When hospitals are inundated with acutely sick patients, data can help overwhelmed staff and providers allocate resources and care more efficiently. For example, stratification tools can group patients based on risk, enabling healthcare organizations to divert patients to the most appropriate site of care.
For healthcare organizations experiencing difficulty launching and sustaining data-driven performance improvement projects, one potential solution to consider is more flexible organization design and increasing self-service data access.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Public health is heavily dependent on collecting and sharing accurate patient data. Standards for data collection and interoperability can move the needle toward better health data, but it is up to healthcare organizations to take ownership of their data quality by following best practices and adopting technologies that can detect and eliminate bad patient data before it is disseminated.
Healthcare organizations that delay consolidating tech stacks and optimizing healthcare operations will continue to hemorrhage money, incur costly penalties and compliance violations, and lose staff due to operational and workforce inefficiencies.
Digital maturity will require shared data standards, strategies for streamlining data management and a collaborative approach that involves all players in the biopharma supply chain.
MedCity News connected with Integra Connect's COO, Cory Wiegert at ViVE 2023 to discuss how their new platform will go beyond the "one size fits all" approach to data curation.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In healthcare, we need honest methodologies that accurately capture both the cost and complexity of specialty care and deliver a reliable ROI calculation. Only this sort of replicable, high-integrity ROI calculation can truly associate accessing high quality specialists with lower cost and better outcomes amidst today’s healthcare access and affordability crisis.
Valuable digital data is a relatively new phenomenon in the history of healthcare. Providers need to think of it in a new way — not as a byproduct, but as another valuable outcome they are generating as they do their jobs and care for patients.
Wearable patient devices can provide healthcare organizations with more varied data, expand options for clinical trials, and make patients more active participants in their own care.
Emerging technologies hold the potential to protect doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders while driving up efficiencies for manual tasks and processes and enhancing productivity.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The increasing costs of labor and supplies are the top issues keeping healthcare CFOs up at night, according to a new report. Even though providers' margins are currently quite tight, the report recommended that healthcare organizations adopt data analytics software to remedy these concerns and help with important decisions like how to effectively manage their existing workforce and where to shift care delivery models.
Intus Care, a predictive analytics platform designed to improve care outcomes among geriatric patients, recently closed a $14.1 million Series A funding round. The startup's mission is to improve the way PACE programs use their data so they can maintain and enhance the quality of care they provide to vulnerable seniors.
Healthcare organizations must ensure they have a data-literate workforce that is confident in using the data and is empowered in using it to make decisions. Here are some best practices that hospitals can implement to better empower their employees to make data-driven decisions.
Collecting SDOH, adding this data to patient profiles, enabling health data analytics, and taking data-based actions has proven to help significantly.
Truveta, a company owned by 17 U.S. health systems, will build its data analytics solution on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft will also help the company scale the solution globally and engage new customers.