Posts Tagged ‘healthcare analytics’

In my last blog posting, I talked about the need for Data Governance and Data Stewardship to work collaboratively across business units and that organizations should be formed over time to help enable this collaboration. While no two Data Governance programs are identical, below is an example structure which might be adopted, in a phased […]

The Revenue Cycle is the operational process an organization follows to bring cash into the hospital. Revenue Cycle Management is about monitoring this process to identify strong and weak points in this process. In this video I will demonstrate how to use business intelligence tools to manage your revenue cycles. This will cover considerations around […]

The U.S. healthcare industry has come head-to-head with tremendous challenges that have the potential to cripple the industry and reap havoc on multiple stakeholders, whose different interests and incentives have made change and progress difficult. However, a new era of data-driven healthcare is emerging as players are starting to explore the power of “big data.” […]

Much has been touted about Big Data being “schema-less,” thus minimizing data modeling, especially Physical Data Modeling. At a low level (e.g., Map Reduce level), there is some truth to this as Map Reduce works with key value pairs. In the Map phase of a Map Reduce job, the input data is read in and […]

There is growing interest in Big Data these days. The common definition for Big Data is data sets which are too large (e.g., hundreds of terabytes or into petabytes) to be handled by traditional means. Leveraging Big Data requires an extensive degree of parallelism of both data and computing and may take advantage of low-cost […]

The biggest challenge in today’s healthcare environment is the use of clinical data. Everybody knows that the healthcare industry is “behind the times” compared to other industries when it comes to using data to drive meaningful outcomes, largely due to the complexity of healthcare data. However, with rising costs, constant regulatory changes, and ever-increasing competition, […]

Join us Wednesday, May 30, at 12:00 PM CDT, for the Perficient webinar, “Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations & Analytics.” Register now! Healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges due to regulatory and reimbursement requirements and the everyday pressures of managing care. Providers must be proactive to manage the health of a population […]

Spurred on by Meaningful Use, there has been an explosion in the implementation of EHRs over the last several years. This tidal wave has been sweeping through the healthcare community, sucking up much of the available bandwidth that organizations have to deal with change of this magnitude. The effect is really no different than what […]

Farzad Mostashari , in a meeting with the National Quality Forum in late April, says, “In 2016, it’s going to be rare to find a doctor without EHRs.” He went on to say we need to “… find people who have done it, who understand deeply what it takes and not just the challenges but […]

A recent article in the WSJ displayed how improving the health of patients is tied to being able to see the big picture. It just so happens that to improve the health of an organization, there is also a need to see the big picture, which requires having access to data. Research has shown that […]

Portal technology has evolved to the point that sites are being built that give the user access to the tools they need to use every day, all day long. This is done by defining roles and configuring the portal to display the tiles that support those roles based on the user’s credentials. If the user […]

Metrics are essential measurements to determine if a project is meeting the established goals of time, delivery and budget constraints. This may be a bit off the requirements blog norm, but worth the mention. There has been a change in the market where the ROI (Return on Investment) is not a requirement in the eyes […]