Category: Analytics

The use of data analytics helped Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California hospitals achieve mortality rates 26 percent lower than at other hospitals in the system, according to Chief Medical Information Officer John Mattison. read more …read more

Let me concede from the outset that, in this blog post, I lean toward the negative—dire predictions, worst-case scenarios, a bit of doom and gloom, etc. But I ask you, oh gentle, patient reader, how could I not? Let’s go to the satellite. You can see warm air from a low-pressure system (Meaningful Use Stage…

Epic Systems, a Verona, Wisc.-based electronic health record (EHR) vendor, is being sued by a former employee for unpaid overtime, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal. Epic Systems, a Verona, Wisc.-based electronic health record (EHR) vendor, is being sued by a former employee for unpaid overtime, according to a report in the…

Text-mining the data in electronic health records can help identify patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and track the key clinical traits in the course of their disease, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). read more …read more

The majority of Australian health patients (78 per cent) believe they should have full access to electronic medical records, but roughly only 1 in 4 consumers (22 per cent) say this what they currently have, according Accenture’s nine-country survey of more than 9,000 consumers, including 1,002 Australians. These findings are also consistent with other research…

Healthcare provider IT organizations also are moving from “doing IT” to managing portfolios of IT service providers, IDC finds. They are rebalancing key roles among their portfolio service providers to avoid becoming too dependent on any one. Another observation: the first generation of EHRs will continue to fall short of the expectations of users because…

Russell P. Branzell, CEO of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, spoke exclusively to HCI’s Mark Hagland immediately following the announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement regarding the extension of Stage 2 of the meaningful use process under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical…

New Data Shows Rapid Adoption of EHRs; Announcements of 2015 Policies Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – which included the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs – was signed into law, the nation has seen unprecedented growth in the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Between 2009…

Healthcare executives have high expectations for the potential of big data, with a talent shortage and lack of resources being the biggest barriers to use, according to a new survey from the Society of Actuaries. read more …read more