Abstract—
Interest in applications of Business Intelligence
(BI) in different areas of the economy has been growing from
year to year. In recent years, it has been increasing in Poland
as well. A relatively new area of using this systems is the
healthcare area. Intelligent techniques provide an effective
computational methods and robust environment for business
intelligence in the healthcare domain. It seems to be very important,
due to the fact, that much of the data storage in all
kinds of system used in healthcare organizations resides in proprietary
silos which makes access difficult [1].What is worth
noting using of BI systems is determined by the efficiency of the
intelligent techniques, methodologies and tools. This paper discusses
the essence of BI, characteristics of the healthcare sector
and potential applications of BI systems in the healthcare sector.
Also tools and examples of BI systems used in the sector
are presented in the paper.