Health Information Governance

50% of hospitals get healthcare analytics, BI data from EHRs

by Jennifer Bresnick

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...

What role will CMS play in healthcare big data, analytics?

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

A core requirement of any successful healthcare analytics platform is a robust data set, and one of the healthcare organizations with the biggest amount of health data is the Centers for Medicare &...

Gauging the maturity of your business intelligence systems

by Jennifer Bresnick

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...

Data triage is critical for effective storage strategies

by Jennifer Bresnick

The cloud is a very popular place to be these days, especially when you’re talking about huge volumes of data calculated in terabytes and petabytes.  Offloading the storage to a contracting company...

What can the EHR adoption saga teach us about analytics?

by Jennifer Bresnick

Everything worth building needs a strong foundation, no matter how difficult it is to break ground.  EHR adoption has been a struggle, and not all of the problems have been solved yet.  Productivity...