Analytics

Health orgs trekking deeper into analytics should expect a new information wave, understand that crowdsourcing can pay off, know machine learning is real right now, buckle down on governance. And don’t hold out for perfection. 

Healthcare IT News interviewed several experts at the forum on a range of topics spanning cost, risk, technologies, challenges and successes. 

Panelists at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum shared advice about engaging clinicians and patients, persuading the C-suite to support analytics investments, bridging the gap between IT and business, and more.

Critical success factors for making human capital management a strategic asset.

Yet the industry has more potential for care improvement and ROI than others that have already adopted the technologies. 

Bank forges digital tech partnerships with Gem, PokitDok, and others on services for healthcare claims management. 

Predictive analytics are not going to be perfect. But that’s okay. Experts explain the sweet spot to target today.  

Benson Hsu, MD, vice president of data and analytics at Sanford Health, explains how sharing data with 'smart people' from outside the health system has led to some innovative applications for population health management.

Peter Embi, MD, an internationally recognized expert in biomedical informatics, will leave his post as interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for research informatics at Ohio State University’s College of Medicine, to join Regenstrief Institute as CEO.

Hospitals that haven't started making data actionable, explainable, trusted and contextualized should start now. Why the urgency? In two or three years, finding talented data scientists and other skilled workers is only going to get more difficult.