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• Risk Or Remedy: How Data Can Help Halt The Readmissions Crisis

  3/15/2016

  Under pressure to do more with less, healthcare providers are pushing data analytics to new heights — looking to improve care, prevent readmissions, and reduce costs for stakeholders and patients.

• Overcoming Insulin's High Price Tag To Tame The Diabetes Beast

  7/19/2019

  Diabetes continues to plague the healthcare industry, maintaining its status as one of the top public health issues in terms of clinical outcomes and cost. As providers continue to take on more risk within the framework of value-based care, population health initiatives must prioritize efforts to improve the outlook on this disease, and medication adherence is fundamental to any strategy.

• Efficient Cancer Care Through Informatics: 3 Ways The Process Is Broken And A Path Forward

  6/28/2019

  In 2012, within a relatively short period of time, my wife and I lost three close family members to different types of cancer. Back then, I was spending most of my energy on a horse-racing business with two big farms and 350 horses. But after my sister-in-law died from cancer at 40, at the height of our grieving period, my wife asked me why I was wasting all my time and money on horses when I could be doing something about this. She knows I like complex problems. My first thought was – I’m not a physician, how am I going to impact cancer care? But the question nagged at me.

• Massachusetts General Hospital Uses Smart Bar Code Printers To Ensure Patient Safety

  12/9/2010

  According to the FDA, hospitals could eliminate 50 percent of their medication administration errors by scanning bar codes at the point of care to positively identify patients, the medication they are about to receive, and match the information to a physician order. By Intermec, Inc.
• Data Science Is Becoming Increasingly Automated — And That's Good News For Healthcare

  12/15/2015

  Big Data is playing an increasing role in healthcare, promising lower costs, enhanced diagnoses, and improved doctor-patient matches. To get to the next level, two sea changes — access to medical information and intelligent data solutions — need to accelerate. By Scott Howser, SVP Products, Nutonian

• Higher Education Should Be Enlisted To Defend Patients Against Looming Cyber Threats

  12/29/2015

  In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic, to consumer-generated, to genomic data, the potential is limitless. But, he warned, without secure and timely access to that data, we are missing the transformative opportunity to improve health outcomes for patients. Dishman’s comments were born of experience. A cancer survivor of more than two decades, his treatment was riddled by miscommunication between practitioners and lack of collaboration across health systems. Put simply, for more than 20 years he was subjected to what has become a garish, nationwide reality: American healthcare organizations are suffering from a fundamental inability to process and disseminate health data in a secure and expedient way to both consumers and providers. By J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D., dean of graduate programs, University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration