The data warehouse is often seen as the holy grail of analytics tools. A single, centralized, normalized data set containing every piece of information being used to produce reports leaves your...
It is clear in today’s healthcare industry that big data is becoming more than just a buzzword. According to IBM, 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years...
No matter how carefully a healthcare organization balances the books, there will always be things that slip through the cracks. Inefficiencies are the inevitable byproduct of significant change, and...
Think hospitals are the only ones using financial analytics to boost the bottom line? Think again. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses sophisticated analytics to identify...
Before big data analytics can take a hold in healthcare, the data on which this analysis relies needs to be both accessible and in a proper form. At present, those two conditions are generally hard to...
Healthcare analytics has real and tangible benefits for providers, but only if data trickles down to the laptop in the consult room. And that only happens when all the stakeholders in the industry –...
Without clean, standardized data that can be manipulated, translated, and exchanged when needed, an analytics program has no hope of getting off the ground. After bringing clinical and financial...
Healthcare is built around one simple idea: when someone is sick, someone needs to help them get better. In an industry entirely focused on the patient, it’s no surprise that most healthcare...
When healthcare organizations think about investing in information technology, they’re looking for results, not just a touch-screen way of doing the same paper-based tasks. Analytics can provide...
There is fierce competition among healthcare organizations right now as the industry faces a tsunami of reform initiatives, financial changes, and a greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and...
One-third of electronic health record systems lack sufficient population health management and reporting capabilities to support in-depth analytics, according to a survey of 50 senior healthcare...
Hospitals are seeing the value within their own EHR systems when it comes to healthcare analytics, according to new data from the HIMSS Analytics 2013 U.S. Clinical & Business Intelligence...
The analytics business might still be in its infancy, but kids grow up so fast these days, and being young doesn’t mean you can’t be mature. Organizations that have successfully...
Getting started in analytics? You’re in the right place. Gartner, Inc. estimates that the worldwide business intelligence market, which includes analytics applications for healthcare...
There’s a strange and irritating paradox involved in analytics: despite being based on gleaning information from large databases, the more data you have, the harder it is to make sure that the data is...
It’s the basic lesson of Business 101: the financial health of a company depends on the quality of the services it provides. Organizations that can’t bring in customers can’t...
