For hospital & clinical ops
Your bed board knows every ward's occupancy to the minute — your Power BI report shows it as a table nobody scans during a surge.
A hospital runs on where things are happening — which ward is full, whether the ED is backing up, if a theatre is running over — but the reports that manage it are flat: a bar chart of "occupancy by unit", a table of ED wait times, a KPI tile for available beds. None of them let a bed manager or duty matron glance at the actual floor and see where the pressure is. A synoptic panel closes that gap — it binds each region of your hospital floor plan (Emergency, ICU, the inpatient wards, radiology, pharmacy, theatres, reception) to a measure and colors it, so "Ward B is at capacity" or "ED is amber" is obvious in one look instead of buried in rows.
Native Power BI has no floor-plan visual. The usual workarounds are a static image with manually-placed cards on top (breaks the moment a bay is repurposed or the plan changes), Shape Map (built for choropleth geography, not a building layout), or an AppSource synoptic visual you rent per user. VizForge generates a synoptic .pbiviz from your own floor plan: upload the layout, the AI names each area, you bind your bed-management and EHR measures, and you own the resulting file — no per-seat fee, no dependency on a vendor's release schedule.
The demo below is the real idea in miniature: a hospital plan whose wards light up by a sample bed-occupancy measure. In production you'd bind the same regions to live data from your bed-management or capacity system.
Occupied vs staffed beds per ward and ICU, so a unit nearing capacity is visible before you go on diversion.
Average wait and patients-in-queue in Emergency, shaded green to red as the department backs up.
OR in-use time and turnover per theatre — spot the list running over or the room sitting idle.
Nurse-to-patient ratio per unit, so the ward running a shift short is flagged before it becomes unsafe.
Generate the synoptic .pbiviz from your hospital floor plan and import it into Power BI Desktop.
Drop the ward/area field (one row per unit, matching the named regions) into the Category well.
Add your measure — e.g. Bed Occupancy % from your bed-management model — into the Values well.
Set a conditional-format color rule (green healthy → red at capacity) and the plan colors itself.
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A hospital floor plan with Emergency and Reception on the left, ICU and two inpatient wards through the middle, and Radiology, Pharmacy, and an operating theatre on the right — each area bindable to a bed-occupancy measure.
Not with a native visual — Power BI has no floor-plan chart. You use a synoptic panel: a custom visual that maps regions of your layout to data. VizForge generates one from your own floor plan so each ward, the ED, ICU, and theatres bind to a measure and color by it, and you own the .pbiviz outright.
A background image with cards is static and fragile — repurpose a bay or move a unit and every card is wrong, and nothing is actually data-bound, it's just placed. A synoptic panel binds each named region to a field, so the coloring updates with your data and cross-filters like any other Power BI visual.
No. You upload the floor plan and the AI segments and names the areas; you refine the names and bind your measures. That is the whole point versus the older draw-every-polygon synoptic workflow.
No. VizForge generates the visual from the floor-plan layout only — no patient records are involved in creating it. The .pbiviz then runs inside your report and reads from your own model, so bed occupancy, wait times, and staffing stay in your Power BI tenant like any other measure.
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Upload your real layout, let the AI name the wards, bind your measures, and download a .pbiviz you own forever.