Want to reduce preventable readmissions, keep patients away from the emergency room, and boost your HEDIS scores? Using analytics to identify chronic disease trends is a great first step, but focusing...
The decision to join an accountable care organization (ACO) may start out as a financial one, but anyone who takes the plunge quickly finds out that revenue is only half the battle. ACOs depend on a...
With nearly 70% of the staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) twiddling their thumbs on furlough this week, the flu and other public health threats are going unmonitored and...
Consumers — in the world of healthcare, patients — produce a tremendous amount of data. So much so that now with the adoption of EHR and health IT systems, healthcare organizations and providers are...
Why does big data need to be transformed into little data? The answer to that is simple: you can’t easily make sense of big data until it is analyzed and delivered in a comprehensible way to the...
Nine out of ten data scientists agree: patients should be very concerned about their privacy when it comes to the enormous amount of data healthcare providers are collecting. In a poll conducted by...
Actionable population health management relies on having an accurate picture of the patients you’re working with. But oftentimes, the neediest patients are the ones who live on the fringes, or off...
Sometimes, too much data can be a bad thing – or at least a puzzling one. Genetic researchers analyzing DNA for cancer markers are facing some ethical quandaries and serious patient privacy concerns...
