By Edward L. Hunter – The obesity epidemic has far-reaching consequences: it is a primary driver of continually climbing health care costs, it foreshadows an unhealthier and costlier workforce that will burden global economic competitiveness, and it is reversing more than a century of progress in which each generation lived longer and healthier lives than the one before it.
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By John Halamka MD – I recently wrote about the process of setting FY16 Clinical Information System Priorities for the next year. That project is proceeding well and in parallel I’ve created my own contribution. I do not want to influence the stakeholder consensus at all, but members of the IS Governance committee asked for my opinion.
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
By William Hersh – The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality is an unheralded government agency that performs a great deal of healthcare-related research out of proportion to its small size. Just browsing through the AHRQ web site makes it clear that agency does a great breadth of work for its annual $400 million budget.
By Sarianne Gruber – HealthEC gets population health, physician and patient engagement, and the power of data. I visited with Mr. Arthur Kapoor, Chairman and Founder, and Dr. Sanjay Seth, Executive VP, of HealthEC at their headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey to learn more about their healthcare philosophy and their suite of population heath management solutions.
Accenture Technology Vision releases a report of their finding on emerging technology trends that will impact large enterprises in the next three-to-five years. This year the Healthcare IT Vision reveals five key trends.
By William Hersh – NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins accepted a report from his Advisory Committee that set forth a strategic vision that affirmed the NLM as a strategic leader in data science, biomedical informatics, and as a library resource.
By Matt Patterson MD – While health systems are facing the need to provide better outcomes at a lower cost, there is only so much that can be achieved through consolidation, incentives, and standardization. Most recognize that in order to continue moving the needle on cost, hospitals and health systems will require fundamental redesign in the way care is provided.