Analytics

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016, scheduled for September 12-13.

While precision medicine – the medical model that focuses on the customization of healthcare and tailors decision-making, practices and treatments to the individual – has been evolving in the last 20 years, but recent advancements are enabling it to be applied for treating diseases.

Chief Data Officer, Nicholas Marko, MD, outlines three strategies that have helped Geisinger become a large scale data-centric organization.  

Geisinger Chief Data Officer Nicholas Marko, MD, says deriving value from data depends on a sound roadmap. Here’s a look at how to determine what you need to get there.

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Intermountain also led a $12 million funding round that Zebra said it will use to build out its analytics engine with machine learning algorithms for diagnosing imaging scans. 

Nearly two years after implementing workforce analytics, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has saved more than $10 million on costs by addressing staff issues and increasing employee engagement.

Chipmaker said that Lumiata will use the money to drive predictive analytics to improve risk and care management for organizations practicing population health. 

The former CMIO of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation made a new move that he said will enable him to help change healthcare in a systemized manner.

Much the way consumer analytics fundamentally improved how products and services are sold, healthcare analytics will one day change the way providers deliver care. But Sriram Vishwanath contends that a lot has to happen before that day comes.