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Using a Real-Time Data Platform to Cut ED Visits, Care Costs

July 25, 2019 - In its tireless pursuit of better care at lower costs, the healthcare industry has consistently made unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits, hospital readmissions, and drug prescriptions primary targets for improvement.  These care episodes cost billions each year, and often lead to poorer outcomes and lower-quality care, especially for...


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Residency Work Restrictions Fail to Impact Quality of Care

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Work restrictions for residents that limit the length of shifts were found to have no effect on the quality or cost of patient care, a new study finds. Beginning in 2003, the Accreditation Council for...

Medicare ACOs Use Analytics for Care Coordination, Population Health

by Jessica Kent

Although most Medicare ACOs are leveraging data analytics to inform their care coordination and population health efforts, many are also struggling with issues of data completeness and collection,...

UX, AI, and Amazon: Top 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2019

by Jennifer Bresnick

2018 was nothing if not eventful for the healthcare industry, and 2019 is already shaping up to be more of the same.  Between the federal urgency around enabling patient access to health data,...

National Study to Show Value of Patient Navigators in Cancer Care

by Jessica Kent

The Academy of Oncology Nurse and Patient Navigators (AONN+) in collaboration with Chartis Oncology Solutions and the American Cancer Society will launch a national, multisite study to demonstrate the...

Improved Data Quality, Clinical Workflows Generate eCQM Success

by Jessica Kent

To succeed with electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), organizations should optimize their data quality, improve data governance efforts, and enhance clinician education, according to a recent...

10 High-Value Use Cases for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

by Jennifer Bresnick

As healthcare organizations develop more sophisticated big data analytics capabilities, they are beginning to move from basic descriptive analytics towards the realm of predictive insights. Predictive...

Top 10 Disruptive Companies to Watch in the Healthcare Space

by Jennifer Bresnick

2018 has been a busy year for corporate news as companies with long experience in the healthcare industry acquire competitors, release new offerings, and butt up against non-traditional newcomers...

ONC Views APIs as Key to Health Data Exchange, Interoperability

by Jennifer Bresnick

Application programming interfaces (APIs), or standardized “hooks” that allow disparate applications to connect with one another, will continue to be an important tool for increasing health...

EHR Natural Language Processing Identifies Care Guideline Adherence

by Jessica Kent

Using natural language processing (NLP) can help providers measure the quality of heart failure inpatient care by extracting key data from the electronic health record (EHR) and monitoring adherence to...