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Digging Into Data
Oct 25th, 2019The amount of healthcare data that exists has grown tremendously over the past 20 plus years due to the emergence of big data, and while its potential is seemingly limitless, data is useless if it’s not actionable. This begs the question: where do we, as an industry, begin? Data is a critical tool for healthcare […]
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Embrace Data; Focus on Consumers
Jul 10th, 2019America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is the national association whose members provide coverage for healthcare and related services. AHIP strives to improve and protect the health and financial security of consumers, families, businesses and communities, working together to make healthcare better. I recently attended the AHIP Institute and Expo 2019 in Nashville, where the best […]
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Understanding the Challenges of Data Migration
May 21st, 2019emids delivered a GUI-based ETL middleware tool which leveraged Microsoft SQLServer, Snaplogic and a .Net interface. Overview One of the main reasons many organizations, especially at the enterprise level, continue to use older or legacy systems is the challenge of updating all of the “jobs” or interfaces which move data into and out of those […]
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Fear and Loathing in Data Liquidity (a health IT cult classic)
May 13th, 2019[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]If technology is finally catching up to people’s vision of its ability to transform the healthcare experience, then what’s the hold up? Some say it’s fear. Fear that technology’s fuel — health data — is a commodity that people […]
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Data Governance, Data Liquidity and the Data Chain of Trust
May 2nd, 2018How the right data governance model can help healthcare organizations meet the demands of digital transformation By Randy Thomas, FHIMSS Senior Director, Value-based Consulting Value-based care. Population health management. Digital health. Healthcare consumerism. Promoting interoperability. All these evolving healthcare opportunities require consistent, accurate, reliable data. While the quantity of data created in healthcare continues to […]
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Using Data to Transform the Consumer Experience
Mar 1st, 2018As patient data becomes more diverse and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning make analytics more intuitive, opportunities are growing for connecting disparate data throughout the healthcare industry and using it to make decisions, predict needs, identify risks, and strengthen trust and relationships with consumers. In healthcare organizations, CIOs are leading these […]
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How Healthcare Data Can Disrupt Care—for the Better
Aug 30th, 2017The 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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Sharing Healthcare Data Across Alliances
Mar 1st, 2017The ability to share healthcare data efficiently is crucial. For example, if provider A orders a diagnostic test, provider B doesn’t need to repeat it a week later. Sharing healthcare data can also illuminate areas of improvement that can drive quality up and costs down, from reducing medication errors to ensuring more accurate diagnoses. Healthcare […]