June 13, 2013 David Raths
blog
Vendors in the analytics-as-a-service space include Apixio, Explorys and Humedica. “This is going to be the way healthcare will consume big data,” said IDC Health Insights' Cynthia Burghard. “It is just too complicated for the average healthcare organization to invest in.”
June 5, 2013 John DeGaspari
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A study that electronic medical records can validate previously reported adverse drug reactions and report new ones, according to report in the May Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The study, “Comparative Analysis of Pharmacovigilance Methods in Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions from Electronic Medical Records,” examined the use of retrospective medication orders and inpatient laboratory results documented in the medical records to identify adverse reactions.
June 4, 2013 David Raths
blog
Accountable care organization leaders say they have no interest in being software developers. Yet some believe they have no choice but to develop their own systems when they find nothing on the market that matched their needs.
June 3, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
Heritage Provider Network, an integrated care delivery network, based out of Northridge, Calif., recently announced the results of an analytics competition it held, handing out a $500,000 award to a team that had come closest to reaching the benchmark it set. The announcement was made at Health Datapalooza IV, in Washington D.C.
April 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), a research university in Portland, Ore., has announced a new partnership with Intel to develop computing technologies that will aim to advance the field of personalized medicine. The technology will look to increase “the speed, precision, and cost-effectiveness” of analyzing a patient’s genetic profile, as engineers and scientists from both institutions will work together on the multi-year project.
April 12, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The States of Arkansas and South Carolina are investing in big data to change how they deliver healthcare services, the two agencies recently announced in separate releases. Both state governments will do through “Smarter Cities” from IBM (Armonk, N.Y.), which aims to use analytics to streamline various processes and integrate data sources.
March 13, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has announced its investing in analytics software from the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant IBM, which will test the effectiveness of a real-time alarm that tries and predicts rising brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injuries. Also joining this collaboration is and Excel Medical Electronics (EME), a Jupiter, Fla.-based data acquisition platform provider.
February 1, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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MD Anderson, the Houston-based cancer center, has announced its going to start up an organization-wide analytics initiative, aimed at creating new types of personalized cancer treatments. The cancer center said it will use the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle to lay the foundation for this analytics initiative, which will aim to bring together clinical, genomic, financial, administrative and operational information from internal and external sources.
January 8, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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There is no question that certain kinds of patients, especially those with chronic diseases, can cost a significant amount of dollars to a healthcare provider. At Summa Health, a large integrated provider out of Akron, Ohio, leaders are using a centralized data repository and an automated phone calling service to improve outcomes for diabetes patients.
December 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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A new report from the Rockville, Md.-based research and consulting firm, MarketsandMarkets indicates that the healthcare analytics market is set for double-digit growth over the coming years thanks to the emergence of big data and the advance of analytical technologies. The report, "Healthcare Analytics/Medical Analytics Market - Trends & Global Forecasts to 2017, says that by 2017 the healthcare analytics industry will be worth $10.8 billion.
