Year: 2016

5 Ways to Slow Record Medicare Readmission Penalties

We’ve documented Medicare Readmission penalties recently touching new highs. Of the 3,400 hospitals currently participating in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, only…

Shail Choksi
Oct 18, 2016

Medicare’s Readmission Penalties Just Hit New High, Now What?

A recent report from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, highlighted a sobering trend; for FY 2017, most…

Shail Choksi
Sep 19, 2016

Data science and hospital value based purchasing has us excited for healthcare, here’s why you should be too

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system Walter Cronkite, 1993 You may have missed it, but…

Sheila Talton
Jul 25, 2016

Reflections from Healthcare Analytics 2016

As a co-sponsor, we were privileged to participate in this year’s Healthcare Analytics 2016 conference, held in Chicago. As old…

Sheila Talton
Jul 21, 2016

Radical Transparency or just TMI?

An open letter on culture, client centered design, and connecting at scale. . . . TODAY’S LESSON Going viral in…

Sheila Talton
Jun 08, 2016

3 Ways to Build an Analytics Dream Team

Of the original 12 members of the 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team, 11 are in the NBA Hall of Fame…

Sheila Talton
Mar 28, 2016

From Pilot to Enterprise Solution: How Analytics and Innovation Design Pace Digital Transformation

88% of the Fortune 500 companies in 1955 are now gone. Think your company is keeping pace with digital? Around…

Sheila Talton
Mar 24, 2016

A Bicycle for the Mind: Beyond Big Data hype, making sense of digital disruption, innovation and the analytics of everything

Recently, at work, we found ourselves wondering if a particular company was a competitor. So we dove into some competitive…

Sheila Talton
Feb 09, 2016

Slowing Big Data Confusion Starts In the C-Suite

Confusion: What’s the confusion? As it should be, the targeted business audience for Big Data, Business Intelligence and data analytics…

Sheila Talton
Jan 14, 2016
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