5 reasons to get sold on analytics. AHIMA Home - American Health Information Management Association. Health Map: Real-Time Sickness and Disease Reports at GermTrax. SaaS Business Intelligence Solutions - KPI Examples, Dashboard & Reporting. 6 keys to the future of analytics and big data in healthcare. O'Brien: Big data and the coming revolution in health care. Posted: 05/02/2012 10:35:42 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago Congratulations! You found a link we goofed up on, and as a result you're here, on the article-not-found page. That said, if you happened to be looking for our daily celebrity photo gallery, you're in luck: Also, if you happened to be looking for our photo gallery of our best reader-submitted images, you're in luck: So, yeah, sorry, we could not find the Mercury News article you're looking for.
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The idea is to make data from the vaults of HHS (and other sources) available in electronic, machine-readable, downloadable, easily accessible form, and promote its availability to entrepreneurs and innovators (via meetups, challenges, and codeathons) who can turn it into all kinds of applications and services that can help improve health and create jobs at the same time.
Data in use from public health to personal fitness. Back in 2010, the first health data initiative forum by the Dept. of Health and Human Services introduced the public to the idea of an agency releasing internal data in forms easy for both casual viewers and programmers to use. The third such forum, which took place last week in Washington, DC, was so enormous (1,400 participants) that it had to be held in a major convention center. Todd Park, who as CTO made HHS a leader in the open data movement, has moved up to take a corresponding role for the entire federal government. Open data is a world movement, and the developer challenges that the HDI forum likes to highlight are standard strategies for linking governments with app programmers. Todd Park on main stage. The “datapalooza” was already covered on Radar by Alex Howard, so here I’ll list some of the observations I made during the parts I attended. Health and Human Services chooses torrents over leaks HHS staff at break-out session.
A few examples of data sets include: Health Data Initiative Forum. Health Data Initiative Forum. 4 tips for leveraging big data. Cost savings are always key drivers of new initiatives. And in today's healthcare industry, as priorities continue to shift and pressure is added to increase revenues and improve outcomes, one element could be a key player in making it all happen: big data.
"We think it's going to separate winners from losers in many markets over the next five years," said Russ Richmond, MD, CEO of healthcare solutions and consulting company Objective Health. "The institutions that are capable of first understanding where the market is going … are going to have tremendous advantages over the ones who can't or won't do this. We believe that over time, it's going to become a core competency for hospitals, and it won't be something seen as extra or nice to have – it's going to become a core part of how they operate going forward. " Richmond outlines four tips for leveraging big data at hospitals. 1. [See also: Data breaches top of mind for IT decision makers.] 2. What Price Wellness? Dataviz Shows Economics of Wellness and Disease - GE Healthcare News. There is a wealth of data that shows the value to companies of investing in employee health. It is not always easy to communicate it coherently and encourage employees to participate in wellness programs.
GE Healthcare’s X-Ray business and Health Economics team have made an attempt to get it across in pictures. The GE Healthcare Health Economics team set out to draw attention to the clinical and economic value of technology in employee wellness in a visually compelling way. Collating data from disparate sources, the “Clinical and Economic Value of Wellness” data-visualization covers the major global chronic disease burdens, and illustrates the estimated effect of digital health technology on company revenue and savings to public and private healthcare providers. “We are currently working to understand the role of healthcare technologies in this equation,” Raquel Cabo, in GE Healthcare’s Health Economics & Outcomes Research team, says.
GE Healthcare walks the talk. Health - Robert E. Litan - Big Data Can Save Health Care—But at What Cost to Privacy? Medical research would benefit greatly from massive, publicly shared sets of patient information. Reuters Last month, 30 experts from various backgrounds convened by the Kauffman Foundation issued a report, "Valuing Health Care," that offered some familiar and some not-so-familiar recommendations for improving health-care outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
Several of the lesser-known ones focused on how to best collect, aggregate, and share more and better patient health data. The data at issue includes: patients' medical records, which are now typically held by multiple doctors and hospitals; information that only patients know (e.g., behaviors and life and job histories); genetic information that is only just becoming cheaply available; and health data generated by researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers. Although health data are highly sensitive and thus require protection, they are also a public good. The best way to collect such information is simply to ask people for it. White House launches ‘big data’ initiative. Healthcare stands to reap big rewards from the government's $200 million "big data" project, launched March 29 by the Obama Administration. [See also: Farzad Mostashari: Man on a digital mission] Aiming to make the most of the fast-growing volume of digital data, the Obama Administration announced a “Big Data Research and Development Initiative,” pledging to “extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data,” to help address the nation’s most pressing challenges.
“In the same way that past federal investments in information-technology R&D led to dramatic advances in supercomputing and the creation of the Internet, the initiative we are launching today promises to transform our ability to use big data for scientific discovery, environmental and biomedical research, education and national security,” said John P. Holdren, assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The initiative aims to: Protecting patient data. As our healthcare systems become increasing connected and interdependent, protecting the privacy and integrity of patient data is critical. As health information exchanges (HIE), regional HIEs (RHIE) and health information service providers (HISP) become more prevalent, the importance of following best practices implementing security for the exchanging of data with external partners should be a key objective. Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, is the technology used to ensure that healthcare data is protected while being transported between partners over the Internet. Following are the three functions provided by PKI encryption/decryption services for the secure exchange of health care data: Encryption/decryption of the document being exchanged – This is the encryption of actual data being exchanged. This could include a Word document, txt note, HL7 message or JPG.Encryption/decryption of the transport – The transport is essentially the pipe that the data is sent over.
Can Too Much Information Harm Patients? [Excerpt] Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (Basic Books, 2012), by Eric Topol, a professor of innovative medicine and the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. Nearly 7 Billion people on the planet Over 3 million doctors Tens of thousands of hospitals 6000 prescription medicines, 4000 procedures and operations Countless supplements, herbs, alternative treatments Who gets what, when, where, why and how?
When a 58 year old, active, lean, intelligent financier from Florida came to see me for a second opinion, I should not have been surprised. But her husband didn't have any symptoms of heart disease, didn't take any medications, and played at least two rounds of golf a week. Now, in my office four months later, this patient is not doing well at all. Sign up for Scientific American’s free newsletters. Unfortunately, this individual's story is not so uncommon.
Consumer Interest In Health Information Wanes - Healthcare - The Patient. Increased broadband access hasn't translated into many more people seeking medical information online. (click image for larger view) Slideshow: 6 Top-Notch E-Prescribing Options Perhaps reflecting a lack of clarity or disappointment with previous attempts to find what they're looking for, consumers seem to be losing their enthusiasm for seeking out health information, a new report suggests.
According to research by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), half of all U.S. adults in 2010 looked for information about personal health issues from sources other than their doctor within the previous 12 months. Not surprisingly, there was a sharp dropoff in the number of people reading print media for health information. The degree of the decline in use of print media was "striking," according to the report, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Only the Internet showed an increase between the 2007 and 2010 surveys, but not by much. More Insights. Update of WHO/Europe statistical databases. Health Data Initiative - IoM. Activity The Health Data Initiative (HDI), originally launched by the IOM and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the Community Health Data Initiative, is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark community action to improve health.
In March 2010, the IOM and HHS hosted a small gathering of leaders from the White House, federal agencies, academia, social sectors, public health communities, information technology firms, major businesses, and health care delivery systems to catalyze the formation of a new Community Health Data Initiative, and to plan for a June 2010 launch. On June 2, 2010, the IOM and HHS held The Community Health Data Forum: Harnessing the Power of Information to Improve Health. In June 2011, the Health Data Initiative Forum expanded to include more than 50 applications that used data from HHS and other data suppliers. Bridge to Data. Palantir Health. Healthcare providers seek to significantly improve the standard of care they deliver.
They aim to consistently incentivize best practices across all networks of care, identify and implement evidence-based medicine, reduce readmission rates, and deliver real-time reporting of infectious diseases. Providers are also investing in the promise of personalized medicine by updating their technology with unified data integration of genomic and clinical data, entity extraction, and natural language processing of clinical notes.
Significant obstacles block providers from achieving their vision. The scale of the data, variable formats, and disconnected locations of critical healthcare information make unified analysis a significant challenge. Insufficient and inflexible data integration prevents the resolution and fusion of patient identification and records. Device, clinical, pharmaceutical, claims, accounting, and scheduling data all need to be integrated as well. Secure all connected data. Health Bills, State By State. Bill Track 50 monitors all bills, including healthcare-related legislation--on ICD-10, health informative exchanges, and the like--for each state.
One use: Search for and compare similar proposals. Health Data Security: Tips And Tools (click image for larger view and for slideshow) A start-up company has launched a website to search, track, and analyze all pending and recent state legislation, and is marketing its service to trade associations and advocacy groups, including some in healthcare.
The company, Denver-based LegiNation, takes PDF files of legislation from each state's online bill-tracking system and turns them into text, then converts the text into an XML format for display and retrieval through a service called Bill Track 50. The company started in June and Bill Track 50 went live in December, 2011 according to Suhaka. [Is it time to re-engineer your Clinical Decision Support system? Suhaka reported that she wrote her business plan with lobbyists in mind as the target market. Who Will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT? Last week was the massive Salesforce.com user conference Dreamforce (massive in that there were more attendees at Dreamforce then this year’s HIMSS!). We’ve been reviewing more than a few articles and writings written by those who attended the event.
In the few short years of its existence (~13yrs) Salesforce.com has become one of the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendors in the market and basically pushed the previous leader Siebel to the brink and into the arms of Oracle. Salesforce is arguably the leader in the Software as a Service (SaaS) market and thus someone to pay close attention to on all things “Cloud Computing.” So what makes Salesforce.com so compelling and what are some parallels to the healthcare sector? Similar Market Demographics: From the beginning Salesforce has always been structured as a SaaS and targeted the hard to reach and highly distributed sales forces of companies of all sizes. This got us to thinking… Validity of electronic health record-derived quality measurement for performance monitoring -- Parsons et al. + Author Affiliations Correspondence to Dr Amanda Parsons, Health Care Access & Improvement, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 42-09 28th Street, 12th Floor, Queens, NY 11101, USA; aparsons@health.nyc.gov Received 18 August 2011 Accepted 21 December 2011 Published Online First 16 January 2012 Abstract Background Since 2007, New York City's primary care information project has assisted over 3000 providers to adopt and use a prevention-oriented electronic health record (EHR).
Participating practices were taught to re-adjust their workflows to use the EHR built-in population health monitoring tools, including automated quality measures, patient registries and a clinical decision support system. Practices received a comprehensive suite of technical assistance, which included quality improvement, EHR customization and configuration, privacy and security training, and revenue cycle optimization. Methods Practice selection Electronic chart reviews Analytical methods Results.
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