The Challenges of Implementing Healthcare Analytics

An insight into predictive analytics that is the basis for real-time or near real-time decision support that is still rare among healthcare organisations.

Healthcare analytics has the potential to help identify possible health risks, promote better health and deliver more accurate diagnosis and treatment plans. There are several challenges that must be overcome before healthcare can deliver on that promise.

Let’s first agree on the kind of healthcare analytics we are discussing. It’s a broad term and can mean different things to different people. In fact, companies have been performing some kind of healthcare analytics for years, primarily around revenue cycle and claims data. For purposes of this discussion, we are looking at predictive analytics that is the basis for real-time or near real-time decision support. This kind of analytics is still rare among healthcare organisations.

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