Interface for Smarter Healthcare Systems

Cognos Environment

After experimenting with visualization using IBM Many Eyes Tool, the next level of sophistication involves setting up a Cognos Environment. These of course would involve setting up all the required software and then configuring the Cognos Server to allow for users to create visualization widgets.

The following PDF contains four references where the IBM Cognos product was used to help Healthcare customers.

Mercury Medical is a healthcare manufacturer that improves reporting and analysis with IBM Cognos Express:

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/ytc03190caen/YTC03190CAEN.PDF

This link does a lengthy description of why one should use Dashboards to display healthcare data. The PDF is mostly text but it has some small screen shots on page 9:

Finally, this is a generic Marketing flyer that describes the value proposition of Cognos applied to Healthcare as well as the Smarter Planet initiative:

http://chriscarroll.com/Industry_files/IBM%20Healthcare%20Solutions%20Brief.pdf.

Case Studies

Case studies can be found at: www.ibm.com/industries/healthcare.