# Questions about hospital business intelligence

> What hospital BI is, which BI is best for hospitals, the difference between BI and reports, when to replace spreadsheets with BI and what to assess before choosing.

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Questions about the concept of BI applied to hospitals. The full guide is in [hospital BI](https://clichealth.com.br/en/hospital-bi).

## What is hospital BI?

Hospital BI is the set of data, rules and dashboards that turns what is recorded in the hospital information system into information for decisions: revenue, margin, denials, costs, volume and cash. Good hospital BI delivers the same number to everyone, with a clear source and kept up to date. See the [hospital BI](https://clichealth.com.br/en/hospital-bi) guide.

## Which BI is best for hospitals?

There is no single best for everyone: the best BI is the one that reads your hospital's information system well, uses calculation rules that match the accounting records, protects health data and is maintained by people who understand hospital management. Compare options using the criteria in [what to assess when choosing hospital BI](https://clichealth.com.br/en/hospital-bi#what-to-assess-when-choosing-hospital-bi). If your hospital runs Tasy, Clic Health was built for that scenario.

## What is the difference between BI, a dashboard and a report?

A report answers a fixed question. A dashboard brings together several KPIs on one topic on a single screen, with filters. BI is the whole: prepared data, calculation rules, dashboards and navigation between them. See [hospital dashboard](https://clichealth.com.br/en/hospital-bi/hospital-dashboard).

## When should a hospital replace spreadsheets with BI?

When closing the KPIs takes days, when there are different versions of the same number, when analysis depends on one person or when the board cannot drill down to the cause of a variance. The article [Spreadsheets or BI](https://clichealth.com.br/en/blog/spreadsheets-or-bi-in-hospitals) discusses the signs and the costs of each path.

## Does BI require a dedicated IT team?

It depends on the model. BI built in-house needs someone to maintain loads, rules and dashboards. With a solution like Clic Health, the Clic Health team maintains the loads and dashboards; the hospital needs IT during implementation (server and read-only user) and someone from controllership to validate the numbers.

## Is hospital BI useful for a small hospital?

Yes. Size changes data volume, not the questions: small hospitals also need to know margin by payer, open accounts and results against budget. In smaller hospitals, the gain usually comes from the time saved on manual closing.

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