Analytics

Mercy Health took a cue from its supply chain management machine learning success to bolster clinical pathways. The result: $14 million saved the first year, and Mercy is already on track to surpass that. But a VP says it's not just about the bottom line.  

Session ideas should focus on the cornerstones of population health: data and analytics, care coordination, patient engagement and experience and reimbursement.

Its combination of data scientists, new technologies and consultants will help clients move into value-based care, population health and precision medicine, OptumInsight CEO Bill Miller said.

The new entity will offer analytics, telehealth and workflow tools among its healthcare-centric products and services. 

Cybersecurity, analytics and population health have the attention and dollars of healthcare organizations, which also are beginning to invest in prescriptive analytics and artificial intelligence, a new Healthcare IT News survey finds.

The hospital and health information exchange leverage predictive analytics to create personalized care regimens that payoff by reducing readmissions and boosting patient outcomes. 

The organizations intend to apply Watson supercomputing capabilities to analyze EHR and claims data alongside social determinants of health to fuel personalized care and population management.

Although women make up 45 percent of the venture capital workforce, they are not landing the top jobs.

The company said enhanced versions of its products bring an expanded quality measure library for MIPS, improve care coordination for bundled payments and new tools to analyze care, outcomes and cost.

The company will use the cash to meet the expanding demand for its suite of SaaS-based customer relationship management software.