Case Study: NorthStar Anesthesia achieves real-time analytics and $1M+ labor savings with Microsoft Azure

Healthcare analytics in action with NorthStar Anesthesia and Power BI

NorthStar Anesthesia, a large U.S. provider with more than 2,000 anesthesiologists and CRNAs across 20 states, needed to modernize analytics to protect margins and improve care. Their legacy reporting required analysts to assemble monthly customer presentations from 2,400 disparate data points, producing up to 15 unique reports daily that were often inconsistent and out of date, consuming time that could have been spent on strategic analysis.

By replacing legacy tools with Microsoft Power BI and integrating reports into SharePoint and Azure (with row‑level security), NorthStar automated data refreshes, standardized templates, and made dashboards accessible on any device; US Medical IT helped deploy the solution in under three months. The new platform uncovered $50,000 in potential incremental reimbursement from one client and an estimated $1M in labor optimization savings, improved decision‑making and customer presentations, and boosted analyst productivity and morale.

NorthStar Anesthesia

Matt Metry

Vice President of Operations