This document discusses building health information systems using business intelligence tools like Power BI. It provides an overview of Power BI capabilities for connecting to data sources, simplifying data processing, and producing interactive reports. It also outlines WDGPH's business intelligence model including data extraction, transformation, loading, and report building in Power BI Desktop. Some challenges discussed are meeting privacy, accessibility, and personnel requirements. Benefits highlighted are up-to-date, flexible, visual, accessible and collaborative reporting.
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Power BI Information Session .pptx
1. Building Health Information
Systems using Business
Intelligence
Michael Whyte, Health Promotion Specialist
Jennifer MacLeod, Manger, Health Analytics
Ehsan Ullah, IT Guy
2. Webinar Objectives
• Introduction
• Demonstration of Current Interactive Reports
• What is Business Intelligence?
• Our Internal Framework
• Unforeseen Challenges
• Benefits
• Short Demonstration – Building a Report
3. Power BI – Power in Visualizing Data
• Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that
deliver insights throughout an organization.
• Through Power BI, one can…
• Connect to hundreds of data sources
• simplify data processing
• drive ad hoc analysis
• Produce beautiful reports
5. Microsoft Self-Service BI
• Enhanced Excel spreadsheet capabilities
• Add-ins provide rich and integrated BI capabilities:
• Power Query – data acquisition and
processing
• Power Pivot – data modeling
6. SS-BI Model Components
• Information Management (Data
Cleaning, Data Model Development)
• Simple Data Analytics (pivot
tables/graphs)
• Statistical Analysis
(Poisson/Logistic Regression)
• Dynamic Visualization (Dashboards)
8. SS-BI
Project
Options
Independent Project
Development and Dynamic
Report Writing
Collaborative Intra-
Organizational Project
Development and Dynamic
Report Sharing
Collaborative Inter-
Organizational Project
Development and Dynamic
Report Sharing
Public Access to Dynamic
Reports
9. WDGPH’s Business Intelligence
Model
Data Source
•SQL Server
•Excel Spreadsheet
•CSV/Text
•Many more…
Extract-
Transform-Load
(ETL) Tool
•Power Query
•R
•STATA
•SPSS
•Etc.
Power BI Desktop
•Import Data Model
from ETL tool
•Build Interactive
Visualizations
•Report Formatting
Network: On
Premise (Report
Server)
•On premises report
sharing
•Password protected
•Beneficial for sharing
sensitive information
Network: Cloud
(Pro & Premium)
•Public Reporting
•Embedded Reports
•Beneficial for sharing
with a wide audience
10. Power BI – Public Reporting
Depends on organizational
need
# of users who are building and sharing
reports
# of users consuming reports (intra-
organizational vs. inter-)
Processing and storage requirements
Pro vs. Premium
Pro – Individual level account (self-
managed)
Premium – Dedicated Organization
Capacity (IT managed)
11. Cost – Public Reporting
All package costs are recurring for public
reporting
Pro level accounts are relatively inexpensive
~ $12 CAN per user/month
Packages vary for
Premium depending on
need
Opted for a Tier based model – 300
refreshes/hour
Cost: ~ $1,200 per month but can
be upwards of $7,000 per month
12. Power BI
Premium
Dedicated
capacity for
reports
Increases the
performance of
reports
Can be
allocated and
employed at
your discretion
Larger storage capacity
for storing data and
reports
Packaged with
Power BI
Report Server
An internal
reporting server
Securely share
reports
internally and
externally
Allows for the embedding
of reports in web
applications
13. Personnel Requirements
• IT Department
• Server Administration (Building the server, security, assigning rights
and roles)
• SQL Administration
• Web Developer (to create a web application)
• Communications Department
• Design, look & feel of reports
• AODA compliance
• Data Analysts/Epidemiologist/Health Promotion Specialist
• Report development
• Training staff and building capacity
15. PHIPA
• Patient privacy is number one priority
• Sharing reports publicly means storing data on outside
servers
• Power BI Servers are PHIPA Compliant
• However, best practice to suppress and aggregate counts
prior to model import into Power BI
16. AODA
• Due to the nature of Interactive Reports, AODA is a
challenge
• Some features in Power BI to improve accessibility
• “Alt-Text” – static descriptions of graphics
• Colour Blind Friendly themes available online
• Software – Not AODA compliant, HOWEVER,
• Can provide a static summary document to share main points
• Provide data upon request
This then meets AODA standards.
20. Other Benefits
1. Low cost alternative to Tableau, with similar functionality
2. Free desktop download
3. Community Driven (Bottom up, rather than top down
updates)
4. Print to PDF in Desktop and Online Portal
5. Mobile-Reports (Premium Only)
23. References
1. Microsoft (2017). Power BI Pro & Power BI Premium: Flexibility to choose the
licensing best for you and your organization. Microsoft Power BI Blog.
Retrieved from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-pro-power-
bi-premium-flexibility-to-choose-the-licensing-best-for-you-and-your-
organization/
2. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Power-BI-Report-Server-
pricing/td-p/257441
3. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017-pricing
4. http://www.powerbiclickthrough.com/demos/powerbipremium
24. "Before our dashboard the Stay Sharp Program was always a
few steps behind in tracking our data... We were using
valuable staff time to hand count tracking sheets, and fumbling
around in excel to try and ensure accurate counts of products
and clients. The dashboard incorporates my provincial
reporting requirements, as well as common
questions that are asked about the program, and developed
the report around them. Now I have real-time tracking and
am able to create reports in hours that used to take me days.”
- Becki Linder, Harm Reduction Outreach Coordinator, ARCH
25. Basic SS-BI Computer
Configurations
1. DESKTOP:
Microcomputer with a 64 bit Central Processing
Unit (CPU) and a 64 bit Microsoft Version 10
Operating System (OS) that includes 4 – 8
Gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM)
2. NETWORK : ON PREMISE
SQL Server 2017 with Assurance
3. NETWORK: CLOUD
Online Cloud Service Contract (Power BI Pro/Microsoft)
Editor's Notes
Introduce ourselves
Jen - What this presentation will cover
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Power BI for Office 365 is a complete self-service BI solution delivered through Excel and Office 365 that provides data discovery, analysis, and visualization capabilities to identify deeper business insights from data in Excel.
With both Excel and Power BI for Office 365, you can give everyone in your organization a powerful new way to work with data. In Excel, you can now discover, analyze, and visualize data like never before to find valuable business insights.
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As models are built (e.g., census, intellihealth) they will become our data source consistently
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The Health Analytics Team has transitioned to sharing information using online interactive reports. There are key advantages to sharing information in this new format:
Up to Date
The information can be quickly updated as data sources are refreshed. Paper reports often became outdated shortly after being printed. Flexible
This format allows for flexibility. Interactive reports can be customized by end users to meet their own specific needs simply by choosing filters of interest. Users might be interested in seeing the information in a particular geographic area or within a certain age group and be able to build a report that meets their needs in this way.
Visual
The visualizations of the data support end users in identifying patterns and trends of interest. The information is visualized in maps, charts and infographics. These formats enhance the ability to search for and identify specific information such as a trend across time (months or years) that is moving in a concerning direction. These trends are used by community partners for evidence-based decision making and strategic planning.
Accessible
Interactive reports are quickly and easily shared. Sharing is customized so that interactive reports with sensitive information are made available to specific groups of people for whom it’s intended. Most interactive reports are openly shared to the general public.
Collaborative
Access to shared data results in increased opportunities for collaboration.
Jen
The development and use of BI has had a noticeable, positive impact on the work of the Health Analytics team
EFFICIENCY:
Increases the efficiency of sharing, even across members of the same team
Able to segment work for staff
This allows for greater participation of staff
Which eliminates huge bottlenecks. For example, Epis tend to be a rare resource
QUALITY:
Our outputs are also of higher quality
Can quickly look for and see patterns and trends that can then be analyzed by Epis
Work done in using our BI tools is easily seen and understand because it’s highly visual
Epis can confidently take a project that was started by another member of the team and begin to work on sophisticated statistical analysis because they are reassured by seeing and understanding all previous steps
ADAPTABILITY:
We build data models that are appropriate to the work we want to do
We have the ability to more easily combine across sectional surveys to produce trends over time (e.g., CCHS)
Dynamic links between the data model and data sources can be updated and will change visualizations (checking still needs to happen but fine tuning rather than rebuilding)
For example, the 2015 CCHS is expected to be dramatically different in content – we will build a set of queries that will modify the new data source to make it compatible with our data model
Can provide information by our PHU/community geography and also adapt to LHIN boundaries – this is valuable to us because of the changing landscape
EXPERTISE:
More people are working with the data – increases expertise and capacity
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Collaborative Project, taken few years to put together
Forefront of this technology – learning everything ourselves
Grass roots endeavor
Tim
Took a systems approach
We needed the technical resources to build these reports
Personnel – right training, right skills
Audience – provide feedback, other informational needs
Critical part in systems based approach – support from Colleagues – getting buy in and advice from communications and IT (integral part)
