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Making a Class Act: 6 Rules to Ensure Training Sessions at a High Level
Whether participants in a training session are there by choice or obligation, their time is at a premium. If their training journey is to be worthwhile, it’s worth the effort to set some basic rules of...
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Automating for Efficiency
Staffing challenges and budget constraints are prompting healthcare companies to look hard for efficiencies. Automating redundant tasks is a logical choice. Any repetitive task that has a set list of...
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After 20 Years Managing the Revenue Cycle, Here’s One Thing I’m Just Learning...
It really pays to get a checkup – even before you know something’s wrong. And especially if we’re talking about a revenue cycle management system. This pearl of wisdom has become increasingly clear to...
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5 key actions to unleash the power of healthcare data for real-world results
So much potential remains untapped in healthcare data analytics. Transformation is possible in terms of care quality, efficiency, population health and more. As we continue working toward these big...
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Protecting the Bottom Line from Medicare Sequestration Cuts
Nearly four years after the two percent Medicare Sequestration Reduction took effect, health plans and provider groups continue to grapple with the financial effects. Some health plans and delegated...
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Centricity LIVE 2017
May 17-20, 2017 Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts Centricity LIVE is GE Healthcare’s premier IT education conference, offering thought leadership, best practice sharing, interactive...
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Managing Chaos Part 1: Putting a Change Control Process in Place
With change requests coming in daily from multiple directions, many of us struggle to manage system changes. Without a Change Control system, chaos looms: requests fall through the cracks, low-priority...
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To accelerate the shift to value-based care, be prepared to think outside the...
Value-based care is real. The shift is happening now. In the early stages of this shift, the ongoing explosion of data collection capability has been a huge boost to the industry’s efforts. We’re...
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Managing Chaos Part 2: Change Control Decision Making
Without a Change Control process it’s nearly impossible to track requests for system changes, assess feasibility, make and test the change, put it into production and keep interested parties in the...
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How Analytics Can Deliver in L&D: A Look at the Uniquely Valuable Insights...
Labor and delivery (L&D) departments across the country are facing some vexing dilemmas: pressure to meet Joint Commission standards, follow AWHONN specifications and uphold state requirements. And...
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Managing Chaos Part 3: Testing and Rolling Out Changes
A Change Control process is essential to help track requests for system changes, assess feasibility, make and test the change, put it into production and alert your organization. Here, I talk about...
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The Paradox of Healthcare Analytics
Balancing the profound and the mundane – a challenge that continues to inspire me six months into a new industry In a career building analytics platforms and applications, I’ve been fortunate to work...
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What My Doctor Can Learn from My Dentist
I truly fear and dread going to the dentist. Despite that, I find myself more engaged and empowered in my dental care experience than at my traditional medical doctor’s office. Let me set the scene: My...
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Avoiding Analytics Speed Bumps: 6 Drivers to Accelerate Your Success
As healthcare organizations move toward value-based care, one of the most common questions I hear is: How can we implement an analytics solution faster? Many people are understandably eager to use...
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5 Lessons from the Trenches of Analytics Implementation
Whenever I meet with an organization about how to leverage analytics in their business, I often hear the same challenges: “We’re having a hard time doing anything more than reporting.” “Our data just...
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Smaller Slices of Data Can Produce Cost Savings in the OR
Many healthcare provider organizations are spending large amounts of time and energy to develop, deploy and extract value from massive data warehouses. But in doing so, are they missing out on more...
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Let’s Use Analytics to Get to the Heart of the Matter
Clinical Care Improvements Are Waiting to Be Uncovered in Cardiology The burgeoning discipline of data analytics in healthcare has so far focused largely on operational and financial outcomes. We’ve...
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Getting Rapid Value from Data Shouldn’t Be a Labor
Start with These 4 Fundamental Elements of Perinatal Analytics Success One of the most exciting things about analytics is how it gives clinicians real-time information at the patient bedside – not...
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Man + Machine: Made for Each Other
The Robots Are Coming … to Simplify Your Workflow Right now, there’s some fear around data-driven solutions. I often hear customers wondering: Are computer algorithms going to take over the role of...
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Are you losing your data to a black hole?
How to apply analytics to fuel your department’s performance forward Data is thrilling, isn’t it? You open up a brand new report, skim the results, compare it to the benchmarks, and then … what? If...
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