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Health care business intelligence systems

• Hospitals prescribe engagement for better patient-doctor relationship

  Treating patients more like customers. It's a simple concept that hospitals find more practical, thanks to the availability of patient engagement tools and techniques borrowed from the domain of the retail industry. The challenge is for health IT ... Continue Reading

• The power of a health bot lies in patient administration

  Learn how providers can conserve their resources by using healthcare bots for administrative duties such as appointment scheduling, billing and processing payments. Continue Reading

• BI in healthcare is both appreciated and underused

  Providers can now do more than analyze past patient data with healthcare BI tools. They can possibly reduce readmissions and assign facility resources with predictive analytics. Continue Reading

• ICD-10 conversion could disturb revenue cycles

  Revenue cycle management professionals seem to have reluctantly accepted that the ICD-10 conversion won't be a smooth process. Continue Reading

• What IT skills are essential to dig into healthcare big data?

  To harness big data in healthcare, your staff needs the right mix of IT skills. Joel Vengco, CIO at Baystate Health, explains. Continue Reading

• Analytics a way to keep clinical operations in check

  Healthcare providers have many internal moving parts to keep track of, in addition to federal regulations bearing down on them. Find out how improving their analytics can help them stay a step ahead.Continue Reading

• Productive healthcare analytics results from high-quality data

  Data quality, not quantity, is the key to maximizing a healthcare analytics initiative. Learn how to optimize health data governance.Continue Reading

• Healthcare interoperability, analytics get top billing in health IT

  If the interest in exhibits at recent conferences is any indication, healthcare interoperability remains a priority for providers and vendors alike.Continue Reading

• Troubleshooting tips for BI and clinical analytics issues

  As use of clinical analytics and business intelligence grows in healthcare, so does the need for troubleshooting these data systems.Continue Reading

• Five areas of focus for a healthcare business intelligence program

  Defining healthcare business intelligence is the first step towards its use. A book on the subject has all of its definitions covered.Continue Reading

• Enterprise data warehousing needed in era of electronic health records

  More data, more problems? Find out why that's not the case in healthcare when providers take the right approach to enterprise data warehousing.Continue Reading

• Reimbursement outlook not slowing health IT implementation

  A healthcare CIO explains the challenges his organization faces while sticking to its health IT implementation plan and keeping under budget.Continue Reading

• Implementing population health management as health IT budgets shrink

  How does a nonprofit hospital system implement population health management when its IT budget shrinks? Christus Health's George Conklin weighs in.Continue Reading

• Five can't-miss strategies for getting the most out of HIMSS 2014

  If you're going to HIMSS 2014, the massive program, exhibit hall and events lineup can be daunting. Here's how to make it work.Continue Reading

• A healthcare data analyst faces more sophisticated information needs

  Healthcare data is becoming more sophisticated and data analysts have to be aware of important principles before they are ready to use analytics.Continue Reading