Health IT Business News – March 26, 2015
Health Catalyst announced it has raised $70 million. The funding round, led by existing investor Norwest Venture Partners, included contributions from other existing investors Sequoia…
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The Practical Use of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model
By Jared Crapo – I spend a lot of time talking to healthcare organizations about analytics and the practical uses of implementing an analytics adoption model. Oftentimes, though, these discussions turn to other related topics, such as data warehousing, dashboards, natural language processing, Hadoop, population health, meaningful use reporting, predictive modeling, and lots of stuff in between.
Health IT Business News – Thursday, January 15, 2015
Read up on the latest business news on health IT vendors. Analytics, BI and Data warehousing company, Health Catalyst, has been recognized by KLAS for its “innovative approach to analytics,” speedy implementations and proactive customer support.
2nd Day Brings Us Two Twitter Doves
On day two of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts we turn to Twitter. What would our year have looked like without Twitter? Our version of an alternate ending to It’s a Wonderful Life?
2015 Healthcare Technology Trends
There is much debate whether the long awaited ACO reimbursement model introduced through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be successful in achieving the goals of health reform. I think critics are missing the point.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – November
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thought on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of November.
Avoiding Common Healthcare Analytics Pitfalls
When you invested in an analytics, I’m guessing you signed up for data-driven solutions, not additional healthcare analytics pitfalls and inefficiencies. Yet that’s exactly what your health system is dealing with — problems and inefficiencies that keep popping up when all you really want to focus on is improving quality and cost.
Health IT Business News – Monday, Sept. 29, 2014
Today’s Business News Modernizing Medicine has announced its inaugural EMA Nation Users Conference. The conference will provide a venue for users of this specialty-specific electronic health record (EHR)…
Much Hadoop About Something
To Hadoop or Not to Hadoop and the Impact on Big Data Riddle me this. Hadoop is: An open-source software platform for storing and processing…