Alex Gorelik, CTO & Founder of Waterline Data
According to IDC, all the data that’s being created and captured in healthcare is projected to grow by 36 percent (CAGR)—more than any other industry.
While managing growing volumes of data is a common challenge for many organizations across all sectors, healthcare is uniquely set apart by the sheer number of new data sources that’s being made available—with new sources being added all the time. This is driven in large part by advancements in
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Life Image Launches Real World Imaging for RWE Programs
- Life Image launches Real World Imaging (RWI) offering to respond to researcher needs for maturing insights and accelerating drug development decisions.
- Imaging data, especially for Real World Evidence (RWE), has historically been difficult, if not impossible, to access, retrieve, view, de-identify and normalize at-scale, even though it provides clinically material insights for a growing number of therapies.
- Life Image represents the only company providing large,
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5 Steps to Achieving a Mature Enterprise-Class Quality Program
Jeffrey Springer, Sr. VP of Healthcare Solutions for CitiusTech
The game is changing faster than ever as more payer contracts and regulatory programs adopt risk-based models. To be successful, payer and provider organizations know they must increase quality scores and revenue while reducing avoidable medical costs. Yet, the providers who are critical to that success are burned out. According to a recent survey, nearly one-third of providers say their biggest frustration is constant “busy
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How A Hybrid Cloud Fax Solution Protects Patient Health Information
Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX
Electronic health and medical records (EHRs) enhance the patient experience and improve care coordination, but they can also put patients and providers at risk if they are not protected. Security vulnerabilities can arise from communicating via unsecured channels such as email and can result in data breaches, compromised patient records, and even identity theft. As medical records contain personal information such as social security numbers and insurance ID numbers,
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Healthcare’s Uncertain Future: 3 Data-Driven Approaches for Payers
Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti
Nine out of 10 healthcare leaders expect disruptive pressures to increase tremendously in the year ahead, according to a recent survey. However, fewer than half believe their organizations are prepared to withstand these forces.
In an era of transformation—in which traditional business models are continually being revamped in response to pressures such as consumerism, policy changes, and the market entrance of
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Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle
Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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NTT Data, Oracle Collaborate to Bring Healthcare Big Data to the Cloud
NTT DATA, Inc. announced the expansion of its existing relationship with Oracle to include end-to-end cloud capabilities for Oracle’s Healthcare Foundation, a unified healthcare analytics platform. The platform provides data integration and warehousing of clinical, financial, administrative and -omics modules in a cloud solution to customers worldwide. The healthcare cloud offering will provide organizations the ability to easily unify, grow or replace their existing healthcare data warehouse
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Why Unstructured Data Holds the Key to Intelligent Healthcare Systems
This post is sponsored by SyTrue
As the brawn of big data continues to swell, the quandary of actually realizing value from it rises with the tide; part of the problem is that most data remains largely untapped because most data remains largely unstructured. For try as technology vendors might—the subtleties of clinical data are innately complex—and natively human.
Cross-industry consensus illustrates that approximately 80 percent of all data remains unstructured. In healthcare,
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