Analytics
Health organizations are often moving too quickly from EHR implementation to population health and risk-based contracts, glossing over (or skipping entirely) the crucial step of evaluating the quality of the data they're using.
Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talks about CMS' initiatives in predictive modelling to identify fraud, real time delivery system monitoring and increasing transparency in healthcare data.
Jeff Fuller, Director of Analytics at Carolinas Healthcare System, describes how his organization's approach to analytics started with a research focus on predictive analytics and innovations and has shifted to operational cost control and quality.
James A. Colbert, MD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses how to use data to create a high-value referral network for specialty care and reduce costs.
Brian Wells, Associate VP of Health Technology and Academic Computing at Penn Medicine, talks about the PennSeek application and the effort to index and connect different types of data to make it accessible and effective for precision medicine.
Jonathan Weiner discusses the topics of his presentation from the 2015 Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in NYC: the future of EHRs and other data sources for population health.
With Stage 2 meaningful use, ICD-10, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the Affordable Care Act dominating the agenda these past few years, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO John Halamka, MD, is doing some research to help reshape next priorities.
John Paganini, Senior Manager for Interoperability Initiatives at HIMSS, talks about the HIMSS Innovation Center offerings as well as the new ConCert by HIMSS virtual certification program.
Bert Zimmerli, EVP and CFO at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses the future of revenue cycle management in healthcare, especially in the context of connected health.
Raymond A. Gensinger, Jr., MD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, discusses his bestselling HIMSS book, Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction, at HIMSS15.