health data

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance February 8, 2016

Intelligent Clinical Decision Automation is the Future of Clinical Decision Support

By Alex Meshkin – What is “intelligent decision automation”? And why is it the future? Intelligent decision automation is a term used in some industries. It combines artificial intelligence (AI) with workflow automation and has the power to change the way business is done in nearly every sector of the economy.

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance February 2, 2016

Making the Cancer “Moonshot” a Reality

By Alex Meshkin – Just over a year ago, in his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative. During the 2016 State of the Union Address, Obama announced the “Cancer Moonshot” to cure cancer, with Vice President Biden at the helm.

Health Innovation December 8, 2015

What to Do with Health Data

By Matt Fisher – A Shakespearean Tangle: The current state of medical data is very complicated. The amount of medical data being created is exploding all of the time. The explosion is being facilitated by the always increasing number of ways of creating it and a broadening array of people or entities how want access to it.

Health Innovation October 1, 2015

Opening the Spigots of Health Data in the U.S. and UK

By Susannah Fox – I never feel so American as when I’m traveling abroad. And my most recent trip was the pinnacle of this experience since I was representing the U.S. government at the Health and Care Innovation Expo organized by the UK’s National Health System (NHS) in Manchester, England.

Health Information Exchange (HIE), Standards February 3, 2015

Universal Health Data and HIEs

By Robert Rowley, MD. Health information exchange (the verb) has been the goal of health IT, now that we have moved into the “post-EHR adoption” era of healthcare. Published and private surveys have shown that about 80% of physician practices have implemented an Electronic Health Record (EHR)…

Health Innovation October 29, 2014

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Data for Health Initiative

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched an initiative to assess how data can be used to improve health in our country. Data for Health seeks to explore how information and data can be harnessed to help people lead healthier lives and build a culture of health.