data analytics

Innovation in Population Data Analytics

By Adam Wong – The SMART Health IT team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR API.


It’s All Informatics to Me

By William Hersh MD – In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting…


Digital Transformation Starts with Data

By Peyman Zand – Healthcare systems are inundated with data coming from a variety of sources – legacy systems, new applications, third-party clinical applications bolted on from acquisitions and more. A solid strategy for data architecture and data analytics for clinical decision support and patient engagement can be a differentiator for health systems – and the key to true digital transformation.