Analytics

The analytics vendor combined new capabilities including machine learning to automate the process of finding, stratifying, enrolling and communicating with patients eligible for CCM. 

KCBP analyst Mary Meeker noted that the next wave of big data will be all about leveraging existing infrastructure for both analyst and knowledge workers to improve people’s lives and the ways businesses operate. That includes healthcare organizations. 

Froedtert medical Director James Thomas said Watson for Clinical Trial Matching is expected to make better matches and do so more quickly.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016, scheduled for September 12-13.

While precision medicine – the medical model that focuses on the customization of healthcare and tailors decision-making, practices and treatments to the individual – has been evolving in the last 20 years, but recent advancements are enabling it to be applied for treating diseases.

Chief Data Officer, Nicholas Marko, MD, outlines three strategies that have helped Geisinger become a large scale data-centric organization.  

Geisinger Chief Data Officer Nicholas Marko, MD, says deriving value from data depends on a sound roadmap. Here’s a look at how to determine what you need to get there.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaking proposals for the annual Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum to be held in Boston, October 24-25.

Intermountain also led a $12 million funding round that Zebra said it will use to build out its analytics engine with machine learning algorithms for diagnosing imaging scans. 

Nearly two years after implementing workforce analytics, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has saved more than $10 million on costs by addressing staff issues and increasing employee engagement.