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Health Cloud: Now is the Time to Migrate

Jul 15th, 2019

With Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption having achieved critical mass over the past decade, healthcare CIOs are eager yet cautious in leveraging the cloud stack to modernize their digital investments. Digital delivery models are often best served on the cloud because of its inherent strengths in provisioning HIPAA compliant, scalable and agile platforms for IT […]

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The Role of Data & Analytics in Digital Transformation

Feb 28th, 2019

What if you overheard a health plan CIO give this command: “Alexa, over the last three months, which New York providers received the most payment for treatment of out-of-state patients with chronic conditions?” Ridiculous, right? After all, Alexa is merely a voice-activated assistant, not a miracle worker. But maybe it’s not so ridiculous. Maybe the […]

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Digital Projects v. Digital Transformation: Three Essentials for IT-Driven Business Outcomes

Nov 19th, 2018

It’s no longer enough to just keep IT systems operating and available every day or to keep digital innovation projects on track and on budget. CIOs need to be able to deliver against an IT strategy that drives measurable business outcomes. It’s not an either/or proposition, but a delicate balancing act that requires an unprecedented […]

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How to Make BI More Effective and Maximize ROI

Jan 10th, 2018

There are several ways to increase the effectiveness of healthcare business intelligence and maximize the return on investment from these efforts. Evaluate Current BI Capability Historically, the major cost of implementing BI solutions has been the massive overhead of buying necessary technology and expertise, which discourages many organizations from pursuing BI. Knowing that the project […]

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How Healthcare Data Can Disrupt Care—for the Better

Aug 30th, 2017

The U.S. healthcare industry is broken: It’s too expensive, there aren’t enough primary care doctors, and care is reactive instead of proactive. A salve for many of these issues is data analytics. Important answers can come from crunching large data sets: an initiative in Paris, for example, involves four hospitals that are crunching a decade’s […]

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3 Ways Healthcare BI Can Boost Your Bottom Line

May 3rd, 2017

As more patient data becomes available through the rapid adoption of electronic health records and regulations for treating these patients grow as part of the Affordable Care Act, healthcare providers are increasingly turning to business intelligence (BI) software to help them make evidence-based decisions across the clinical, operational and financial spectrum. Healthcare BI is providing […]

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4 Ways to Use Healthcare BI to Harness the Hospital Supply Chain

Feb 1st, 2017

There was a time when hospital supply chain leaders were in charge of ordering products and making sure those products were kept in stock. Those days are over. Increasingly, supply chain managers are tasked with a range of responsibilities relating to the cost, quality and outcomes of the healthcare delivered in their hospitals. To meet […]

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Get More From Clinical Analytics with BI Systems Support

Dec 28th, 2016

Clinical decision support systems are critical components to helping healthcare companies make decisions, improve patient care and population health, and control costs. However, analyzing financial, operational and quality control data is also key to achieving those goals. Business intelligence (BI) efforts in healthcare provide a foundation of information and key insights on which to build. […]

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5 Ways Healthcare BI Systems Help Contain Costs

Dec 14th, 2016

With U.S. healthcare spending reaching a high of $3 trillion or $9,523 per person, according to recent estimates, providers and payers are looking to big data to reduce costs and meet the needs of a growing patient population. The widespread adoption of electronic health records has helped advance this effort, boosting the quality and quantity […]

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Using Data to Achieve the Triple Aim

Nov 16th, 2016

The triple aim of healthcare is to achieve good quality of care, low costs and improved population health. It was a term dubbed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2008 when it created a framework for optimizing health system performance by simultaneously focusing on the health of a population, the experience of care for […]

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