- My Talk with Strata Decision Technologyby Jason BurkeI had the good fortune of meeting the CEO of Strata Decision Technology, Dan Michelson, at the last HIMSS conference. He attended one of my talks and asked if I might spend some time sharing with his team some of… Read more: My Talk with Strata Decision Technology
- SAMSI’s Advances in Precision and Personalized Medicineby Jason BurkeI was pleased to be able to spend some time this week with the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). If you are not familiar with SAMSI, it is a partnership of Duke University, North Carolina State University (NCSU), and… Read more: SAMSI’s Advances in Precision and Personalized Medicine
- Not Just Another Pretty Faceby Jason BurkeTake a look at the photographs below and see if you can detect what is unusual about these people. Look carefully! Give up? The answer is that these are not real people — they are photographs generated by analytics. Using… Read more: Not Just Another Pretty Face
- HIMSS 2019by Jason BurkeAfter taking a break for a few years, I was able to attend this year’s annual HIMSS conference. If you were unable to attend, I can sum up the industry trends in two words: interoperability and analytics. I was there… Read more: HIMSS 2019
- Triangle Health Innovation Challengeby Jason BurkeI was delighted to be able to serve as a judge for the 2019 Triangle Health Innovation Challenge (THInC). It is always exciting to see clinicians and students from all different backgrounds collaborating on new ways of looking at health… Read more: Triangle Health Innovation Challenge
- Health Technology Symposium Todayby Jason BurkeI had the wonderful opportunity to participate in today’s Health Technology Symposium: Health Ethics at the Intersection of Data and Technology being orchestrated by the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP). If you are not familiar with CHIP, you should be… Read more: Health Technology Symposium Today
- Sharing Models of Health Analytics Successby Jason BurkeI’m honored to have been asked by HIMSS to share some of the models for success in developing health analytics capabilities at next week’s HIMSS Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, MA. As I shared in my last… Read more: Sharing Models of Health Analytics Success
- Reaching Peak Analytical Maturityby Jason BurkeHealthcare IT News wrote a very nice article summarizing our work at UNC Health Care System in achieving Stage 7 advanced analytics recognition. I’m very proud of our team!
- My Team covered by Techwireby Jason BurkeIf you are interested in what my team and I are up to at UNC Health Care System, WRAL Techwire’s story “Using ‘big data’ analytics to improve healthcare: Growing UNC Health Care data wranglers search for answers” tells the story… Read more: My Team covered by Techwire
- Predictive Analytics World 2018by Jason BurkeI was super excited to give a keynote address in the healthcare track of this years Predictive Analytics World. Though I’m not necessarily a fan of Las Vegas (I find it hard to be in a statistical field and still… Read more: Predictive Analytics World 2018
- Enterprise Capability Development for Health Analyticsby Jason BurkeI was asked by the folks at Corinium Global Intelligence to give a keynote address and participate in a discussion panel at their Chief Data and Analytics Officer Winter Event. It was a great opportunity to provide a little more… Read more: Enterprise Capability Development for Health Analytics
- My Trip to Shanghaiby Jason BurkeI was delighted to be invited to PharmaSUG China’s annual conference to deliver a keynote address on the state of health analytics. It was an amazing trip (slides can be found here)! During my visit, I had an opportunity to… Read more: My Trip to Shanghai
- Data-driven Transformation to Value-based Careby Jason BurkeHealthTech published a nice article today summarizing what the UNC Health Care System and other providers are doing in harnessing data to drive transformational improvements.
- Community Psychiatrists’ Leadership Symposiumby Jason BurkeI was honored to be invited to speak at the Seventh Annual Community Psychiatrist’s Leadership Symposium here in Chapel Hill. The title of my talk was “Enabling Health Transformation with Analytics and Data Sciences,” It is a really great forum… Read more: Community Psychiatrists’ Leadership Symposium
- Data-Driven Population Healthby Jason BurkeBeckers Hospital Review gave a nice shout out to 5 health delivery organizations that are investing in data-driven population health programs. Our team at the UNC Health Care System was one of the five recognized for the work we are… Read more: Data-Driven Population Health
- CXO Insights Article: The Coming Era of High Performance Medicineby Jason BurkeCIO Review recently published an article I wrote regarding how the health care industry can increase the value from their information technology assets. The article, called The Coming Era of High Performance Medicine, focusing on the intersection of enterprise architecture… Read more: CXO Insights Article: The Coming Era of High Performance Medicine
- I’m Hiring at UNC Health Careby Jason BurkeFor those that may be unaware, I’ve taken on a new role with the UNC Health Care System, and I am building a new team. We are creating an innovative, industry-leading example of a system-wide health analytics organization – one that is… Read more: I’m Hiring at UNC Health Care
- Reducing Readmissionsby Jason BurkeInformation Management did a nice article on the work our team has been doing in using data and analytics to reduce hospital readmissions. It also covers some of the principles we have used in building our enterprise analytics strategy and… Read more: Reducing Readmissions
- UNC / Duke Seminar: Making Medicine Smarter Through Analytics and Data Scienceby Jason BurkeUNC, Duke, and other universities in our state have a joint Health Informatics Research Seminar series, and they were kind enough to ask me to come share some thoughts on the state of the health analytics industry. You can see… Read more: UNC / Duke Seminar: Making Medicine Smarter Through Analytics and Data Science
- Creating an Analytics-Powered Learning Health Systemby Jason BurkeI was pleased to be able to deliver a talk during Health Data Management’s Healthcare Analytics Symposium. The magazine wrote a brief article summarizing the talk.
- Designing Health Systems that Learnby Jason BurkeMedical Informatics World was kind enough to invite me back this year to give a talk on moving towards learning health systems. If you’d like to see the slides (the video doesn’t show them), you can download them here. I… Read more: Designing Health Systems that Learn
- The Road to High Performance Medicineby Jason BurkeMedical Informatics World asked me to deliver a keynote address on how analytics are evolving within the health and life sciences markets. They were nice enough to record the talk and post it to YouTube, so I’ve provided the link… Read more: The Road to High Performance Medicine
- Growing Beyond Yesterday’s Population Health Managementby Jason BurkeThis article was originally published in InformationWeek, March 26, 2014. Data can transform healthcare, but not with just any ordinary analytics. Analytics — the mathematical savior of oh-so-many population health management (PHM) programs — is all the rage in… Read more: Growing Beyond Yesterday’s Population Health Management
- The 5 Most Annoying Data Excusesby Jason Burke
I recently had an interesting Twitter exchange with my friend Dan Munro over at Forbes regarding a KevinMD posting, Quality is a Word that Lacks Universal Meaning. The article touched on one of my book topics: the industry’s reporting-centric, manufacturing-oriented conceptualization of quality is ambiguous and unreflective of the problem space. We need to look at quality differently…
- Top 10 questions about the health analytics bookby Jason Burke
Well, today is the day — Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care is finally out! I promised to cover the book in more detail, so today I thought I would take the opportunity to answer some of the more common questions that I get asked about the book.
- 7 Reasons ACOs and Health Analytics Need Enterprise Architectureby Jason Burke
Organizations looking to build or participate in risk-delegated delivery models (like ACOs) would be well served to look at the discipline of enterprise architecture (EA). In short, ACOs need health analytics, and health analytics need an enterprise architecture.
- An HIT Framework for ACOs: where is the IT?by Jason Burke
A few weeks ago, CCHIT released it’s HIT Framework for Accountable Care. The 42-page document is “designed as a starting point for provider groups developing HIT roadmaps, for payers looking to assess or complement the HIT capabilities of their provider partners and for HIT developers designing products to fill gaps in currently available technology.” But there is very little IT in the HIT framework.
- Health Analytics vs. Business Intelligenceby Jason BurkeOne of the questions I get asked frequently is the difference between business intelligence and health analytics. And I struggle with a good answer; there is so much inconsistency in the use of terminology in this space, and to answer… Read more: Health Analytics vs. Business Intelligence
- My Health Analytics Symposium Talkby Jason BurkeThis past summer, I was fortunate enough to be asked to deliver one of the keynote addresses at the first Health Analytics Symposium conference. Afterwards, a number of people asked for copies of my materials, which I’m fine to provide… Read more: My Health Analytics Symposium Talk
- Seven Reasons Why That Beautiful Informatics Architecture Won’t Deliverby Jason BurkeEvery organization has one: the informatics diagram. It flows from left to right, starting with a few source systems and ending with users doing incredible things in browsers and mobile devices. It looks well thought out, comprehensive, and flexible. I’ve… Read more: Seven Reasons Why That Beautiful Informatics Architecture Won’t Deliver
- Does health care need “big data” or “big insights?”by Jason BurkeI’m thinking of starting my own medical condition: Big Data Fatigue Syndrome (BDFS): a cognitive disorder characterized by feelings of frustration, disbelief, and growing apathy caused by repeated exposure to over-hyped technology concepts. Occasionally accompanied by recurring fantasies of slapping… Read more: Does health care need “big data” or “big insights?”
- Nine Truths in US Health Reformby Jason BurkeWhen it comes to health reform, it is time for the American people to “agree to agree.” I don’t pick political sides in the endless debates on US health policy. But as the impending election approaches, more and more political… Read more: Nine Truths in US Health Reform