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As the Practice Leader for Lancet, Laura helps healthcare organizations understand the value of their data. Laura has more than 10 years of experience working in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing for healthcare. In her previous role as Director of Business Intelligence for a pharmacy benefit management company, she led an enterprise-wide Business Intelligence project from pre-conception to execution. She is a veteran of United Health Group and most recently Ingenix, where she managed a commercially available suite of Business Intelligence tools. Throughout her vast experience, she has started and supported more than a dozen BI Initiatives and has worked with over 50 health plans nationwide.

Laura truly believes that "educating each other is the only way to go" and that "we are all data rich and information poor." In 2006, she founded the Twin Cities chapter of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), an association of BI and Data Warehousing professionals interested in improving their knowledge and skill sets. The Midwest Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit was born in 2009 when Laura recognized the need for a concentrated educational & networking event for those practicing Business Intelligence in healthcare. At a national level, Laura speaks on topics including "How to Start a BI Program," "How to Market Your BI Program," Implications of BI for Healthcare," "Stats 101 for Business Users" and "Proven Strategies for Increasing User Adoption.".

Laura enjoys being a member of ACHE, the American College of Healthcare Executives and contributing to the Healthcare Channel on the BeyeNETWORK. You can read the blog about her work at: http://blog.lancetsoftware.com.