We are in San Francisco this week at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference. This is a great event, and there are a lot of themes being evaluated by the conference attendees. One hot topic from our blog is how to create sustainable Accountable Care models. This Thursday late morning session was standing room […]
Posts Tagged ‘analytics’
Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics
Today I spoke in a webinar entitled “Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics”. During this presentation I covered a number of topics around business intelligence in healthcare and specifically around an approach called targeted analytics. I reviewed some of the options available today to healthcare organizations and provided an example of building an enterprise […]
Increased Access to Data Increases Patient Satisfaction
I recently read that 78% of patients believe EHRs boost care. What was my reaction to this news? I immediately thought, “Just wait until patients see what all of the technologies that EHRs enable can do.” Business intelligence is a perfect example. Data warehouses and data analytics provide physicians with the tools and technologies they […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Positive Outcomes from #HealthIT
It’s always heart-warming when we can see the results of our work and the human impact – when healthcare analytics and reported outcomes drive to a better patient experience and positive outcomes. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently referenced good systems being able to generate outcomes information at Texas Children’s Hospital in a speech he gave […]
Which Social Media Metrics Matter…..and to Whom
Alan Weintraub tweeted about this blog post by Nate Elliott at Forrester. He takes a look at how social media metrics should be different depending on who is looking at the data. Keeping in mind that his is focused on social media and not what I would term social networking (see previous blog post), I […]
Master Patient Index: A Foundational Component to Excellence
An enterprise master patient index (EMPI) is the glue that holds together all things patient related. It provides the foundation for improved patient safety and outcomes, as well as a positive patient experience. The issue I’ve seen is that a lot of healthcare organizations don’t havea comprehensive, consistent, EMPI. So why are organizations in this […]
Why Aren’t You Leveraging Analytics in Your Organization?
Analytics can offer a wide range of benefits to healthcare organizations. It can provide information to make better decisions on or impact quality of care, patient outcomes, cost containment, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. At a theoretical level, healthcare organizations understand these benefits. In fact, implementing analytics is on the top ten list of many […]
Sesame Street Uses Liferay Portal
Gartner highlighted the CIO of Sesame Workshop, Noah Broadwater. What’s interesting is the sophistication of their network of sites and content. Here are some highlights: Use Liferay for portal. Scales nicely and they contribute to the open source community Heavily use Flash and are starting to create Adobe Air applications Use Akamai to stream content […]