Posts Tagged ‘predictive analytics’

Science Coming to Healthcare

By Greg Beck
Regional Business Director, Elsevier/MEDai

After graduating with a Master’s in Health Administration, I followed a career path into the hospital setting and was fortunate to build a telehealth /telemedicine program, from the ground up, for a large IDN in the Midwest.    This foray into Health Information Technology (HIT) was a great experience learning how technology applications can improve access to specialized healthcare and substantially improve the quality of life for patients in rural areas. Read More

Toward a Single Patient Truth: Deploying Predictive Analytics to Achieve Accountable Care

Driven by new and emerging models of accountable care, healthcare organizations must determine how to use data to address routine clinical, business and financial issues—from readmissions, patient safety and quality outcomes, to efficiency, rapid reimbursement, and population health management. Healthcare organizations have the opportunity to semantically harmonize and integrate data across the continuum of care and examine it at both micro and macro levels. It’s not an easy task.
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