My Talk with Strata Decision Technology
I 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…
exc-5c69914271c10bf8996fd066
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Take 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…
CXO Insights Article: The Coming Era of High Performance Medicine
CIO 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…
Growing Beyond Yesterday’s Population Health Management
This 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…
The 5 Most Annoying Data Excuses
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 book
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.
An HIT Framework for ACOs: where is the IT?
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 Intelligence
One 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…
Seven Reasons Why That Beautiful Informatics Architecture Won’t Deliver
Every 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…
Does health care need “big data” or “big insights?”
I’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…