For healthcare organizations experiencing difficulty launching and sustaining data-driven performance improvement projects, one potential solution to consider is more flexible organization design and increasing self-service data access.

Public health is heavily dependent on collecting and sharing accurate patient data. Standards for data collection and interoperability can move the needle toward better health data, but it is up to healthcare organizations to take ownership of their data quality by following best practices and adopting technologies that can detect and eliminate bad patient data before it is disseminated.

Healthcare organizations that delay consolidating tech stacks and optimizing healthcare operations will continue to hemorrhage money, incur costly penalties and compliance violations, and lose staff due to operational and workforce inefficiencies.

Digital maturity will require shared data standards, strategies for streamlining data management and a collaborative approach that involves all players in the biopharma supply chain.

MedCity News connected with Integra Connect’s COO, Cory Wiegert at ViVE 2023 to discuss how their new platform will go beyond the “one size fits all” approach to data curation.

In healthcare, we need honest methodologies that accurately capture both the cost and complexity of specialty care and deliver a reliable ROI calculation. Only this sort of replicable, high-integrity ROI calculation can truly associate accessing high quality specialists with lower cost and better outcomes amidst today’s healthcare access and affordability crisis.

Valuable digital data is a relatively new phenomenon in the history of healthcare. Providers need to think of it in a new way — not as a byproduct, but as another valuable outcome they are generating as they do their jobs and care for patients.

Wearable patient devices can provide healthcare organizations with more varied data, expand options for clinical trials, and make patients more active participants in their own care.

Emerging technologies hold the potential to protect doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders while driving up efficiencies for manual tasks and processes and enhancing productivity.

The increasing costs of labor and supplies are the top issues keeping healthcare CFOs up at night, according to a new report. Even though providers’ margins are currently quite tight, the report recommended that healthcare organizations adopt data analytics software to remedy these concerns and help with important decisions like how to effectively manage their existing workforce and where to shift care delivery models.

Intus Care, a predictive analytics platform designed to improve care outcomes among geriatric patients, recently closed a $14.1 million Series A funding round. The startup’s mission is to improve the way PACE programs use their data so they can maintain and enhance the quality of care they provide to vulnerable seniors.

Healthcare organizations must ensure they have a data-literate workforce that is confident in using the data and is empowered in using it to make decisions. Here are some best practices that hospitals can implement to better empower their employees to make data-driven decisions.

Collecting SDOH, adding this data to patient profiles, enabling health data analytics, and taking data-based actions has proven to help significantly.

Truveta, a company owned by 17 U.S. health systems, will build its data analytics solution on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft will also help the company scale the solution globally and engage new customers.

Clinical decision support systems don’t need to be distracting. We can design them to stop pointing out the patients in the middle of catastrophe, and start helping us prevent them from ever arriving there.

If approved by Congress, ONC will receive $87 million for fiscal year 2022. With more funding, prominence, and demands, where should ONC place its focus?

While most policy makers made “follow the data” a mantra, it turns out that most didn’t – not because they didn’t want to, but because they didn’t have access to the complete set of data they needed to accurately evaluate.

The collaboration will build on AdventHealth’s existing genomics and personalized health program, leveraging data to predict disease progression and response to treatments. Sema4’s Centrellis data platform will be a core part of the new program.

The health system and technology giant are teaming up to create a data analytics platform and tools that support workflow management. Google Cloud will gain access to the massive trove of patient information gathered at HCA’s 184 hospitals in accordance with predetermined privacy rules.

Though telehealth will continue to account for a large portion of healthcare IT budgets in 2021, there are other technology-based services driving provider interest. These range from cloud deployment to vaccine scheduling solutions as providers navigate the new landscape created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The health technology company’s valuation skyrocketed to $1.3 billion following its latest funding round. It plans to use the new funds to launch Innovaccer Health Cloud, which will aggregate and normalize data from different systems and support the development of interoperable apps.

Data analytics startup Verana Health struck a partnership with Janssen Research & Development. They’ll focus on exploring better treatments for diabetic retinopathy and macular edema.

Data can allow us to improve our public health response to the pandemic, but only if we enable data scientists with the right tools to harness those datasets.

Evidation Health, a startup that provides technology for virtual clinical trials, raised $45 million in series D funding. The company plans to use the funds to offer virtual health programs to research participants.

Large enterprises were once viewed as the most innovative companies in the world, but in recent decades, startups have developed a reputation for their ability to out-maneuver established companies.

The rest of 2020 and heading into 2021 will be defined by duality of data security and data integration, and providers’ ability to execute on these priorities. That in turn will, in many ways, determine their effectiveness.

A commitment to data and monetization takes time as resources and talent have to be accumulated, and data often has to be prepped for outside consumption. But all this can potentially reduce losses and create profit centers.

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Realizing the full potential of precision medicine starts with finding better ways to collect, share and make decisions based on data.