Category: Analytics
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Personalized medicine ‘arms race’ continues rapid escalation
Joining an ever-growing list of healthcare facilities looking to improve personalized medicine, Oregon Health & Science University this week announced a partnership with Intel Corp. aimed at speeding genomic analysis efforts.
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Analysis: Slow growth in health spending largely due to recession, weak economy
The recession and weak recovery are by far the biggest culprits behind recent record-slow growth in health spending, according to a new analysis. The results suggest that any relief enjoyed by employers, households or state and federal budgets as…
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Dashboard technology holds potential as patient clinical decision aid
An interactive decision dashboard format developed by researchers with the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine & Dentistry can be adapted to create a clinically realistic prototype patient decision aid, according to an article published this week in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . Such findings, the researchers say, represent the potential of…
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Translating clinical quality measures for queries proves complex
Massachusetts General Hospital computer scientists claim some success in translating between the Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) and Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) though the work has been time consuming and complex. read more
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HIStalk Interviews Keith Figlioli, SVP Healthcare Informatics, Premier
Keith Figlioli is senior vice president of healthcare informatics of Premier of Charlotte, NC. Give me some background about yourself and your job. I’m the senior vice president of healthcare informatics at Premier
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Tough problems sought for data-analytics contest
There are $300,000 in prizes up for grabs in a new, two-year healthcare data-analytics contest, but first, the sponsors of the competition want healthcare providers and others to identify their knottiest data difficulties so future contestants will…
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Health system analytics project targets at-risk populations
Catholic Health Initiatives is teaming with Accenture on a nine-month initiative using analytics to identify ways to better monitor and improve care for at-risk populations. The project also aims to… read more
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CHI aims to tap data analytics to ID health risks
Catholic Health Initiatives is addressing its current health information technology needs by looking to the future.
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Moody’s: Sequestration adds on new financial pressures for non-profit hospitals
Also in the news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun auditing some of the physicians who qualify for a Medicare EHR “meaningful use” bonus before they even receive a check — a step that has triggered grumbling from organized medicine.
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$3 million prize awaits in health IT competition
A California independent practice association has announced the close to new entrants in its two-year, $3 million Big Data analytic software competition.