By Chris Kelly, Associate CMIO for Data and Analytics, MultiCare Health System No one in healthcare will forget March 2020, staring down the worst pandemic in living memory. Society shut down. People started dying at unheard-of rates in Italy, and ...

By Kerri Webster, VP/Chief Analytics Officer, Children's Hospital Colorado It is simply not possible in today’s world to talk about technology and healthcare without playing the acronym Scrabble or buzzword Bingo - AI, ML, RPA, NLP, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, ...

By Gary Zack, Director IT, Geisinger The objective for any business is to run efficient operations to reduce costs. The healthcare industry can benefit by using the same mindset to add value to existing traditional data sharing processes to enhance ...

By Casey Hossa, CIO, Cardinal Innovations Healthcare How do we achieve an organization’s data ambitions by bringing its data and analytics capabilities into alignment? Data and Analytics are often the top priority for nearly all CIOs that I speak with ...

By Alexander G. Izaguirre, Chief Data Officer & VP, NYC Health + Hospitals On May of 2019, I was appointed New York City Health and Hospitals’ (NYC H+H) chief data officer. My first order of business was to lead the ...

By Karl Hightower, Chief Data Officer & SVP – Data Products and Services, Novant Health How do you use data to find long-term chronic health problems? Healthcare practitioners function in an event-based system with some discreet data points, but most ...

Last year, the horrors of COVID-19 unfolded a bleak picture, putting real-time care accessibility in the foreground as a priority. From the end users’ perspective, the access to data in real time and near real time was indicative of the ...

By Patrick McGill, MD., EVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Community Health Network Many organizations aspire to be “data-driven’ or “analytics-focused,” but what do those terms really mean? Community Health Network was no different, embarking on a data and analytics improvement ...

By Onur Torusoglu, VP, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer, St. Luke’s Health The COVID-19 pandemic forced so many aspects of life to change and for health care to adapt in completely new ways. At St. Luke’s Health System, the need ...

By Jason Buchanan M.D., M.S., Clinical Informatics Officer, Baylor College of Medicine Data is the new currency of the times and it will be the reason why organizations either sink or swim. The ubiquitous use of electronic health records combined ...

By Jim Beinlich, Chief Data Information Officer, Penn Medicine Introduction Cloud technology and analytics have been around for quite some time. Still, they are taking on lead technology roles in healthcare, especially after the past year where working “anywhere and ...

By Heidi Baskfield, VP Population Health & Advocacy, Ellen Sublett, Quality Improvement Specialist, Sana Yousuf, Software Engineer, Children’s Hospital Colorado Developing an effective work that accomplishes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within an organization, requires deliberate and consistent intention to ...

By Christopher Hutchins, VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Northwell Health Today we are experiencing unprecedented growth in the generation of data of every kind. This is certainly true in healthcare, and with the introduction of artificial intelligence, machine learning, ...

By Brendan Watkins, Chief Analytics Officer, Stanford Children’s Health Tips:1) Leverage the excitement of data exploration and visualization technology rollout.2) Don’t let the technology overshadow the structure.3) Choose the people in the analyst layer well; they provide important insights across ...

By Andy Draper PhD, CIO & Dr. Mark Radlauer, CMIO at HCA Healthcare Continental Division On June 30, 2020, IBM Watson Health announced the annual 15 Top Health System awards based on published quality outcomes from the Centers for Medicare ...

By Marcos Salganicoff, Ph.D., Director, Data & Analytics, KPMG & Bharat Rao, Ph.D. Principal, Data & Analytics for HealthCare & Life Sciences, KPMG Bharat Rao, Ph.D. Principal, Data & Analytics AI’s potential role in healthcare is immense, and ranges from ...

By Priya Radhakrishnan, Faculty Physician, Medical Director, Chief Academic Officer, HonorHealth When I was a kid, I was convinced that we would be beaming up as Scotty had shown us, instead of flying or driving. I was also certain that ...

By Claus Torp Jensen, CTO and Head of Architecture, CVS Health The notion of artificial intelligence has captivated our minds for decades; sometimes cast as the benefactor of an advanced society, sometimes cast as the villain of a science fiction ...

By Sunil Kakade, Director Information Architecture & Dr. Umar Iqbal, CMIO, Dignity Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare is likely to evolve at a more rapid pace than any other type of technological advancement. AI thrives on data. Currently, the ...

By Dr. Omid Shabestari, Director of Health Analytics & Shea Jessee, Team Lead, Carilion Clinic What is the average number of medication orders per inpatient visit?  Where are the highest ratios occurring?  Is this unique to certain medications? Which providers ...

By Mark Weisman, CMIO, Peninsula Regional Medical Center If you are fortunate enough to have a brilliant biomedical informaticist hanging around your hospital, then understanding and implementing predictive models into your care delivery systems is second nature to you. The ...

By Bridget McKenzie, Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Medical Management, Conifer Health Solutions People are living longer than ever, and as the baby boomers age, providing care to an exponentially larger, complex population will place a strain on the ...

By Tina Wallman, Sr. Director of Strategic Initiatives, Optum There has recently been a lot of talk around explainable AI (XAI). How can we open up the ‘black box’ around AI to better understand what decisions it is making, what ...

By Karly Rowe, Vice President New Product Development and Identity Management, Experian We’ve all heard in the news, and are certainly disheartened, about the opioid crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on average, 115 Americans ...

By Chad Konchak, AVP, Health IT, NorthShore University HealthSystem Healthcare to date has seen a tremendous advance in the use of predictive modeling. However, while we have advanced with these abilities, we have also encountered a new problem: with each ...

By Mitchell Morris, M.D., Executive Vice President, Advisory Services, Optum None of us is lacking in data. It’s coming at us from every angle, all day long. In fact, 30 percent of the world’s stored data is generated by the ...

By Lee David Milligan, VP & Chief Medical Information Officer, Asante A few years after going live on our enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR), we decided to institute Data Governance (DG). We thought we understood the problem to be solved ...

By Erin Benson, Director of Market Planning, LexisNexis Health Care Healthcare is on the brink of a significant transformation driven by the ongoing shift to value-based care and the focus on improving population health. Research has shown that socioeconomic data ...