Although population health analytics begins with risk stratification it must quickly move to sub-population clinical analytics and individual patient analytics. Risk stratification as a science will continue to mature as providers continue to improve: Population demographic insight Clinical analytics targeting risk-stratified sub-populations Outcomes analytics based on risk-stratified sub-populations Wellness strategies for active and passive populations […]
Posts Tagged ‘population health’
HIT Solutions for Population Health
I’m going to take a “improve / disseminate disease management and improve outcomes of the group” view of Population Health. The technology solutions that can be applied are vast. For the sake of this blog, I’d like to talk about these four: Analytics – The accumulation and aggregation of data needed to improve outcomes and […]
Disease-Independent Enterprise Data Warehouse
Much of the industry efforts to date for personalized medicine have been disease specific and myopic in nature. While I believe this was necessary to evolve and mature, some organizations are taking a broader view of their data using advanced analytics to identify patient populations for targeted therapies that take into account an individual […]
Hot Topic: Retail Strategy for Healthcare #HITsm Tweet Chat
Participants of a tweet chat hosted by HL7 Health Standards on Friday, March 6, certainly had a lot to say on the topic: A Real Retail Strategy for Healthcare. The hour-long session drew 104 healthcare professionals who posted 980 tweets in response to five questions centered how the industry could benefit from the retail industry’s […]
No Easy Outs in Healthcare BI, but a New Approach
When you played baseball as a youngster, and stepped into the batter’s box, the last thing you wanted to be was an “easy out”. Ironically, today many healthcare organizations are looking for the “easy out” to rapidly develop the business intelligence reporting needed to address regulatory reporting demands, population health management and chronic condition management, […]
Patients Shopping for Quality and Value
Data from a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that individuals enrolled in high-deductible health plans are more likely to behave like consumers and seek data on price and quality before receiving care.1 This, combined with the effects of the Affordable Care Act, where trends are reflecting that more than 80% of […]
The “Secret Sauce” for Financial Transparency
Assembling the data needed to achieve financial transparency is both a technical and political challenge. My recent BLOG In Managing Finance at Hospitals, the Proof is in the Data discusses this in detail. I thought I’d take a moment now to discuss some of the software that combines clinical and financial data for cost management […]
A View From the Emergency Department Trenches
The Case for Patient Centered Medical Home, Care Coordination and Population Health Wellness The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is changing the way patients, physicians and clinicians interact with our healthcare system. At first glance, creating affordable healthcare for all is an amazing yet daunting initiative. In actuality, however, patients are now finding it difficult to […]
Following the Money Trail: Understanding the True Cost of Care
Healthcare leaders are challenged to understand the true costs associated with providing care. If you ask caregivers to determine their current workflow, they don’t really know where the patient and family go before or after each step of their care so the total care pathway is not in their purview. This is a well-known challenge […]
Combining Clinical and Financial Data for Cost Management
Terie McClintock, Director at Perficient, wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of merging clinical and financial data. Assembling this data requires a robust technical architecture that easily stores the data relationships with contextual integrity along with the ability to resolve patient or person identity. Once the data is assembled, leaders of the organization […]
In Managing Finance at Hospitals, the Proof is in the Data
Assembling data is both a technical and political challenge. I’ve been involved with multiple hospitals where the finance and clinical teams never really collaborate and therefore the lenses put on either domain is not terribly realistic. Truly merging and using the data requires clinical and financial leaders to establish trust and shared goals that promote […]
Healthcare at Oracle Industry Connect | #OracleIC14
Terie McClintock, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about Perficient’s Health Care presence at Oracle Industry Connect. The Health and Life Sciences breakouts will showcase how these organizations are implementing enterprise-wide data warehouses and analytics capabilities that provide a comprehensive view of healthcare operations—patient visits, diagnoses, test results, prescriptions, referrals, and more—making it possible […]