Analytics

The biggest hindrance to progress is that tools like artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning conjure images of sci-fi movies rather than real-world uses. Here’s what one Harvard Medical School expert said needs to happen next.

The value of Connected Health in the form of coordinated care across the continuum for high-quality care and improved health outcomes can only be realized when three barriers are successfully addressed.

A prominent MIT healthcare economist explains how Big Data can be misleading and discusses methods for properly studying such information.

Unknown malware attacks have increased nine-fold from 2015, driven primarily by employees who accidentally install malicious software onto their company's network – at a rate of every four seconds, according to a recent Check Point report.

A portion of the funding will develop Biohub, a new research facility that will connect the University of California San Francisco, UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

PwC ranked healthcare’s most pressing trends, some of which will grow the system, while others are more likely to limit growth. 

The organizations announced a collaboration on joint products and services for sharing health data under value-based care models.

Union General spent $50,000 to launch an analytics program that enabled staff to spend more time on delivering care and uncovered best practices that reduced readmissions.

Eighty-five percent of providers are currently in RCM replacement mode or assessment, according to the newest Black Book Market Research report.

CEO Jonathan Bush said athenaInsight will mine the company’s network of providers and patients to determine what works at high-performing hospitals as well as the drivers of physician engagement and public health trends.