topic: Data Leading Practices
A Health Care Data Revolution – The Case for Data Visualization By Mark Jahn
With data volumes increasing exponentially, health care can no longer rely on antiquated data presentation tools like spreadsheets and tables. What’s needed are new and creative means of data visualization to help users more effectively determine findings and trends, communicate analytical results, and make better business decisions.
Bringing Home the Blockchain Promise: Two Promising Applications By Chet Stagnaro
If you are thinking about a blockchain solution for your organization, it’s good to know which solutions are poised to deliver the greatest return on investment. This article highlights two of the most promising uses of blockchain in decentralized health care: digital distributed transactional ledgers and smart contracts.
5 Optimal Steps for Creating a Pilot Data Warehouse By Alan Stadelhofer
Rather than becoming frustrated by the potential vastness of a data warehouse build, consider instead the advantages of thinking small. As in, start with a single data warehouse pilot project, learn your best practices from that experience, and expand accordingly from there.
Planning Your Remote Patient Monitoring Strategy? By Alan Little
As recently as five years ago, due to a variety of technological and financial factors, providers, insurers and patients were relatively slow to adopt remote patient monitoring (RPM) – technology that enables patients to be monitored outside of traditional clinical settings.
The Value to Hospitals of IT Portfolio Management By Mark Jahn
As seen in Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review. Just as investors use portfolio management to ensure that their resources are appropriately balanced among various types of investments, so too should hospital IT leaders use IT portfolio management to direct their allocation of project resources. Given the inevitable push and pull between IT demands and resources, IT portfolio management allows health care organizations to invest in projects offering the greatest potential return. In that sense, it’s similar to how...
Leveraging Technology to Enhance Population Health Efforts By Chet Stagnaro
How can you cost-effectively and efficiently harness technology to improve your population health efforts? When leveraging technology to enhance population health efforts, use technology solutions that keep patients at the center of your analysis and actions. Here are five technology best practices and five people-centric best practices to help guide your technology-driven population health efforts.
Data Governance: Can Healthcare Organizations Afford Not to Govern Their Data?
In order to manage an organization’s data assets efficiently, organizations need to consider the resources already being allocated to activities that may readily be addressed by data governance.
Defining a Holistic Approach to Business Intelligence By Kam Reams
Healthcare organizations recognize the need for enhanced understanding of their businesses in order to be successful in the fast-changing landscape of healthcare. In order to accomplish this, these organizations must embrace a holistic approach to business intelligence that goes beyond data infrastructure and tools used for advanced analytics.