Eyeing the transition to value-based payment models, a midwestern health system reengineered its approach to data collection and analytics to provide clinicians with more actionable information.
Executives at Sanford Health, headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, refer to this revamped approach as “prescriptive analytics,” which goes beyond predicting health outcomes. Instead, the analytics team searches for specific clinical interventions that can improve care.
Making predictive analytics actionable is an issue that healthcare providers around the country have been focusing on, as more hospital executives believe analytics can improve patient care.
