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• 6 Challenges Tech Has Brought To Healthcare (And How To Avoid Them)

  12/19/2019

  Technology has changed the way industry professionals approach the idea of healthcare. While many of these innovations are positive — facilitating patient care and ensuring traditional treatments are more effective — they also present some unique challenges. Why? Because this technology is something the industry has never seen before.

• Overcoming The Hurdles Of Healthcare Technology

  11/10/2016

  Healthcare is losing over $2.2 million per data breach, and that doesn’t include additional losses in customer information. Since 2009, almost half the population has had their healthcare data stolen as a result of one of approximately 1,500 data breaches. So, why aren’t healthcare companies doing more to address this problem? There are a couple of reasons, both of which can be attributed to the fact the healthcare industry is, at its core, outdated.

• Charting The Course Toward Value-Based Care With A Healthcare Data Lake

  9/22/2015

  There is no doubt healthcare providers are working hard to improve clinical outcomes. With healthcare reform progressing, providers are being asked to accelerate their goals and timetables to programmatically manage current and future high risk populations as their organizations make the transition to value-based payment structures. “All hands are on deck” is the cry as IT teams work to integrate EHRs, medical imaging, labs, and pathology at the same time they are building better predictive analytic models to inform clinicians at the point-of-care. By Roberta Katz, Director, Healthcare-Life Sciences, EMC

• Implementing A Healthcare Data Platform To Promote High-Value Care

  6/18/2020

  To close the gaps in healthcare delivery, healthcare organizations first need to drill deep into a patient’s clinical information and identify the underlying gaps. That’s no small task given that data and different ID numbers from heterogeneous sources be matched to a patient.

• Intelligent Wellness Automation Arrives In 2017

  1/24/2017

  Automation may summon dystopian visions of a labor force crowded out by machines that work 24/7, don’t take breaks, or demand a competitive benefits package. But, according to Accenture’s report Intelligent Automation Is Changing Healthcare, 2016, “Intelligent automation really means combining technology with people to get a job done — either in a more effective way or a more productive way.” By Sam Salbi, CEO, FitLyfe

• ACO Growth Indicates Expanding Need For Evidence-Based Decision Support Tools

  12/12/2016

  If the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) Fall Conference is any indication of the growth of the value-based care movement, then one fact is certain: it is not slowing down any time soon. The first NAACOS conference in 2012 had 123 attendees; 2016 had 670. By Joe Guerriero, senior vice president of MDGuidelines, ReedGroup