Continued Good News for the Health IT Workforce
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The job and career opportunities in health information technology (HIT) continue to grow, even though…
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Avoiding Common Healthcare Analytics Pitfalls
When you invested in an analytics, I’m guessing you signed up for data-driven solutions, not additional healthcare analytics pitfalls and inefficiencies. Yet that’s exactly what your health system is dealing with — problems and inefficiencies that keep popping up when all you really want to focus on is improving quality and cost.
Health IT Adoption Infographics
In these Health IT Adoption infographics, see how the body can be a source of big data, how healthcare IT is transforming, how physicians are adopting health IT, and what the costs are of data center outages in healthcare.
7 Steps for Building a Data Analytics Foundation
Nearly every large health network has made an attempt to consolidate data from multiple sources into some type of data warehouse. However, having the data in one place does not make it useful or trusted as a source for business intelligence.
Comprehensive Data Standards and Interoperability
Two local informatics-related happenings recently provided teachable moments demonstrating why a comprehensive approach to standards and interoperability is so critical for realizing the value of health IT. Fortunately, the ONC has prioritized interoperability among its activities moving forward.
Efficacy Is Not Leading to Effectiveness
The Dichotomy of Health Information Technology William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I often get involved in debates about the value…
Data Analytics, Data Science, and Big Data Must Demonstrate Value
Beyond Prediction William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor One of my ongoing concerns for data analytics/data science/Big Data in biomedicine and…
Healthy Living is Not Alternative Medicine, and Vice Versa
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Part of my original interest in a medical career emanated…
ETL Challenges within Healthcare Business Intelligence
Developing Your ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) Solution By Brad Benson, CEO Health eFormatics Twitter: @EMRConversion Healthcare delivery reforms are putting pressure on healthcare organizations to reduce costs…