By Gregory Ator MD – It is well known that healthcare is moving from volume to value – value defined as optimal outcomes for the least cost. And with some urgency, many organizations are trying to figure out how to successfully navigate this transition.
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By Julie Rovner – Medicine, meet Big Data. For generations, physicians have been trained in basic science and human anatomy to diagnose and treat the individual patient. But now, massive stores of data about what works for which patients are literally changing the way medicine is practiced.
By Sarianne Gruber – Part 2 of an interview with Elizabeth Stuart, PhD a professor of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
By William Hersh MD – Like many academic health science centers, my institution is undergoing a planning process to determine our strategy for data science. I have expressed my concern about the (lack of?) differences between data science and biomedical and health informatics, but the former term seems to be carrying the day.
By Gajen Sunthara – For the past year, I have been honored to serve my country as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) with the ONC. As my PIF journey comes to an end, I wanted to provide a brief recap of my work and its potential for the future.
By Bill Hersh – The week of October 1st was a busy week in the health IT/informatics world, as the US government released a flurry of rules and documents around health IT. As I tell my students, it is great to be living in this ever-changing part of the history of our field.
By Kathryn Marchesini, Helen Caton-Peters, & Lucia Savage – Through the proliferation of software applications and mobile technology, the amount of identifiable health information being collected, analyzed, and used is growing exponentially. As the volume, velocity, and variety of such information activities continue to grow,
By William Hersh – I have noted in the past that I receive a steady stream of email from physicians asking about their eligibility for board certification in the clinical informatics subspecialty. I have created several posts that allow me to point them to a general answer.
By Sarianne Gruber – Apervita has conceived a common way for sharing information, and coined it “a democratization of health knowledge”. They have unlocked analytics as a self-service and removed the need to hard code algorithms to a given data model.