The document discusses the value of analytics in healthcare and provides examples of analytics projects at the Institute for Healthcare Business Intelligence (IHBI) at Central Michigan University. It summarizes an admissions forecasting model developed for a hospital that helped predict weekly admission rates by specialty and unit occupancy. It also discusses IHBI's contextual dataset and rules-based approach to linking patient encounters over time based on their specialty and procedures. Finally, it briefly introduces the Michigan Health Information Network and its role in managing the legal and technical framework for health information exchange statewide.