Analytics

Transparency with fair data usage is being explored in Finland, while the country's general outlook is that data should be shared and used to improve services where possible, says Jaana Sinipuro, project director at Sitra.

Community Health Network also uses BI tools to track issues and identify trends, reporting them to key operational leaders to highlight areas for process improvement.

The CFO of the analytics company, which has been mulling a stock offering for years, says capital raised from shareholders will help it gain the size and scope it needs to achieve its mission.

Universal Health Services runs more than 15,000 tests per day to ensure that patient-critical applications and records are available for physicians and clinicians.

Forty-nine percent of surveyed physicians who had remained independent since 2011 attested to meaningful use of EHRs.

Salesforce Health Cloud can help providers aggregate, analyze and make actionable the data providers need to address social determinants of health, says Dr. Joshua Newman, chief medical officer at Salesforce.

As part of the deal, which involves nonclinical technologies, about 540 health system staff will become Optum employees.

Phoenix Children's Hospital is deploying analytics for its chronic disease management program, longitudinally tracking patients with an actionable dashboard, says Chief Medical Information Officer Vinay Vaidya.

Castell will offer technologies and services to guide care decisions, manage patient experience, implement virtual care, address social determinants and more, building from the health system's own best practices.

Population health management vendor SPH Analytics is merging with SA Ignite, which develops tools to help providers optimize their performance scores for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.