Analytics

The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics will act as a hub for innovation and research on disease modeling to meet the needs of decision-makers.

Population health efforts can be a "steep hill to climb," said leaders from Highmark and Geisinger during a recent HIMSS21 Digital presentation, but the tools exist to help ensure effective innovation.

The major Texas health system uses data to inform a more proactive approach across the board, its chief medical officer says – with successful programs in colorectal screening, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and SDOH.

At Penn Medicine, integrated product teams – comprising data scientists, physicians and software engineers, among others – are helping improve AI and machine learning applications.

Blockholders released 2,460 OR hours in the first four months of 2021 – and overall OR utilization has increased by 5%.

At a HIMSS21 Views from the Top session, experts explained how to maximize the value of available information by optimizing data supply chains.

National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi and Dr. Daniel Jernigan, acting deputy director for public health science and surveillance at the CDC, say it's vital to overcome data-sharing barriers.

GE Healthcare leverages VMware for cloud-based services. Synapse Consulting debuts healthcare analytics platform. Consensus Cloud Solutions unveils two new products for interoperability.

“I think those APIs for consumers will be as transformative as APIs have been for music, in printing, in travel, in banking and retail,” said Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health IT, at a HIMSS21 lightning session.

Integrating clinical, claims data key in one Delaware organization's response to COVID-19