Healthcare
Daily capacity with one cut-off and role-based views
Daily huddles on one capacity picture — beds, staffing, and flow on the same clock.
- Operating since 2012
- Microsoft Power BI specialists
- NDA-ready data handling
- Fixed-scope first releases
- Independent — not affiliated with Microsoft
Table of contents
01 · Context
The situation
Regional healthcare provider · Healthcare
A regional provider ran capacity conversations from several operational systems. Bed, staffing, discharge, and appointment views refreshed on different clocks.
Escalation meetings started with arguments about which feed was current — not about patients waiting or staff gaps.
Leaders needed a daily model: demand, beds, staffing, and flow — patient-safe aggregates, role-based views, and a cut-off everyone trusts.
02 · Solution
What we built
A capacity BI solution with a shared clock, role views, and an exception queue for the huddle.
Common cut-off engine
Every feed is stamped to the same reporting moment so “as of” means the same thing in every visual.
Role-aware capacity board
Ops leaders, unit managers, and support roles see the slice they need — not a dump of everything.
Data-quality strip
If a feed is late or incomplete, the board says so — instead of silently showing yesterday as today.
Daily capacity huddle
- Beds vs demand
- Staffing gaps
- Flow exceptions with owners
Feed health
- Cut-off status by source
- Late/missing feed alerts
- Safe aggregates for leadership
Data sources
- Bed and occupancy feeds
- Staffing roster extracts
- Appointment and discharge events
Connectors
- Azure SQL
- Power Query
- Workspace RLS
Model design
Facts aligned to one reporting cut-off; minimum necessary fields; no row-level PHI in executive aggregates. Import so huddle latency stays predictable.
03 · Process
How we delivered
From the real meeting to a live report — with checkpoints, not a big reveal at the end.
- 01
Discovery with clinical + ops + IG
Agreed minimum fields and what must never appear on a shared screen.
- 02
Cut-off workshop
Picked the clock the huddle will trust — and stuck to it in the model.
- 03
Build, UAT in live huddles
Shipped a thin first board, sat in huddles, tightened exception rules from real use.
- 04
Secure handoff
Role matrix, refresh runbook, and who owns feed failures.
04 · Technologies
Stack and why we chose it
Tools that serve the report — not a shopping list of buzzwords.
Power BI
Huddle boards and role-filtered views.
Why: Fast enough for a morning stand-up; security roles map to how the hospital already organizes access.
Azure SQL staging
Cut-off aligned tables before Import.
Why: Keeps heavy prep off clinical systems during peak hours.
Row-level security
Unit and role boundaries in the same report.
Why: One app, different rows — without emailing ten workbook variants.
05 · Challenges
What got hard — and how we fixed it
Real delivery friction, not a polished success-only story.
Challenge
Feeds arrived minutes apart; “live” meant different things to different teams.
Resolution
Stopped chasing true real-time for the huddle. Locked a cut-off and showed feed health instead.
Challenge
Fear of PHI leaking into leadership slides.
Resolution
Executive pages only carry safe aggregates. Detail stays behind role rules and minimum fields.
06 · Results
What changed
- Huddles open on one capacity board with a shared “as of” time.
- Late feeds are visible instead of silently wrong.
- Role views replace side copies of the same workbook.
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