HealthITAnalytics might have made its debut late in 2013, but in the few months since bursting onto the scene, it’s certainly made a splash. Analytics is one of the hottest topics in healthcare...
Since 2009, the healthcare industry has been intently focused on the thorny problem of EHR adoption. Goaded on by meaningful use and barely able to keep their heads above water as they navigated the...
There might be a great deal of anticipation about the explosive growth of healthcare analytics in 2014, but 2013 was no slouch when it comes to technological advances and improvements in care quality,...
One of the chief complaints of healthcare organizations is that developing an IT infrastructure robust enough to perform meaningful analytics and streamlined quality reporting is simply too expensive in...
Innovative strategies to engage patients, reform reimbursement models, and embrace new forms of patient-provider encounters will only succeed on a strong foundation of data integrity and information...
If there’s one patient bracket that gets population health managers nervous, it’s the ever-expanding number of baby boomers eligible for Medicare. How can providers track, manage, connect, and...
Even though data analytics is becoming increasingly vital to the way the world does business, some industries can still afford to view it as a “nice to have” item. Customers will still flock...
The widely cited statistic that only the top 5% of hospitals have a robust data analytics infrastructure will be tested with a thorough assessment and a new maturity score released by HIMSS Analytics...
Social, mobile, analytics, cloud. To the delight of pun-loving media, SMAC has become a cute shorthand way of saying what we’re all thinking: the four horsemen of the digital revolution are here to...
Colorado’s successful Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC) is working wonders for the state’s Medicaid programs, taking an unmanaged fee-for-service system into the future with a deeper focus on...
Healthcare providers are searching for all the help they can get to dodge financial penalties for preventable readmissions, insufficient quality of care, and a lack of patient engagement, and...
As healthcare reform trundles onward, marrying improved technology systems with better data and a focus on accountability, health systems have been forced to take a closer look at how they do business,...
Data analytics and revenue cycle management products are driving continued growth in the health IT market as providers seek technology-enabled methods of managing the enormous influx of information...
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...
There’s no magic analytics genie waiting to transform your practice into an agile, data-savvy utopia. It takes hard work, advanced planning, and buy-in from everyone involved in collecting, storing,...
Analytics is one of those things that sounds great but often takes a backseat to things like clearing the waiting room within a few hours and making sure medical students don’t accidentally kill...
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...
For good analytics, you need more than good data. You need all the data that exists on a patient in order to make truly informed decisions about treatments, costs, and outcomes. But up to 80% of a...
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...
