Analytics

The medical model focuses on customization of healthcare but a number of components need to be in place to make it successful.

The noted physician, software engineer and open science champion said that the hardest part of big data is knowing what questions to ask and finding people capable of figuring that out.

James E. Gaston, who is speaking at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum, added that most healthcare organizations struggle with the balance between traditional decision making versus data-based decisions.

The goal is to rapidly design, develop, prototype, and showcase new healthcare solutions.

Omicia to expand HIPAA-compliant, cloud-enabled platform for research, population health, clinical trials.

The newly formed company aims to help providers navigate from fee-for-service to value-based care and offer revenue cycle and analytics tools to make the transformation more effective.    

Leveraging data with key technology partners pays off for St. Joseph Healthcare, UnityPoint and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to improve clinical effectiveness.

Matching the right patients with the right data, in real-time, is how UnityPoint Health is helping providers and hospitals in Iowa, Western Illinois and Southern Wisconsin develop effective, quality care outcomes.

Universities are key incubators of "early-stage, high-risk, high-yield research that transfers to the private sector."

The cloud-based service, dubbed myAva, can be used to analyze biometric, genomic, molecular and patient-generated data to create digital profiles of patients that inform care plans.