al., 2012).

The existing reporting systems lack the level of usability inherent in social media applications as well. Social media applications have created and continue to fuel the expectation of usability that is the new standard for tablet-based applications and systems (Boicey, 2013).

The proposed new analytics application will also enable the entire healthcare provider staff to have greater agility and flexibility in defining process workflows and quickly redefining dashboards and key performance indicators to align with the needs of patients. For the first time, analytics will be aligned precisely to the patient, not to the physician or worse, the healthcare provider's system constraints and requirements. This will liberate the massive amount of data in existing systems as well, enabling healthcare providers to create highly effective programs for interpolating trends and analytics throughout the entire workflow of patient treatment programs.

Finally, the proposed new real-time analytics application will make it...
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