcare, improving efficiency while maintaining high-quality patient care is a top priority.

Use Power BI to Analyze Healthcare Data

In this Power BI Case study, you’ll explore a real-world dataset to uncover hospital efficiency insights for a fictional consulting company called HealthStat.

Leverage Your DAX Skills

You’ll analyze attributes impacting the patient length of stay (LOS) and cost and work to identify factors contributing to hospital differences. You’ll leverage your DAX skills to create measures and generate insightful visualizations.

Create a Healthcare Dashboard

To finish off, you’ll bring it all together in a sophisticated business dashboard to communicate insights for the HealthStat team. This case study gives you a chance to practice a range of Power BI skills, working with real-world data.
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  1. 1

    Healthcare Analysis with Power BI

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    To kick off this case study, you’ll bring the data into Power BI and connect your data model. You’ll learn about measuring efficiency in healthcare, and after a quick check-up on the dataset content, you’ll get started with some initial exploratory analytics. Then, you’ll leverage your DAX skills to create calculated measures and columns.

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    Healthcare Analysis with Power BI
    50 xp
    Healthcare efficiency measures
    100 xp
    Data import and overview
    100 xp
    Hospitals overview
    100 xp
    Analysis of total discharges
    100 xp
    Analysis of length of stay
    100 xp
    Initial comparison of hospitals
    100 xp
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    Analyzing Hospital Performance and Benchmarking

    Roll up your sleeves and scrub in—it’s time to get operating on some insights! This chapter is all about identifying hospital performance outliers and revealing what attributes most influence length of stay and cost per patient discharge. Along the way, you’ll sharpen your DAX skills by building some more complex measures and calculated tables.

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    Creating a dynamic dashboard

    In this final chapter, you’ll focus on building your final dashboard into a cohesive and interactive report. You’ll incorporate the HealthStat branding for an appealing display, optimize user-friendly navigation features, and close off by adding a dynamic title.

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Lyndsay Girard HeadshotLyndsay Girard

Analytics Consultant, Halton Healthcare Services Corp

Lyndsay Girard is a highly skilled analytics consultant with Halton Healthcare Services Corp. She has over 15 years of experience in hospital analytics, utilizing BI tools and advanced analytical methods to drive data-driven decisions and transformative change. Lyndsay holds a Master’s of Science degree in Epidemiology from McGill University and is passionate about helping learners grow their analytics skills and bring their careers to the next level! When not delving into data, Lyndsay enjoys weightlifting and wilderness camping adventures.
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