Cultural Principles and Patterns in Healthcare Analytics

Dale Sanders, Senior VP, Healthcare Quality Catalyst and Senior Technology Advisor & CIO Mentor, Cayman Islands Health Services Authority

On Sept. 13, HealthLeaders Magazine published an excellent article with interviews from several healthcare visionaries, entitled, “Metrics that Matter”. The comments in the article subtly underscored some very important principles and patterns affecting healthcare analytics and data warehousing, especially the manner in which analytics evolves within the culture of an organization. It is critically important [...]

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Ron Strachan, CIO, Community Health Network, Chapter 2

Ron Strachan, CIO, Community Health Network

The challenge of being on an EHR implementation that isn’t being led by IT
Reporting to the COO & chief physician officer
Extending Epic out to affiliated physicians (after taking care of owned docs)
Waiting on the Epic rollout to attest to MU for ambulatory

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Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Chapter 2

The art of vendor disengagement
Disease management/business intelligence
“What’s the risk of this patient getting what kind of disease?”
The importance of analytics
Homecare/mobile technologies

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 3

Working with Merge Healthcare for image exchange
Moving from a children’s hospital to an adult environment
Going from single facility to multi-hospital system
A focus on leadership development
Going CHCIO

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KLAS Breaks Down BI Vendors

BI Tools Help Make Sense Of It All

With payment reform making business decisions ever more intricate, a new KLAS report, Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance, seeks to offer insight into the marketplace.   “Analytics reveals patterns, anomalies, key variables, and relationships to better facilitate intelligent decision-making and will be essential to a hospital’s ability to survive in the years to come,” [...]

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Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 3

*ICD-10 prep — “It’s changing the way people look at things”
*Remote hosting with Cerner
*Dimensional Insight to “tap into the knowledge”
*From helpless to helpful desk
*The benefits of a diverse background

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Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 1

Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital

*About EJGH
*Disaster recovery a top priority
*”Build it new rather than trying to touch it up”
*The hospital selects Cerner IT Works
*Aspen Advisors helps with the selection

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TEXT/PODCAST: Best in KLAS 2010 Revealed (One-on-One w/President Adam Gale, Chapter 2)

In its end-of-year report – 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services – KLAS finds Epic is the top-ranked overall software vendor, with a performance score of 87.0 out of 100, followed by Picis and Philips. The top-rated overall services firm is Hayes Management (90.5), followed by Vitalize Consulting Solutions Inc. [...]

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