Health Analytics

Data mining in health care is in its infancy, but it is a natural outgrowth of the EHR systems beginning to proliferate in the sector. Hospitals and group practices are mining data for many purposes, including identification of at-risk patients, trends in service line utilization, and improvement opportunities in the revenue cycle.

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5 Principles to Simplify Lean BI

May 18

These five considerations can get you started on the path toward more efficient and pointed business intelligence.

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

KLAS Ranks I.T. Outsource Companies

Joseph Goedert | May 17

A new report from vendor research firm KLAS Enterprises ranks customer satisfaction levels for eight companies offering outsourced health information technology services.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Vendor News

Tableau Sold as “DATA” in Stock Market Debut

Justin Kern of Information Management magazine | May 17

Analytics and visualization vendor Tableau Software introduced itself to Wall Street on May 17 by ringing the opening bell and starting sales of 8.2 million shares of common stock at $31.

Group Practices

Payers

Hospitals

Vendor News

200 Million Rows of Data and Counting

Gary Baldwin | May 13

At the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, the former cost-modeling effort was a bit of a crapshoot when it came to accuracy.

Consumer Health

Decision Support

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Which Hospitals Get an ‘A’ for Patient Safety?

Joseph Goedert | May 09

In the Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2013 update of its Hospital Safety Score, 780 out of 2,514 analyzed hospitals get an “A” grade for their efforts to protect patients from infections, injuries, and medical and medication errors.

Payers

Hospitals

Consumer Health

Policy & Regulation

Congress Asked to Fund Network to Track Infections

Joseph Goedert | May 08

Thirty health care and patient safety organizations have sent a letter to Congress asking for $31.5 million to fund the National Healthcare Safety Network, which tracks healthcare-associated infections.

Disease Management

Data Repositories

Hospitals

Payers

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Free Software to Aid Analysis of Medicare Claims Data

Joseph Goedert | May 03

Archimedes Inc. is offering free data analytics software to analyze Medicare claims data from 2008 through 2010 under a collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Coding

Electronic Data Interchange

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Policy & Regulation

Premier Survey: I.T. Top Capital Investment for Hospitals

Joseph Goedert | May 03

In the Spring 2013 Economic Outlook from provider alliance Premier Inc. that included surveying 530 hospitals and health systems, 43 percent of respondents expect health information technology and telecommunications to be its largest capital investment during the next year.

Hospitals

Chronic Care

Coding

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Health HIT Vendor News Round-up: Explorys, Omnicell, RGP Healthcare & NextGen

Joseph Goedert | May 03

New sales or introductions of data analytics, medication management, incident management and ICD-10 software are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:

Payers

Hospitals

Group Practices

Medication Management

Coding

Policy & Regulation

Vendor News

Tackling Data Analytics Means Knowing What Questions to Ask

Joe McKendrick | May 02

More than ever, insurers are sitting on treasure troves of data, just waiting to be extracted from policy administration systems, claims files, insurance application information and customer service center engagements, and analyzed.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Editor's Note: Analyzing the Real World

Greg Gillespie | May 01

A recent report by research firm IDC Health Insights tagged analytics as the No. 1 technology priority for organizations engaging in accountable care.

Data Repositories

Decision Support

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Consumer Health

Chronic Care

He Wrote the Book

Elizabeth Gardner | May 01

If you want to explain to people in other industries exactly what you do and why it's so interesting and challenging, Phil Fasano has written a book for you to give them.

EHR

Hardware

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Consumer Health

Decision Support

Chronic Care

Disease Management

Top HIS Vendors by Revenue

Vince Ciotti and Bob Alcaro | May 01

How does your HIS vendor rank in terms of annual revenue?

Hospitals

EHR

Vendor News

Most Wasteful States for Prescription Meds

May 01

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Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Medication Management

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Biobank Program for Personalized Medicine Hits 25K Enrollees

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

Twenty-five thousand individuals now have enrolled in the Mount Sinai Biobank Program of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, the organization announced on April 29.

Data Repositories

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Hospitals

EHR

Systems Integration