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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
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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
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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