By Sarianne Gruber – Before we had patient panels and electronic health records, there were patient study logs and regulatory binders. Yet, the same questions are asked today when analyzing study outcomes as yesteryear. How do you assess a treatment, procedure or process for a specific disease in your population sample with the presence of confounding diseases? The answer is a Comorbidity Index.
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By Erica Galvez – Recent ONC analyses from a nationwide survey of non-federal acute care hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlight the near universal adoption of EHRs by hospitals and significant increases in hospitals’ electronically exchanging health information with outside providers compared to past years.
By William Hersh – Even though many medical students and physicians do not acknowledge it, information has always been a major focus of clinical practice. Physicians have always spent a great deal of time with information, as evidenced by studies that describe time use of physicians.
Chief Data Scientist, Dr. Paul Bradley, an expert in the field of predictive analytics and ZirMed’s Chief Data Scientist, has been selected to present at two upcoming big data conferences in Boston and Santa Clara this September.
By Sarianne Gruber – Pharmaceutical Industry Moves Towards Transparency – The health industry has begun to feel the effects of heightened transparency as consumers, physicians, insurers, pharma and life sciences companies and others become armed with more data.
CMS is encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the MH Model, and encourage you to join this important study. Act now, space is limited! Enroll today to secure your spot in this important study! A complete, detailed description of the Request For Applications is now available.
By Steve Spearman – Conventional wisdom says that you’re trying to work with a patient’s health care analytics, you’ve got to use “clean data”. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, “clean data” is personal data your patient has generated on social media, but with all of the irrelevant or contradicting data removed in an attempt to make get the most accurate health information possible.
By Connie Chitwood-Vu – Many Americans fail to realize that diabetes is the seventh deadliest disease with 29.1 million Americans currently living with this condition. Despite the severity of diabetes, the general population has a striking knowledge gap when it comes to understanding the causes, impacts, costs and treatment options for this all-to-common disease.
By Paula Braun – All information captured on death certificates – such as race, gender, and marital status – matters. In my previous blog post, I wrote about the importance of the cause-of-death fields; however, every element of the certificate is important. Capturing the information timely and accurately is more than just an administrative requirement with public health benefits.