Posts Tagged ‘population health’

For those in the healthcare industry, topics such as population health, precision medicine and connected care have been top of mind, and rightly so. While these topics create a lot of buzz in the industry, it is the foundational capabilities of an organization that are key to making population health, precision medicine and connected care […]

In 2016 we will continue to see healthcare organizations focused on the 2 D’s. Digital and Data. In our recent guide, 10 Healthcare Analytics Trends for 2016, we take a look at ten analytics trends healthcare executives need to be thinking about in 2016 and beyond.

  As we wrap up 2015 I wanted to take a look back at our most popular blog posts for the year. It is not a surprise that some of the more popular posts were about analytics, digital transformation and value-based care. Here are the top 10 posts from 2015:   #10. Empowering Patients: Engaging […]

INTEGRATE CLINICAL AND CLAIMS DATA TO ENABLE POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT INSIGHT Technology-enabled population health initiatives have traditionally relied solely on either clinical data or claims data. While this method has value, there is a tremendous opportunity for healthcare organizations to take population health efforts to the next level by integrating both clinical and claims data. […]

In a recent post on Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Analyst Skip Snow (@SkipSnow) interviewed Epic President, Carl Dvorak, on Epic’s approach to population health. During the interview Dvorak emphasized the importance of closing gaps across the continuum of care and integrating data from external systems: “We also work to help create a population health management […]

Northwestern Medicine (formerly Cadence Health) recently chose Epic to manage their population health initiatives and value-based care relationships across the continuum of care. Rob Desautels, Director, IT, Northwestern Medicine, recently joined Perficient for and educational webinar on leveraging Epic Cogito to enable value-based care. In the above snippet from the webinar, Rob delivers a detailed […]

Over 42,000 healthcare IT enthusiasts and thought leaders attended HIMSS15 this year in Chicago. Thousands of others joined form various locations using social media to engage in the conversations. The HIT Super Bowl did not disappoint those in attendance and those joining the social media conversations. The conversations were around several different health IT topics […]

I’m learning lots at HIMSS this week about remote patient monitoring. I’m very interested in the subject of harvesting data from patient monitoring devices and mashing it up with structured data about patients. I am awestruck when I consider the possibilities. “Personal IT” and remote patient monitoring technologies (RPM) are set for incredible growth and […]

Quality Improvement processes are an essential part of the clinical care continuum. I was a math major in college (way back when) and I “buy-in” to the science around statistical process control charts and statistical methods employed in QI. At the end of the day, in my opinion, science is the basis for improving the […]

Holy Cow!! (Little tribute to Chicago legend, Harry Caray!) The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference has come back to Sweet Home Chicago. Nearly 38,000 HIMSS15 attendees will fill Chicago’s McCormick Place April, 12-16, 2015. It’s a given that there will be many conversations about the Chicago Cubs, deep dish pizza, the crazy […]

I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago about patient-powered research and I want to follow it up with a focus on population health. Population health efforts are intensely data-driven and require more data than is captured between the walls of hospitals or clinics. I’m working on an initiative right now to plan out […]

I was at the Population Health Colloquium this past week presenting with @LesliAdams from Oracle’s HSGBU Strategy Team discussing the age old question of “Who champions the EDW in a hospital setting?” Our presentation explored four types of change (Evolutionary, Disruptive, Imposed and Deliberate) and how all are needed in Healthcare. Group polling revealed that […]