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HBI, Horizon Business Insight is McKesson's business intelligence solution for hospitals and health systems.  HBI's design and technology are the reasons why HBI is the industry-leading business intelligence solution.  We'll discuss some of the specifics of this further below, plus some backgorund.

McKesson's roots in business intelligence go back almost 20 years, to the release of TRENDSTAR's EpiTREND on-line report viewer.  Subsequent development efforts have gone through five generations to bring us to HBI.  You will not find a more experienced or successful group and product when it comes to handling hospital data.

HBI design objectives tackled a combination of requirements deemed important based on prior business intelligence efforts and the competitive landscape:
  • Browser based solution for ease of deployment
  • Capable of being managed and populated using business analyst staff
  • Intuitive enough that web users can figure it out
  • Capacity to handle millions of records, to the patient level and beyond
  • Able to handle data from any source
  • Ability to update on any basis, from occasional to throughout the day, even requesting data as needed 
  • Open SQL database access for authorized "power users"
In addtion to offering a flexible business intelligence solutiuon, McKesson has also embarked on a strategy to build HBI into practically all of its major product offerings.  The McKesson standard content has been a huge success, providing a turnkey business intelligence solution and still offering the opportunity to customize and build additonal content.

To summarize, in a field crowded with competitors, HBI stands head and shoulders above the rest.