Analytics and Pop Health



Is Value-Based Reimbursement Mostly Dead or Slightly Alive?

By David Burda – One of my favorite scenes in The Princess Bride is when Miracle Max tells Inigo and Fezzik that Westley is “mostly dead,” which means he’s “slightly alive.” There’s hope for a full recovery. We can say the same thing about value-based reimbursement, if we have as much faith in a few recent VBR status reports as Inigo and Fezzik have in Miracle Max.


Annual Reflections at the End of 2021

By William Hersh MD – As is the tradition with this blog, I end each year with a reflective look at the year past and what the future may hold. The year 2021 is not ending quite like I anticipated. At the beginning of the year, there were stirrings of optimism.



AI in Healthcare News and Updates January 2022

We are continuing our monthly "Sorting out AI, ML, DL, and NLP" report with a new look for 2022. Each month we will bring you the news highlights focused on AI in healthcare. According to ReportLinker, the artificial intelligence in healthcare market is projected to grow from USD 6.9 billion in 2021 to USD 67.4 [...]

From Reading to Writing: Next Steps for Patient Data Exchange and Interoperability

By William Hersh MD – The rationale and implementation for reading data from the electronic health record and other clinical sources is relatively simple and straightforward. Especially now enshrined into law in the US by the 21st Century Cures Rule, and standardized by the FHIR application programming interface, accessing data for reading by clinicians, patients, and others is here to stay.