Analytics

Texas Health Resources recently received the Richard A. Norling Premier Alliance Excellence Award for its healthcare leadership. According to Ferdinand Velasco, MD, THR's vice president and CMIO, the award comes as a recognition of what the whole organization is doing around population health.

I was listening not long ago to All Things Considered, to a story about a new breed of 3D sensor-equipped cameras - artificial eyes, essentially, that can make out shape and form, navigating space and gauging its dimensions.

El Camino Hospital plans to add a new data warehouse as part of its broader initiative to implement LEAN process management and enhance organization-wide business intelligence.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the healthcare IT sector have seen considerable growth over the past year, with a significant portion of smaller, tactical deals yielding big return on investment, according to a report released Jan. 11.

The leading event in healthcare IT in Argentina and Latin America, which was held between November 28-30 2012 at the Hospital Italiano in Buenos Aires was free and part of the annual program of the hospital's healthcare IT department.

A new global study by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that the use of healthcare IT to increase medication adherence could be a key factor in saving some $500 billion in healthcare spending worldwide.

Deloitte Consulting announced Monday it has closed on a deal to acquire Recombinant Data Corporation, a Newton, Mass.-based healthcare data warehousing and analytics firm. The move signals the growing momentum toward using clinical data to transform healthcare, say Deloitte officials.

Health plans are heading toward 100 percent participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to a new study, with 78 percent of respondents already part of one, and 22 percent planning to participate in one. This is all leading to a scramble for health IT.

Managing a hospital's operations means dealing with data. Lots and lots of data. That's where executive information systems come in. And as healthcare moves towards hugely different paradigms of care delivery and reimbursement, they're only going to become more crucial to efficient operations.

Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting has found a way to put more health IT experts in the field with a new junior consultant program.