By John Smithwick – Lately, there’s been a lot of noise around the use of big data in health care. As the name implies, big data looks for patterns and trends in extremely large sets of information. And it’s big business.
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By Sarianne Gruber – Predicting Readmission Risk with Institution Specific Prediction Models is a study that illustrates why healthcare analytics has a vital role in meeting challenges of new policies, managing population health, and predicting a patient’s risk to readmit.
By Kelley Sullivan – We’ve previously discussed the Internet of Things (IoT). Now it seems the industry is starting to focus on how the Internet of Things will manifest itself and how healthcare can use it to the best of its ability.
By Sarianne Gruber – The PerfectServe survey, A Study of the Role of Communications in Population Health Management, quantifies and qualifies the challenges that medical and healthcare professionals face trying to communicate with each other given the multitude of hi-tech options.
At this year’s HIMSS15 conference in Chicago I had the opportunity to sit down with Tom Butts, CEO of ZirMed. In the video interview, Tom…
By Matthew Swain & Erica Galvez – Advancing secure and interoperable exchange is a core component of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 and the focus of the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
By Melissa Salm – A new survey will explore not only the salaries of various health informatics occupations but also the specifics that impact those numbers. The survey is being conducted by Bisk Education for USF Health Morsani College of Medicine’s Online Programs.
The game-changing digital transformation of medicine is emerging into a new phase, according to Robert M. Wah, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and there is reason for great optimism in the future of this evolution as the AMA helps physicians take on a greater role in leading changes that will move technological innovations forward.
Here are some new resources you might find helpful as you try and move toward better health, smarter spending and healthier people! Help others by…