By John Halamka MD – Every technology has an adoption journey. The classic Gartner hype curve travels from a Technology Trigger to the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. It often takes years before organizations reach the Slope of Enlightenment and finally achieve a Plateau of Productivity.
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By Sarianne Gruber – HITEC studied the association between the usage of an HIE system post-discharge and 30-day same cause hospital readmissions among patients in Rochester, NY.
By William Hersh MD – Being concerned with representation of information and knowledge, researchers in informatics sometimes express concern with the concept of “semantic drift,” where the meaning of words and concepts changes over time.
Health Catalyst is hosting the summit on September 8-10 in Salt Lake City, UT at The Grand America Hotel. Early registration special ends May 31st.
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.
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…