Analytics

Data science helps support digital transformation and enhances the patient experience, says Tammy Kwiatkoski, director of clinical informatics at HIMSS, who discusses the importance of nurse informaticians in healthcare.

The multiyear partnership will see the 63-hospital Tennessee health system deploying an array of analytics tools to advance patient care and boost population health.

The patient engagement partnership aims to help AMCs, pediatric providers, community hospitals and others close gaps in care, reduce readmissions and more.

John Kansky, president and CEO of Indiana Health Information Exchange, discusses how statewide and regional exchanges have evolved during the pandemic, and predicts where they're headed next.

The collaboration, which will see the health systems working with deidentified data for algorithm development and validation, will focus on patient outcomes and aim toward "personalized, predictive and proactive medicine."

"Neurocognitive health interventions must be multipronged and personal, which necessitates the use of digital tools to adequately equip health systems to meet this growing need," one expert says.

With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations.

INSIGHT Clinical Research Network – whose participants include Weill Cornell, Columbia, Mount Sinai and NYU Langone – currently has de-identified clinical, claims and SDOH data for more than 15 million patients.

The institute has been able to complete a typical sequencing workflow 6.5 times faster using the Lenovo GOAST system.

The sprawling health system recently rolled out logistics and analytics technologies to help manage its pharmacy supply chain – and has already been gaining efficiencies.