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Improving health care through Big Data: a meeting of the minds at SAS

By on May 11, 2012 in Bio/life sciences, Chronic care, Connected health, Electronic health records, Health at home, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health insurance, Health Plans, Health politics, Health Quality, Health reform, Hospitals, Medicaid, medical home, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Personalized medicine, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Physicians, Primary care, Privacy and security, Public health, Retail health, Safety net and health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust

Some 500 data analytics gurus representing the health care ecosystem including hospitals, physician practices, life science companies, academia and consulting came together on the lush campus of SAS in Cary, North Carolina, this week to discuss how Big Data could solve health care’s Triple Aim, as coined by keynote speaker Dr. Donald Berwick: improve the [...]

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Job #1 in data analytics for health care: get the data, and make sure you can trust it

By on March 5, 2012 in Affordable Care Act, Bio/life sciences, Connected health, Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Economics, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Pharmaceutical, Privacy and security, Public health, Remote health monitoring, Retail health

The ability to get the data is the #1 obstacle that will slow the adoption of data analytics in health care, according to IBM’s report, The value of analytics in healthcare: from insights to outcomes. Healthcare “high performers,” as IBM calls them, use data analytics for guiding future strategy, product research and development, and sales [...]

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Trust in doctors breeds trust in health IT – context-setting for patient engagement, HIMSS 2012

By on February 19, 2012 in Connected health, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health insurance exchanges, Health reform, Health social networks, Internet and Health, Medical technology, Personalized medicine, Privacy and security, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust

While the vast majority of people find value in electronic health records (EHRs) — both those whose doctors currently use them and those patients whose personal health information still resides in paper-based systems — most remain concerned about their patient rights, privacy and security of that data.  Making IT Meaningful: How Consumers Value and Trust [...]

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Connected Health: countries’ vary in their health IT connectedness, but US patients are ready, willing and welcoming EHRs

By on February 16, 2012 in Connected health, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health reform, Health social networks, HITECH Act, Medical technology, mHealth, Mobile health, Physicians, Privacy and security, Remote health monitoring, Telehealth, Telemedicine

How electronically connnected and communicative are nations’ health information infrastructures? Accenture has answered that question in its report, Making the Case for Connected Health. Accenture built a “connected health maturity index,” analyzing a nation’s level of health information exchange among users along with their level of health IT adoption among specialists and primary care doctors. [...]

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The state of health IT in America: thinking about the Bipartisan Policy Center report on health IT

By on February 2, 2012 in Administrative simplification, Affordable Care Act, Connected health, Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Economics, Health politics, Health regulation, HITECH Act, Hospital finance, Hospitals, Internet and Health, Medical technology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Privacy and security, Telehealth, Telemedicine

There are few issue areas within the Beltway of Washington, DC, that have enjoyed more support across the political aisle than health care information technology. In 2004, George Bush asserted that every American would/should have an electronic medical record by 2014. Since then, Democrats and Republicans alike have supported the broad concept of wiring the [...]

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