IT Analytics Interviews

Leveraging AI for COVID-19 Outreach, Population Health Management

by Jessica Kent

In the time since the COVID-19 outbreak has escalated to a full-blown global pandemic, buzzwords like artificial intelligence, population health management, and the social determinants of health have become vital defenses in the fight...

How Clinical Decision Support Adherence Leads to Better Patient Data

by Jessica Kent

As the volume of healthcare data increases and the shift to value-based care accelerates, clinical decision support tools are becoming more and more critical to ensure quality care delivery. From computerized alerts and clinical guidelines,...Despite the many benefits of CDS systems, these tools can bring unprecedented challenges as well. Many in the healthcare industry are all too familiar with unintuitive platforms and unnecessary alerts causing frustration and physician...

Cross-Sector AI Partnerships Curb Hospital Readmissions

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Hospital readmissions are associated with billions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs. Over 3.3 million readmissions were associated with $41.3 billion in healthcare spending in 2011 alone.   As a result, readmission rates...

Overcoming Bias in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Artificial intelligence is often seen as the silver bullet to the healthcare industry’s numerous problems. Machine learning technologies have been shown to more quickly and accurately read radiology scans, identify high-risk patients,...

Making Pediatric Risk Scoring a Reality for Children’s Hospitals

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Payers and providers need to understand the risk of their unique patient population to allocate financial and clinical resources. But an accurate risk score is contingent on holistic patient data. Many payers and providers have mastered...

Natural Language Processing Advances Clinical Decision Making

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Providers are inundated with large amounts of data that is daunting to comb through to find actionable outcomes.  Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is frequently seen as the solution to this problem, as it boasts faster and more...

Eliminating Racial Bias in Algorithm Development

by Emily Sokol, MPH

The use of machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networking artificial intelligence technologies are exploding across the healthcare industry. From identifying early stage cancer on radiology images to calculating...

How Teamwork Fuels Award Winning Health Information Management

by Jessica Kent

At the core of any meaningful healthcare intervention is medical data. A patient’s health history, prescription information, and demographic data are the building blocks of quality care delivery, leading to better patient outcomes and...

New Project Puts an Actuarial Eye on Big Data, Healthcare Costs

by Jessica Kent

Healthcare costs in the US are on the rise, with the industry spending billions each year to combat chronic disease, manage administrative tasks, and advance medical treatments. Although organizations have increasingly sought to improve...Last year, the organizations gathered a group of key stakeholders, including hospital administrators, employee benefits experts, and healthcare economists, for the inaugural event of Initiative 18/11. “In March 2018, we brought...

Nurses Play a Critical Role in EHR Optimization, Data Governance

by Jennifer Bresnick

Most healthcare organizations have now celebrated at least a handful of anniversaries with their electronic health records, and are now coming to the realization that implementation was only the start of a long and often difficult...“Implementation is just the beginning,” she told HealthITAnalytics.com.  “It’s a journey that evolves over time as you become more sophisticated users of the system.  How you govern that journey is key for...

Value-Based Care Requires Clear Analytics Goals, Scalable Health IT

by NextGen Healthcare

As the principles of value-based care become increasingly important for success in the healthcare delivery environment, provider organizations are facing some tough choices around how much financial risk they are prepared to take. A...

Da Vinci Project Brings HL7 FHIR to Payers for Big Data Analytics

by Jennifer Bresnick

In just a few short years, HL7 FHIR has exploded in popularity to enable unprecedented connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem.    The internet-based data standard has started to hit its stride at a pivotal moment for...“Argonaut spurred the DaVinci Project specifically to enable access to granular clinical data for payers,” said HL7 International CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, to HealthITAnalytics.com at HIMSS18.  “It’s very...Small discrepancies between clinical documentation and claims generated from that encounter can create major problems for population health management, risk scoring, and outcomes-based reimbursement, continued Jaffe, citing an example he...

How the Healthcare “Value Chain” Leads to Big Data Analytics Success

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations may come in many different sizes, shapes, and specialties, but all providers working in the industry today have one major trait in common: their big data is getting bigger by the minute – and leveraging these...“All of us are trying to figure out ways to enhance value from our data, make it higher quality, and make it more reliable,” stated Dr. Joe Kimura, Chief Medical Officer at Atrius Health, at the 2017 Boston Value-Based Care...

How Mayo Clinic Uses CDS Algorithms to Standardize Nurse Triage

by Jennifer Bresnick

The healthcare system has always relied on primary care providers to be the initial point of contact for patients with routine care needs and low-level complaints – a role that has become increasingly important as organizations try to...“Not only did that help the clinics maintain access for the people who really needed to be seen, but we also believe it kept people who were contagious out of a setting where they could easily transfer the virus to...

Why Health Information Exchange Needs HIM, IT Collaboration

by Jennifer Bresnick

“Competing initiatives” is an oft repeated phrase in the healthcare industry, and for good reason.  Between meaningful use, ICD-10, EHR interoperability, emerging reimbursement reforms, big data analytics, and a slew of...