Analytics

Healthcare's revenue cycle management processes are undergoing lightning-fast change on many different fronts: "Providers are now, in earnest, starting to grasp how quickly this paradigm shift is occurring."

Alphabet, the new parent company for Google's many boundary-pushing projects, will be home to much of the search giant's work in the healthcare realm, such as glucose-sensing contact lenses.

Today is the last day to submit a speaking proposal for the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, Nov. 4-6. Presentations should be practical, actionable and solutions-based.

The use of big data and analytics tools faces many challenges, including EHRs, interoperability, data de-identification and more.

Several big-bucks deals and partnerships struck us recently -- not just because of their price tags, but also because they could prove to be game changers for health IT, now and far into the future. Here are nine worth watching for their effect on the industry.

Healthcare improvement alliance Premier will spend $400 million to acquire CECity, a privately-held, SaaS-based healthcare solutions company. Much like Premier, CECity focuses on performance management and improvement, pay-for-value reporting and professional education.

Big Blue scoops up the medical imaging technology provider and plans to integrate the acquired products with its Watson supercomputing and analytics capabilities.

Health Catalyst has acquired Health Care DataWorks, a company with roots in Ohio State University, and one that works on improving patient outcomes much like Health Catalyst does.

Global pharmaceutical company Allergan is expanding its collaboration with ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare to include women's health, starting with work on intrauterine devices.

To be maximally effective, policymakers are going to have to modernize the regulatory system so it can support big data analytics for genomic research.