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# Minitab Blog | Healthcare (2)
Tips and Techniques to Make Your Best Data-Driven Decisions
### Top Posts
### Top Posts - Healthcare
[Inside the 2025 IHI Forum: What Healthcare Leaders Are Saying About AI](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/ihi-forum-healthcare-and-ai?hsLang=en)
[Five Approaches to Enhance Patient Safety](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/five-approaches-to-enhance-patient-safety?hsLang=en)
[Navigating Healthcare Challenges for the 3 Ps + 1](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/3ps-healthcare-challenges?hsLang=en)
[Need Knee Surgery? A Before & After Control Chart Can Help You Decide](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/how-control-charts-can-show-improvement?hsLang=en)
[Lower Surgical Complications Through a Data-Driven Lens](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/lower-surgical-complications-through-a-data-driven-lens?hsLang=en)
## [SWOT Analysis: A Powerful Tool for Strategic Planning and More](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/swot-analysis-powerful-strategic-planning-tool?hsLang=en)
[Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/healthcare) | 6 Minute Read
Let a SWOT Analysis in Minitab Workspace help you plan strategically and inform future business whether in marketing, healthcare, CI or other industries.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/swot-analysis-powerful-strategic-planning-tool?hsLang=en)
## [How to Use Value Stream Maps in Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/value-stream-mapping-in-healthcare?hsLang=en)
[Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/healthcare) | 4 Minute Read
Value stream mapping (VSM) can help the healthcare industry map, visualize and understand material and information flow and improve their processes.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/value-stream-mapping-in-healthcare?hsLang=en)
## [Predictive Analytics and Determining Patient Length of Stay at Time of Admission](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/predictive-analytics-and-determining-patient-length-of-stay-at-time-of-admission?hsLang=en)
[Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/healthcare) | 5 Minute Read
Learn how historical data from a hospital can be used to accurately predict how long a patient will stay based on information you know when they arrive.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/predictive-analytics-and-determining-patient-length-of-stay-at-time-of-admission?hsLang=en)
## [Combating COVID-19: How Adventist HealthCare is Using Process Maps to Fight Back and Keep Staff Safe](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/combating-covid-19-adventist-healthcare-uses-minitab-engage?hsLang=en)
[Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/healthcare) | 3 Minute Read
Tap into Minitab Engage to combat COVID-19. See how Adventist HealthCare used a Minitab Engage project and process maps to fight back and keep staff safe.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/combating-covid-19-adventist-healthcare-uses-minitab-engage?hsLang=en)
## [Fewer X-Ray Errors Reduce Cancer Risk, Wait Time and Costs](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/fewer-x-ray-errors-reduce-cancer-risk-wait-time-and-costs?hsLang=en)
[Healthcare](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/healthcare) | 3 Minute Read
In hospitals and clinics, making the right decisions doesn’t just reduce costs from process inefficiencies — it results in better outcomes for patients.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/fewer-x-ray-errors-reduce-cancer-risk-wait-time-and-costs?hsLang=en)
## [Using Predictive Analytics to Help Seniors Maintain Their Independence](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-predictive-analytics-to-help-seniors-maintain-their-independence?hsLang=en)
[Statistics in the News](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/statistics-in-the-news) | 3 Minute Read
Predictive analytics is helping to advance assessments healthcare workers use to observe the elderly, and potentially detect and treat conditions earlier.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-predictive-analytics-to-help-seniors-maintain-their-independence?hsLang=en)
## [Using My Fitness Tracker's Data To Get A Superhero-Inspired Physique](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-my-fitness-trackers-data-to-get-a-superhero-inspired-physique?hsLang=en)
[Manufacturing](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/manufacturing) | 7 Minute Read
Analyzing two year's of fitness tracker data using Minitab Statistical Software to answer: does adding resistance training improve calories burnt compared to pure cardio?
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-my-fitness-trackers-data-to-get-a-superhero-inspired-physique?hsLang=en)
## [Using Intervals to Get at the Tail Ends of the Problem in Healthcare and Medical Devices](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-intervals-to-get-at-the-tail-ends-of-the-problem?hsLang=en)
[Medical Devices](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/tag/medical-devices) | 4 Minute Read
Demonstrating process improvement often involves showing improvement in the mean, so we focus on the center of a distribution. Defects don’t fall in the center, though. They're in the tails.
[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/blog/using-intervals-to-get-at-the-tail-ends-of-the-problem?hsLang=en)
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