Data Mining

2013 Up-and-Comer: Health Catalyst, LLC

May 10, 2013     David Raths
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A team that spent years fine-tuning the development of data warehousing in the 1990s at Intermountain Healthcare has started making a big impact in the industry by replicating the success they had at Intermountain. The company that grew out of their work, Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst, has formed partnerships with several large integrated health networks.

2013 Up-and-Comer: Care Team Connect, Inc.

May 8, 2013     David Raths
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Like many entrepreneurial efforts in health care, the inspiration for Care Team Connect grew out of a personal experience. CEO Benjamin Albert had worked at PatientKeeper Inc., a company that was doing some impressive work in acute- care settings. “Then my grandfather had a stroke, and I watched as the post-acute-care world failed around him,” Albert says.

The State of Mississippi Medicaid to Integrate Claims, Clinical Data

April 11, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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The State of Mississippi’s Medicaid division is looking to integrate claims and clinical data from various health information exchanges, and will be using a product from the Emeryville, Calif.-based performance management software vendor, MedeAnalytics to do so.

The Road to Technology-Enabled Quality Care

March 3, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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Two nurse leaders from Oakland, Calif.-based integrated healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente revealed real-world lessons learned for transforming care to improve quality, safety and efficiency in the clinical setting utilizing clinical decision support, data mining and advanced analytics at the pre-conference nursing symposium at HIMSS13 in New Orleans.

Kansas HIE Transmits Immunization Data to Web-Based State Registry

February 26, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) and the Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of interoperability technology that enables care coordination and health information exchange (HIE), have announced they have successfully transmitted immunizations through the ICA CareAlign HIE platform from the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, a federally qualified health center, to the Kansas Immunization Registry, KSWebIZ.

VA Signs Massive Contract to Deploy RTLS Technology

February 21, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to a $543 million contract with HP Enterprise Services and Intelligent InSites to deploy a real-time locating system (RTLS) technology in 152 VA medical centers.

Top 10 Tech Trends: Big Data Analytics: From Volume to Value

February 14, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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As many healthcare organizations are in the preliminary stages of their big data initiatives, the next frontier—which involves surveillance and predictive analytics—is littered with more questions and challenges.

Cardiology Groups Establish EHR Data Elements

January 31, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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Recently, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced they are teaming up to improve data collection in electronic health records (EHRs) through a set of standardized data elements and definitions for the clinical management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and coronary artery disease (CAD).

IOM Report Details Strategy for Monitoring Safety of Childhood Immunization Schedule

January 22, 2013     John DeGaspari
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A review of the available evidence underscores the safety of the federal childhood immunization schedule, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. However, the report offers a framework for conducting safety research using existing or new data collection systems. should signals indicate the need for investigation of the schedule.

ONC’s Annual Meeting: The Promise of Patient Engagement

December 12, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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This week, at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) third annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C., a pair of panelists looked at the various opportunities of patient engagement, while exploring current government and private-led initiatives and technologies.

Researcher: ER Patients Dead and Alive in Federal Database

October 26, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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According to a report produced by a Loma Linda University Medical Center researcher, and posted on the Annals of Emergency Medicine website, a number of intubated emergency patients within a federal database were listed as both dead and alive. The report calls into the data quality of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), which is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A Federal Demo Offers Clues on Metadata Tagging for Secure Data-Sharing

September 26, 2012     Mark Hagland
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I was fascinated to read the September 17 joint announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that those two federal departments had successfully demonstrated the successful use of metadata tagging in the exchange of patient health data.
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