Get recognized as a valued contributor to your organization's financial performance when you earn HFMA's Certified Specialist Business Intelligence (CSBI) certification. Those who earn this certification have demonstrated their ability to find, inspect, clean, transform, and model data to clarify issues; suggest conclusions; and support decision making designed to improve financial efficiencies and operational effectiveness.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the phenomenon called big data Identify the concepts and tools of business intelligence
- Recognize how information for better decisions is derived from large, clinical, financial, and other databases Identify the key point of leverage for analytics in the healthcare industry
- Recognize the decision types and analytic tools that are part of decision management Identify how data warehousing, reporting and analysis tools, and data systems architecture are used
- Apply the basics of analytical and quantitative skills of BI in healthcare Understand and perform sampling
- Recognize the role of business intelligence in stimulating action in the changing healthcare industry
- Recognize how emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and power bases can create a strong leverage for influence Identify the various kinds of leadership styles and power bases
CPE Award Amount: 10.0
Program Level: Intermediate
Program Prerequisite: Knowledge of the healthcare industry as it relates to financial data in a healthcare setting, including data, processes, workflows and productivity. Some knowledge of quantitative and analytic skills helpful.
Recommended Experience: 3-5 years experience in data or statistical analysis or other data-related fields helpful.
Advanced Preparation: None
Instructional Method: Self-Study
Delivery Method: QAS Self-Study
Field of Study & Topic in hours: 5.0 Specialized Knowledge - 5.0 Statistics
Content last revised: February 2026
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