My blog about becoming a Healthcare Data Scientist, Healthcare Big Data and Analytics, Healthcare Predictive Analytics, Infographics, and assorted Emergency Medicine/Learning Health System/Complexity Science topics.
Ed Marx, who is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Cleveland Clinic, gives a fascinating keynote presentation to the HIMSS (Health Information Management and Systems Society) Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum. His presentation is definitely worth watching. There are a few key points that I would like to review. These fit in nicely […]
You may have heard of the concepts of “Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE)” or “Competency Center (CC)” (1). This is nicely explained in the reference (Wright-Jones, 2015). This refers to a “cross-organizational group responsible for a specific function …, with an ultimate goal to reduce time to value”. The main purpose of a CoE […]
There is a common axiom that today “every business is a digital business”. There are several alternatives to this as well – “every business is a technology business” and “every business will become a software business” (Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella’s comment at the 2015 US Convergence conference). Healthcare organizations are no exception – they are […]
I feel privileged to have been invited for the second year in a row to Cerner’s Strategic Client Summit. The meeting location – downtown San Diego – and the Summit content were both fantastic. I will attempt to summarize a few key concepts, and why I feel optimistic about where Cerner is heading – both […]
I thought I would post some information on a new type of clinical trial that has been created that is a fusion of the Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) and big data analytics. This is based on a discussion that occurred in my Northwestern University Master of Science in Predictive Analytics statistics class (PREDICT 401). The […]
Originally posted on The TAO of Health by Paddy Padmanabhan:
In my work with healthcare enterprises, I have realized that the term “analytics” means all kinds of things depending on who you speak with, and the term “predictive modeling” tends to carry a certain mystique about it. The former usually means Business Intelligence (BI), which…