Mercy Health is expanding its partisanship with Explorys,a Cleveland Clinic spinoff and data analytics company that will help the health system better track a number of patient efforts, including ACOs, Medicare Advantage and its own employee health plan. It will also include HealthSpan, which includes commercial health plans, Medicare and Medicaid plans, and serves big […]
“Big data” won’t do much to improve healthcare without big analytics. Thanks in part to billions in federal subsidies for electronic medical records (EMRs), it won’t be long before the U.S. is awash in vast, almost incomprehensible amounts of health data. It follows that developing the analytics to draw meaningful conclusions out of those mountains […]
Credit Steve McHale for having a knack for putting himself in the right place at the right time. Six years ago, McHale and partner Charlie Lougheed sold the previous company they founded, Everstream, for $15 million to Concurrent Computer. Everstream provided analytics and reporting around the then-emerging field of on-demand video. Now, with their new […]
