Artificial Intelligence

Data-Driven Medication Utilization Management Tools to Reduce Drug Cost

By Sophia Humphreys, Director, System Pharmacy Clinical Services, Providence St. Joseph Health Covid-19 has financially devastated the healthcare industry, causing an estimated $323 billion in losses for 2020, according to the American Hospital Association. Rising drug costs are a key ...
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The Next Generation of Decision Support Tools and Systems in Healthcare

By Ali Birjandi, VP of Performance Improvement, CHRISTUS Health In Performance Improvement, we are always on the hunt to find faster, better, and cheaper ways to produce goods and services. To this end, assessing and reengineering operations to optimize inputs ...
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Why Healthcare Executives (You!) Should Be Paying Attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

By Sean D Mooney, Ph.D., FACMI, Chief Research Information Officer, UW Medicine The clinics and hospitals you lead accumulated large amounts of patient treatment data since the implementation of EHR systems. The promise of AI and data science in healthcare has ...
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Bespoke EHR: Fixing Usability and Physician Burnout One Specialty at a Time

By GQ Zhang, VP & Chief Data Scientist, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Physician Burnout Physician or clinician burnout, perhaps an underestimated and unintended consequence of the 2009 HITECH Act, negatively impacts patient care, clinician ...
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Achieving your Data and Analytic Ambitions

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 ...
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Adding App Dev Capabilities to Your Data & Analytics

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 ...
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How Big Data and AI are helping sift through data

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 ...
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Being data-driven leads to a new organizational structure

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 ...
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5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid on Your Organization’s Data-Driven Journey

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 ...
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Efficient, Reliable, and Faster Data – A Hierarchical & Modular Approach

By Victor Bagwell, Associate Chief of Information Science, Hackensack Meridian Health Advancements and increased availability of real-time data, medical imaging, and big data analytics has created a rapid increase in healthcare data volume. In parallel, there is more demand for ...
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