July 27, 2012 1:57 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
clinical data analytics,
health information exchange,
HIE,
HIPAA,
public healthUp in my neck of the New Hampshire woods, folks are up in arms - as well they should be - about a gut-wrenching story involving a nearby hospital and an employee who appears to have deliberately infected patients with hepatitis C for up to a year before he was discovered.
Of course the crimes...
April 23, 2012 3:12 PM
Posted by: Beastwood
AMA,
clinical data analytics,
ICD-10,
ICD-10 implementation,
SNOMED CTThe ongoing push for more descriptive medical diagnostic codes -- the alphabet soup that is SNOMED CT, LOINC and, in the United States at least, ICD-10 -- is motivated in part by a desire to improve data analytics for a host of clinical, billing and administrative purposes.
However, there can be...
April 6, 2012 11:18 AM
Posted by: AnneSteciw
CDS and data analytics,
clinical data analytics,
Clinical IT,
health ITWhen you're ankle-deep in implementing high-tech health IT solutions to improve the quality of patient care, it can be easy to forget that it's the low-tech solutions -- like hand washing -- that often have the biggest impact on patient outcomes. But one of the great benefits of health IT...
March 28, 2012 3:28 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
clinical data analytics,
EHR,
HIT software vendors,
InteroperabilityThe other day, a funny thing happened on the way to writing a story. I was jawing with Scott Opitz, CEO of Altosoft, whose company markets its own analytics platform for many industries, including health care.
He's got an interesting perspective on this whole matter of
January 19, 2012 4:15 PM
Posted by: AnneSteciw
big data,
clinical data analytics,
health data storage,
patient data securityIt's no surprise that more pundits are starting to sing about big data and health care sittin' in a tree -- after all, the health care industry generates huge volumes of data, much of it unstructured. A
March 30, 2011 11:35 AM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
accountable care organizations,
ACO,
clinical data analytics,
Health care reform and federal initiatives,
HMOAccountable care organizations (ACOs) promise to lower health care costs while raising the quality of care and saving the U.S. health care system from bankruptcy, all in one fell swoop. Pardon our jaded perspective, but that sounds pretty optimistic for a concept that smells like a health...
