FEATURED CONTENT

• 5 Ways MedTech Can Prevent, Treat The Flu

  1/23/2020

  Despite the many advances of modern medicine, the flu remains a challenge for healthcare — causing sickness, hospital stays and even death throughout the country every year. This year, there have already been as many as 18 million illnesses, 210,000 hospitalizations and 17,000 deaths reported.

• Improving Healthcare's $6 Billion Patient Matching Problem

  3/19/2019

  Organizations need unprecedented clarity and reliability into one’s medical record to avoid redundant or unnecessary tests and procedures, erroneous reporting and analytics, billing inaccuracies, administrative burdens, denied claims and lost revenue. A single, comprehensive view of patient information is essential for informed clinical-decision making, effective episodic care and cost management, and a seamless provider and patient experience during every encounter.    

• Data Analytics: Making Healthcare Healthy, Wealthy And Wise

  9/25/2015

  Today’s technology not only allows the storage of massive amounts of data, but also enables fast analysis and real-time pattern detection that improves clinical efficiency, care quality, affordability and policy making.

   

  Analytics are central to achieving the systematic quality improvements and cost reductions demanded by healthcare reform, but this new age of analytics requires a foundational set of analytical information systems that many executives have not anticipated. How will the healthcare industry leverage Big Data solutions? How can analytics be applied to data security challenges? Some industry players have successfully introduced a Healthcare Analytics and Research Framework to address some use cases that help improve outcomes and optimize costs. By Chetan Manjarekar, SVP and Head of Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG), Syntel, Inc.

• The Last Mile Of Population Health Management

  11/30/2016

  The concept of population health was first introduced in 2003, when David Kindig and Greg Stoddart defined it as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.” By Egor Kobelev, Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences and Daniel Piekarz, Vice President of Business Development, Healthcare & Life Sciences, DataArt

• What Data Tells Us About The State Of Patient Engagement

  4/15/2020

  There has never been greater demand from patients for quicker and easier access to care. To meet that mandate, more and more providers are leveraging mobile-first engagement technologies to improve access and deliver the overall experience today’s consumers expect. One of those technologies is something the vast majority of U.S. adults use every day: text messaging.

• Radiation Exposure: Avoiding Repetitive Exams And Raising Patient Awareness

  4/20/2018

  It’s no news that individuals are exposed to daily background radiation, including cosmic, terrestrial, and internal one. Fortunately, the amount is not big enough to cause real damage to the human organism. However, medical procedures as x-ray, computed tomography, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine imaging — those using ionizing radiation to generate images of the body — may negatively affect the DNA. And exceeding permissible doses may lead to the development of carcinogenic tumors.