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• For Hospitals, Predictive Analytics Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury

  11/10/2017

  When thinking about the business value of predictive analytics, hospitals often view it as an evolutionary technology and look for things like use cases, accuracy, cost, and return on investment. While those are all valid points to consider, a better way to look at it is to focus on what truly matters for patients and caregivers, work backwards, and explore how predictive analytics can make them better. Having worked with dozens of hospitals, I can tell you that — when viewed from this perspective — the answer is predictive analytics is a necessity, not a luxury.

• 70% Of Healthcare Organizations Lack The Resources To Properly Secure Data In The Cloud

  7/17/2019

  Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 30 percent of hospital data centers will be based in the cloud. The healthcare sector has traditionally been skeptical about the cloud, but Gartner says that budget pressures and the need to reduce capital expenditure are changing that mindset. Healthcare organizations that migrate their data and services to the cloud must take extra measures to manage and secure those assets effectively.

• How Can Marrying Healthcare And AI Solve Its Mystery Of Rising Care Costs?

  6/20/2019

  Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing segments of the digital universe, with data volumes expected to grow by 48 percent annually. Healthcare applications will be the principal driver of this data growth, with EHR penetration in the U.S. already reaching over 80 percent and expected to reach 95 percent by 2020.

• Choosing The Right Payment Mix For Your Practice

  12/19/2017

  When it comes to money management, most physicians refrain from hiding their money under a mattress and instead take advantage of various financial options that balance easy availability and long-term return on investment and which streamline their daily routine.

• 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.

• First We Fix The Data, Then We Make It Work For Us

  5/13/2016

  The healthcare industry amasses a tremendous amount of clinical data from which it gets far less value than it should. One issue is the lack of consistent, or perhaps I should say persistent, data stewardship with many errors and omissions negatively impacting clinicians. A second issue is a failure to put clinical data to work in meaningful ways, including the identification of trends and patterns (your most at-risk patients), or — at a much higher system level — reducing network leakage and creating effective measurement initiatives. Addressing these issues will be essential to achieving meaningful progress toward healthcare industry goals — and it’s really not as difficult as it seems.