What’s the Healthcare CIO’s Role in the Buy versus Build Dilemma
With the focus on cost containment in healthcare, there has been significant growth in outsourcing clinical and patient care services.…
Mar 05, 2018
2018 New Year’s Resolution: To Use Data to Improve Outcomes while Reducing Cost
As we kick-off the New Year, new additions to value-based care metrics are on the horizon, which means more chaos…
Jan 09, 2018
Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science
Airlines are arguably more operationally complex, asset-intensive, and regulated than hospitals, yet the best performers are doing a better job…
Nov 02, 2017
Healthcare’s Complex Business Models Require Solutions that Address All Business Model Dimensions
Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author of Disruptive Business Models in Healthcare (Forbes 2009), discusses the complexity of…
Oct 23, 2017
Let’s Stop Trying to Change Physician Behavior
The digital revolution has provided, and will continue to provide populations, patients and providers, smaller, faster, and less expensive tools…
Jan 24, 2017
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…
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…
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…
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…
Jul 21, 2016