Physician Experience 101: Making Lives Easier And Healthier

Physicians are the ones anchoring the ship of healthcare in a sea of variables. Technological advancements are as they may, one cannot elude the touch and presence of a physician in healthcare. Everyone admits that healthcare needs to be fixed, but that would require a radical transformation where doctors would be the central players. Doctors have been known to approach their work with energy and enthusiasm and are responsible for at least 75% of all quality and cost-related decisions.

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2016 State of Population Health Analytics – Webinar Reminder

There is only one day before the webinar on the 2016 State of Population Health Analytics study on Wednesday, December 7th. Spaces are filling up. Please register using one of the links below.

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The State of Population Health Analytics – 2016 Study Results & Webinar

Since 2014, the Healthcare Center of Excellence (HCOE) has been tracking the healthcare industry’s progress towards population health analytics using their proprietary Healthcare Transformation Change Model. This model was developed in 2013 to help healthcare organizations understand the requirements to become a data-enabled healthcare organization. The concepts were based on a Gartner recognized CRM implementation model Professor Bennett previously co-developed. This model was considered one of the top three CRM implementation visions at the time and has become the basis for most successful CRM implementations today . Based on the model, the HCOE determined that in 2014, the industry was just past the “EHR Implementation” stage. In 2015, the dial moved a bit further as many organizations began achieving success with integrating data sources.

How is the healthcare industry progressing towards the implementation of population health analytics?

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2016 State of Population Health Analytics Survey – Becker’s Healthcare Interview

Since 2014, the Healthcare Center of Excellence (HCOE) has been tracking the healthcare industry’s progress towards population health analytics using their proprietary Healthcare Transformation Change Model. This model was developed in 2013 to help healthcare organizations understand the requirements to become a data-enabled healthcare organization. Each year, HCOE has published their “State of Population Health Analytics“.

The 2016 survey has been completed and Professor Bennett was interviewed by Becker’s Healthcare Review for the article “4 Tips for Hospitals Implementing Population Health Analytics“.


4 Tips for Hospitals Implementing Population Health Analytics

Hospitals are increasingly focused on leveraging predictive analytics to streamline their services — but how many organizations have successfully met this goal?

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Northwestern leads consortium to integrate patient-reported outcomes into electronic health records

$6.3 million NIH grant awarded to nine universities.

Thumbs up to my alma mater!

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The Secret Top Executives Know About Healthcare Analytics

Executive Summary

When most people think about the challenges of implementing healthcare analytics, they wrongly expect it to be the data, talent or technology.  Executives that have been successful implementing healthcare analytics know the top challenge is leadership.  In a study performed recently, leadership was identified as the top challenge by participants.  In fact, it wasn’t even close. Leadership was identified as a challenge by 29% of the respondents versus 18% for data and 14% for talent.  

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Need a Data Scientist? Try Building a ‘DataScienceStein’

Category : Big Data

Organizations are finding that hiring qualified Data Scientist is a real challenge. Experienced Data Scientists are expensive and are usually employed elsewhere. This high demand, low supply economics is leading to a situation of the ‘haves’ versus the ‘have-nots’, where the larger, financially rich organizations in the ‘sexy’ industries are most capable of attracting and hiring data scientists, while the lesser companies will have to make do without one.

Organizations are looking at new approaches to finding data scientists. Some are able to attract them with more than money like autonomy and development opportunities. Others are training current staff to become more data literate through professional development programs. Once trained, these individuals typically must work 12 to 24 months at the organization or have to pay back the amount spent on their training.

There is another approach that should be considered.

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Your Population Health Analytics Needs…From Start to Finish

New Assessment and Discovery Tools

A couple of the most asked questions I receive from attendees at the conferences I speak at or attend is how to effectively start an analytics program and how do they take their current analytics program to the next level. These are tough questions for most healthcare organizations and areas I addressed in my book, Competing on Healthcare Analytics. The success of the book led me to believe that there was more that we could be doing to help healthcare organizations take the next step. After all, I helped Microsoft with their first global analytics function.

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Predictive Analytics World Chicago 2016 Recap

I attended Predictive Analytics World in Chicago the week of June 20 to June 23. I met a lot of new people and was reacquainted with several other colleagues. As I listened to 2 days of workshops and the pre- and post-conference workshops, some common themes emerged. Most of these themes confirmed what I have been touching on in the presentations I’ve made at conferences over the last few years and discussed in my book, Competing On Healthcare Analytics, but it was reassuring to hear the same concepts presented by others.

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