By Sarianne Gruber – Identifying appropriate KPIs in healthcare is not a trivial task. And when it relates to improving healthcare quality and operational performance, few tasks are as important. KPIs are often confused with general metrics just because you can measure them – although there is a very important distinction.
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By Sarianne Gruber – The Fifth Annual New York eHealth Collaborative Gala & PATH Awards celebrated a well-deserved cause –delivering better healthcare for all New Yorkers. For the fifth consecutive year, the NYeC has been recognizing and honoring the achievements and innovations of “transformative pioneers who changed the landscape of healthcare delivery in New York in the field of health information technology.”
By Sarianne Gruber – Population Health Management strives for health providers to care for their patients with the overarching goal of improving quality outcomes, coupled with lower costs. Healthcare reform expects the inclusion of all associated costs of care and treatment for a comprehensive analysis as a means to reduce the per capita cost of healthcare.
By Sarianne Gruber – In a recent conversation with WPC Healthcare’s Chief Data Scientist, Damian Mingle shares how he developed an algorithm for detecting West Nile disease, which will be presented in Sri Lanka at the Global Public Health Conference in December 2015.
By Sarianne Gruber – Part 2 of an interview with Elizabeth Stuart, PhD a professor of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
By Sarianne Gruber – A statistician by training, Elizabeth Stuart, PhD is a professor of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in the age of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), her research on developing and applying methods to estimate causal effects is a hot button topic.
By Sarianne Gruber – How effective is diagnosis in healthcare? Constantine Gatsonis PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Brown University, has been asking this question for over twenty years with diagnostic imaging studies.
By Sarianne Gruber – The aging population in the US brings with it special concerns that will inevitably change the focus of many healthcare providers and organizations. Press Ganey, a leader in patient experience measurement, released last month its newest research on Patient Experience in the Very Elderly: An Emerging Strategic Focus.
By Sarianne Gruber – Apervita has conceived a common way for sharing information, and coined it “a democratization of health knowledge”. They have unlocked analytics as a self-service and removed the need to hard code algorithms to a given data model.