The core premise in this blog is: Federal Meaningful Use (MU) requirements are well-intended, but like a teacher who “teaches to the test,” the program created a very complicated system that might pass the test of MU, but is not producing meaningful results for patients and clinicians. As reported in MedScape, the first formal study […]
What Does Actionable Data Actually Mean?
“Actionable data” is a term that has been tossed around for years, right? How many times have you heard this: “The key to analytics success is providing actionable data.” Okay, but what does that mean, really? Here I am, a data warehouse and analytics design guy… how can I measure whether the systems I design […]
An Uphill Climb: Applying Military Intelligence To Manage Data At Intermountain
[Below is the latest in a blog series in which Dale Sanders explores the “combination of fate, luck, planning and preparation that rolls together and creates a career.” Click to read Part 1 and Part 2] My search for the leading healthcare organizations in computer-aided decision-making that met the time-critical and life-critical requirements didn’t last very long. There […]
From Nuclear Warfare To Healthcare, Part 2: Thawing Cold War Leads To A Career Change
[Below is the latest in a blog series in which Dale Sanders explores the “combination of fate, luck, planning and preparation that rolls together and creates a career.” Click here for Part 1.] In the mid and late 1980s, we (members of the US Air Force Strategic Air Command battle staff) were seeing evidence in national […]
The Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement
In negotiations, there is a concept known as the “best alternative to a negotiated agreement” (BATNA). The concept was first described in a book called “Getting to Yes” published in 1981 by researchers at Harvard Law School. In a nutshell, BATNA refers to the situation that remains if current negotiations fail; that is, what are […]
The 7 Simple Practices Of Data Governance
Data is now one of the most valuable assets in any healthcare organization, especially as we transition into a more analytically driven industry. Data is the longest lasting asset in any organization, outliving facilities, devices and people. In the past few years, as the value and longevity of data have become better realized, the term […]
Looking Past The Analytics Smoke And Mirrors
I had a recent opportunity to engage in an online discussion with a well-known healthcare analytics vendor about the value of comparative analytics, predictive analytics, and natural language processing (NLP) in healthcare. This vendor was describing a beautiful new world of the future, in which comparative data in particular would be the cornerstone of our […]
Switching It Up: How Dale Sanders Went From Nuclear Warfare to Healthcare
[Below is the latest in a blog series in which Dale Sanders explores the “combination of fate, luck, planning and preparation that rolls together and creates a career.”] When Kate and Anthony asked me to write this blog, I was a bit reluctant to write a piece with so many first-person pronouns, but I hope […]
The Superpower That CIOs Can Harness To Become Analytic Heroes
As Vi Shaffer of Gartner said in her Fall 2012 CHIME keynote, “The ‘I’ in CIOs of the future stands for analytics.” All of us quietly yearn to be heroes, and CIOs are no exception. We want to harness the power of information technology to dramatically improve healthcare quality and costs. Despite their privileged position […]
From Governance to Standards: Data Warehousing Decoded
Dale Sanders, CIO mentor and senior technology advisor for the Cayman Islands HSA, tackles data warehousing by providing answers to key questions, from what type of governance structure is needed to which core dimensions of analysis are most important. He also breaks down the four data models and talks about buy-in […]