Featured Dashboards Articles

  1. Improving The Decision-Making Process Through Behavioral Analytics 8/12/2016

    Because no matter how brilliant or logical a strategy may seem in the abstract, if it doesn’t translate into the desired behaviors from the people being targeted it’s not going to have the desired effect. Here’s an example of how behavioral analytics are being used in healthcare to improve patient (and population) health, reduce hospital events including admissions, readmissions, and ER utilization, increase patient satisfaction, and lower the cost of care. By Dave Hom, Chief Evangelist, SCIO Health Analytics

  2. Why HIPAA Compliance Does Not Equal Data Security 8/9/2016

    Many healthcare organizations structure cybersecurity efforts primarily around HIPAA compliance. Because penalties for noncompliance are so stiff, the healthcare industry focuses on HIPAA and is consequently lulled into compliance complacency. This is an erroneous belief that mere compliance inoculates them from every imaginable cyber threat. Unsurprisingly, healthcare has the dubious distinction of being the most likely industry to experience a data breach.

  3. Shared Best Practice Data: The Key To Error Reduction 7/20/2016

    A recent Johns Hopkins University study citing medical errors as the third-leading cause of death in the United States has been met with significant controversy in the press. By Dr. Viet Nguyen, Chief Medical Officer at Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions

  4. Data Governance: How Hospitals Can Overcome The 3 Biggest Challenges 7/14/2016

    Big Data and analytics are among the hottest topics being discussed within healthcare right now, and for good reason. The proliferation of information has begun to alter the way both providers and patients view healthcare information. By George Dealy, Vice President of Healthcare Applications at Dimensional Insight

  5. IoT And Healthcare: Is Your Body The Next Target For Hackers 6/28/2016

    Healthcare cybersecurity primarily focuses on protecting breaches of patients’ private medical data and, more recently, on preventing ransomware attacks that can lock health professionals out of their systems and make electronic medical records inaccessible. However, as wearable and implantable medical devices are developed and grow in popularity, another concern arises: the potential for hackers to actually attack the body of patients.

  6. Data's Credibility Problem: It's About The Quality, Not The Data 6/24/2016

    In the first part of this article, we discussed the ways in which health insurers should begin to position themselves for the transformation to a data world where the quality of the data — and thus its believability — holds primacy above anything else.

  7. UC Health Awarded Stage 7 Status By HIMSS 6/20/2016

    University of Cincinnati Medical Center reaches top EMR Adoption Model. By Megan Williams, contributing writer

  8. Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk 6/17/2016

    The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale

  9. Measuring Interdepartmental Outcomes In Healthcare: Challenges And Solutions 6/9/2016

    ScienceSoft offers three techniques for interdepartmental healthcare data analytics of outcomes. Implement them to understand your performance better. By Natallia Babrovich, Business Analyst, ScienceSoft

  10. More Ways To Pay Bring More Security Concerns: 3 Tips To Enhance Payment Protection 6/7/2016

    Consumerism and increasing patient responsibility are driving healthcare organizations to expand their options for patients to make payments. As providers look to new payment options to meet consumer demands and increase their collections, they need to carefully consider payment security.