In the US, access to and quality of healthcare are major drivers of health disparities and widening patient care gaps. Bridging care gaps also requires providers to have access to knowledge and resources to support these efforts, which can...
In the wake of the recent baby formula shortage, parents and providers are becoming increasingly interested in other methods for providing adequate nutrition to infants who may need it. Breast milk donation banks have long played a role in...
A report published late last month by Forrester outlines some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face, including security and compliance issues, and provides best practices when...
Data analytics and interoperability are necessary for health systems to provide high-quality care services to patients, but transitioning from pen, paper, and fax machines to computers and the cloud for data collection and sharing is only...
The healthcare sector is an increasingly complex system that incorporates various stakeholders outside of clinicians and patients. This complexity generates significant amounts of data across the continuum of care. To promote health...
Deep learning (DL), which is also known as deep structured learning or hierarchical learning, is a subset of machine learning. It is loosely based on the way neurons connect to one another to process information in animal brains. To...
As health data interoperability becomes an increasingly pressing concern for providers, developers and vendors are paying a great deal more attention to the data standards that will enable seamless,...
A patient’s social determinants of health contribute more to her health than her genetic code or her medical care. These social determinants of health are factors outside of the traditional healthcare setting that impact an...
Risk scoring allows organizations to understand their population based on defined risk factors and anticipate the future risk of the group. A risk score is a metric used to predict aspects of a patient’s care (cost, risk of...
Since the beginning of recorded history, healthcare practitioners have striven to make their actions more effective for their patients by experimenting with different treatments, observing and sharing their results, and improving upon the...
Healthcare organizations have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to leveraging their growing big data assets.
From population health platforms and supply chain management tools to...
Financially and clinically successful population health management programs must take much more into account than what happens to a patient while she is sitting on the exam table.
As the healthcare system’s responsibility...
The rapid proliferation of value-based care arrangements, driven by EHR adoption and the subsequent explosion of big data, has given providers both the opportunity and the financial imperative to focus...
After a slow and unsteady beginning at the start of the decade, the healthcare industry is finally becoming somewhat more comfortable with the idea that learning to live with big data is the only way...
Big data analytics is turning out to be one of the toughest undertakings in recent memory for the healthcare industry.
Providers who have barely come to grips with putting data into their...
From claims to electronic health records to input from the Internet of Things, healthcare organizations have a whole lot of data on their hands. Big data has become one of the industry’s most...
The terms “care management” and “care coordination” are starting to take on slightly different flavors in the health IT world as software companies create new offerings for the...
The healthcare industry has always had a bit of a rocky relationship with information technology, and the Internet of Things is shaping up to be no exception.
As devices get smaller and data gets bigger, providers are still...
The world of healthcare big data analytics is evolving at a blistering pace, and so is the language used to describe the latest projects, innovations, and achievements.
New terms are cropping up...
In just a few short years, the idea of “big data analytics” has transitioned from a mysterious new buzzword to an essential competency for healthcare organizations large and small.
Analytics has moved from a lofty...
