Tag: Data Analytics

August 12, 2016

A new report from health information management consultancy Just Associates examines the patient-matching landscape and identifies seven critical issues providers need to get right. 1.Capture data Data capture plays a tremendous role in the creation of duplicate patient information. Front-end […]

August 8, 2016

With significant shifts in quality and payment underway in healthcare, population health initiatives that focus on improving health outcomes have become core to the mission of many provider organizations. Population-level approaches focus on improving the health of a whole population […]

July 28, 2016

Data quality issues continue to plague the large majority of organizations, according to a new report from research firm TDWI. The study found that 86 percent of the 411 organizations it surveyed are not fully satisfied with the quality of […]

June 21, 2016

At Butler Health System, a 311-bed community hospital in Butler Pa., hospital leaders have come together to use data analytics to improve a range of patient care delivery processes and outcomes. Working with an analytics solution from Information Builders, a […]

June 20, 2016

The promise of genomics and personalized medicine is immense. But right now health information technology is seriously unprepared to capitalize on the medical advancements that could be just around the corner. “We’re really not in near as good a position […]

June 7, 2016

For healthcare providers, value-based care isn’t just an operational incentive anymore, it’s now an imperative for basic survival. As a result, many executives now consider it vitally important to redesign health system services for population health, according a recent Advisory […]

April 14, 2016

The first quarter of 2016 saw $1.4 billion in venture capital funding and the most merger and acquisitions transactions in a single quarter to date, according to Mercom Capital Group. The top health IT areas of investment were: wearables at […]

April 12, 2016

What have proven to be some of the major stumbling blocks facing the stakeholders of U.S. healthcare as they pursue data analytics to support value-based care delivery and purchasing? A plethora of issues emerged during a discussion at the World […]

March 30, 2016

The healthcare analytics phenomenon has been a leading edge topic for several years, with exciting discussions among health IT leaders around the capabilities of Big Data and predictive analytics tools at virtually every industry conference and event. What’s more, the […]

March 3, 2016

How many of you have a personal health record? “We’re at HIMSS and only a few people have a PHR,” chuckled Greenspun, Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. That micro-sample is today’s reality – but it comes also […]

March 1, 2016

Xerox launched a new population health management solution here at HIMSS16. Dubbed Xerox Health Outcome Solutions, the tool can be used to help at-risk organizations better prepare for the new reality of bundled payments and accountable care. Most healthcare professionals […]

February 29, 2016

Between 40% and 80% of what a healthcare provider tells patients is immediately forgotten, and half of what they do remember, they get wrong. “Those are two of the most depressing statistics I’ve ever heard,” said John Mafi, MD, a […]

February 25, 2016

Care management programs must feature a process for evaluating care quality in the form of patient-reported outcomes. “Any system embarking on a value-based payment initiative should certainly be mindful of the quality frameworks to which they will be held accountable […]

February 22, 2016

Historical medical information that resides in claims data, electronic medical records (EMRs), and elsewhere has enduring value, but those data remain, by definition, anchored in the past. EMRs, for example, give us a much better view of what happened than […]

February 16, 2016

This fall, athenahealth convened live polling discussions with 60 leaders of hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups at advisory roundtables in California, Massachusetts and Washington, DC. The goal: to assess the current state of population health management while distilling […]

February 8, 2016

While 79 percent of healthcare organizations are in at least one payment arrangement with a payer that includes either upside gain or both upside and downside gain/risk, most organizations are still just testing the waters, according to a survey report […]

February 3, 2016

71 percent of adults would use a personal health monitoring device if it was clinically accurate, according to a national survey of 1,000 respondents commissioned by The Society for Participatory Medicine and healthcare technology company Biotricity Inc. The survey reveals […]

February 3, 2016

The healthcare industry at large agrees that improved population health management is vital to the future of healthcare, but a new survey from Numerof & Associates shows hospitals have a lot more to accomplish in this area. Researchers polled more […]

July 29, 2015

On Monday, July 20, moments after he had delivered a keynote address to the CHIME Lead Forum-Denver, at the Sheraton Downtown Denver, Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek, the Austin, Tex.-based consulting firm, sat down with HCI Editor Mark Hagland to […]

May 14, 2015

A study posted on the JAMA Internal Medicine website shows a decade-old environmental regulation didn’t stop asthma patients from using inhalers as some had feared. But one doctor argues that it also probably did little to improve the environment but […]