FEATURED CONTENT

• 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 Point Of Care Ecosystem – 4 Benefits Of A Fully Connected Outpatient Experience

  2/6/2017

  This white paper from Midmark is the first in a series that defines the outpatient point of care ecosystem and examines how the key components that comprise it – such as interpersonal communication, patient education, patient and family conveyance, vitals acquisition, wait times, patientcaregiver interaction, and even data collection and documentation – have an impact on the patient experience.

• Participation Powers Healthy Changes: Proven Group-Based Intervention

  1/24/2018

  Health systems urgently need to manage chronic diseases as 86 percent of each U.S healthcare dollar goes to chronic disease related care. Astoundingly, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. New York based Off The Scale Health has combined the best technology with the best of group-based intervention to address the epidemic in a new and novel way.

• Hospitals: 3 Digital Corners You May Be Cutting

  2/17/2018

  The move from volume (fee-for-service) to value (value-based payment) and the growth in importance of outcomes and measurement are significantly impacting how providers share information with each other. Providers must be able to access health information across the continuum of care, as well as track and report health events amongst a network of providers. The FDA recently launched its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, which reimagines the agency’s approach to digital health products and innovation, to promote greater access and improved public health.

• Applying Machine Learning To Live Data

  8/4/2017

  According to the OECD, U.S. healthcare devotes far more of its economy to health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is shorter than in other countries that spend less. The biggest areas of spending and concern are for coordination of care and preventing hospital admissions for people with chronic conditions such as heart disease. The combination of connected medical devices, streaming analytics, big data, and machine learning has become more powerful and less expensive than before, which could enable scalable chronic disease management with better care at lower costs.

• Patients Are Paying The Price For Health IT's Stumbles

  5/11/2016

  While the HITECH Act of 2009 — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) economic stimulus bill — put much-needed emphasis on healthcare, particularly the role information technology (IT) should play in it, the reality is we have been left with a promise unfulfilled. Today, doctors are less productive than they were before, and IT is the culprit. Rather than enabling a better, more streamlined workflow, IT has become a burden.