IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics
This could have a significant impact on moving the industry closer to becoming data enabled healthcare.
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- April 11, 2016
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- April 6, 2016
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2016 State of Population Health Analytics Survey
On April 5, 2016, the Healthcare Center of Excellence launched the 2016 State of Population Health Analytics Survey at the Medical Informatics World Conference 2016. We will be accepting completed surveys through midnight April 15, 2016.
Since 2014, the Healthcare Center of Excellence has been tracking the healthcare industry’s progress towards population health analytics using their proprietary Healthcare Transformation Change Model.
- March 30, 2016
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Ready to Become a Population Health Analytics Competitor?
The healthcare industry generally recognizes the need for population health management. It has the potential to save lives, improve health and save money. A key component of population health management is analytics. But, as widely accepted as the need for population health management is the fact that most don’t know where to start. A survey of healthcare executives by Stoltenberg Consulting revealed that 41% of respondents identified data analytics and business intelligence as a priority for the year 2015. The problem is that 84% of them have questions about where to start their implementation efforts.
The Foundational Approach to Population Health Analytics
The rate of change in the healthcare industry has been staggering. From Electronic Health Records to ICD-10 to Population Health, few industries have undergone such change in such a short amount of time. The silver lining in this change is the treasure trove of digital data, which will enable providers to analyze and compare information across thousands of patients instead of relying on the anecdotal evidence they previously used.
- March 22, 2016
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Join Me at the Medical Informatics World 2016
Category : Healthcare General
On April 4-5 I will be presenting at the Fourth Annual Medical Informatics World Conference 2016 in Boston, MA.
On April 4th I will be co-leading a breakout discussion group on Population Health Analytics and on April 5th, I will be presenting, “The Foundational Approach to Population Health Analytics”.
Description:
The shift from a fee for service business model to one based on population health requires healthcare organizations to not only understand the health of the patients in their portfolio but also, predict potential future health challenges. This presentation will help organizations understand the building blocks that must be in place to effectively compete using healthcare analytics. Guidelines for analytics implementation will be reviewed as well as presenting how it can be used to compete using healthcare analytics.
Please join me and a few hundred of your colleagues as we focus on to effectively use analytics in healthcare.
Professor Bennett
- October 7, 2015
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NHS leadership in crisis as running hospitals becomes near-impossible
The challenges for healthcare leaders is not just a U.S. problem. Read the article below.
NHS leadership in crisis as running hospitals becomes near-impossible
- September 8, 2015
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Top Challenges to Analytics in Healthcare? Not Technology!
A variety of challenges stand in the way of successfully implementing analytics in healthcare organizations. Not surprisingly, the top issues don’t always involve technology.
This finding became clear in a study conducted by the Healthcare Center of Excellence this summer, which sought to determine what are perceived to be the top challenges facing analytics.
The study reveals the importance of executive leadership skills in bringing about support of analytics and the extent to which findings from analytic efforts are incorporated into how organizations change and adapt. This aspect of leadership, while learnable, needs to happen quickly if organizations want to achieve the desired incomes from their forays into analytics.
- September 4, 2015
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Medical Informatics World 2016
April 4-5, 2016, Boston, MA
Now in its fourth year, Medical Informatics World has become a must-attend industry event, uniting senior-level executives and industry leaders representing all the major contributors to a new era of healthcare. More than 400 providers, payers, technology providers, biomedical scientists, academic researchers, informaticists and national health organizations come together to discuss emerging trends and collaborations in health IT for improved outcomes in the healthcare ecosystem. Focused tracks allow the community to delve into the most pressing topics of cross-industry data sharing, population health, patient engagement, and clinical decision support. Keeping pace with the evolving industry, coverage has now expanded to include quantitative imaging and radiomics, predictive analytics and interoperability.
- August 28, 2015
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Using data to move toward transparency: Six things health care providers can do
With high-deductible health plans increasing in popularity, cost and accountability for outcomes will become more important to consumers seeking medical providers. Additionally, provider organizations managing risk-based contracts will have additional motive to increase transparency to earn trust and instill loyalty with patients.
Do patients held for observation skew performance on quality measures?
Do patients held for observation skew performance on quality measures?
Just how much success have hospitals had in their efforts to prevent patients from returning soon after leaving? Perhaps not as much as reported, two physicians argue at the blog for health policy journal Health Affairs.
Why? Because Medicare patients who end up in hospital beds for observation technically do not count as repeat visitors.