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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 [...]
Drilling down on data analytics
Health information exchange
Shoring up the infrastructure
Embarking on an organizational redesign
Dealing with the HIT workforce shortage
Working hard, having fun
Key lesson learned: “be utterly transparent”
Suggestive Analytics. The power of suggestion meets the power of data. But, before we talk about that, let’s contrast it to the buzz phrase of the day — Predictive Analytics. I’d like to have a dime for every white paper, blog, journal article and marketing brochure I’ve seen in the past six months that cheer [...]
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
In some cases, the utility of patient genotyping prior to therapeutics is of unquestioned value. In non-Hodgkin’s and Mantle Cell lymphoma, DNA sequencing of the tumor provides personalized cancer vaccines that demonstrate statistically significant Phase III clinical trial results with disease-free survival benefit in treatment of these types of follicular lymphoma [1]. The Oncotype DX® [...]
With the recent selection of CSC, Microsoft, and HealthUnity by the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange, I’m once again intrigued with the role that Microsoft might play in the HIT market. I suspect the MetroChicago project is more interested in HealthVault, but Amalga is the most interesting product in Microsoft’s struggling healthcare vertical. Amalga is a [...]
Implementing a few clinical systems isn’t going to get you applause at El Camino Hospital. That’s because the organization has “been there, done that,” implementing the first CPOE system some 40 years ago. Considering that tough crowd, the CIO role isn’t for newcomers, and Greg Walton is no newcomer. With 40 years in the business [...]
Medhost has launched OpCenter — executive decision-support solutions that provide real time information on incoming admissions, patient acuity and hospital bed saturation levels. According to Medhost, much of the backlog in the ED is not related to ED patient flow, but is caused by systemic issues that delay moving patients from the ED to [...]
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