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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.

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.

As part of the formal alliance announced Friday, ASU will build a 150,000-square-foot facility to house Mayo's new medical school and innovation center.

Healthgrades published its ratings of hospitals across the country, and also launched its Risk IQ Tool to help consumers assess their personal risk to six common surgical procedures.

HealthPromise program aims to prevent readmissions and boost outcomes by identifying at-risk patients and enrolling them in connected health initiatives. 

The president, along with researchers and scientists, explored the ways technology will improve healthcare and other industries at the day-long conference on Thursday.

PCORI awarded UCLA and four other sites the money to kick off the Late-life Depression, Stress and Wellness Program to conduct stress, mood, cognitive, genetic, brain scanning assessments and clinical studies.

Executives said the center will house several institutes dedicated to improving healthcare across the country and around the world as well as research and leadership initiatives.

The system helps provide nurses with a comprehensive, single-source view of the factors most associated with driving nursing excellence – quality, patient experience and nursing engagement, the vendor said.