Author: Renee Towne

Improving the pandemic response – and patient lives – with comprehensive analytics that overcome health care data obstacles. On any given day in health care organizations across America, physicians are analyzing test results, pharmacists are calculating medication dosages and executives are monitoring performance data. Surrounded by information from various technologies, they use data to drive…
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Health care organizations across the nation are scrambling to address the coronavirus outbreak. What is desperately needed is real-time clinical information from the region to understand the risk, prevalence and characteristics of COVID-19 cases. With the rapidly evolving pandemic situation and the declaration of a National Emergency, Health Information Exchanges (HIE) are the key to…
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Advanced analytics have come a long way since the introduction of using administrative data to measure the quality of care. Insights derived from medical and pharmacy data can change how well conditions are identified and managed, whether that is based on data from claims and/or clinical sources, there are powerful analytics that can contribute to…
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With increasing national costs, inconsistent quality outcomes, and an exploding wealth of health data, health information exchanges (HIE) are at an inflection point when it comes to value-based care. This is evident on the stakeholder side with growing demand for technology to reduce reporting burdens and support improved performance. The same holds true for streamlining…
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Emergency departments are our nation’s back-up plan, intercepting urgent conditions of all types and intervening to stabilize and regain health. Emergency departments found their place in our health care system to provide decisive, rapid care to patients with life-threatening conditions. Today, too many patients seek care in the emergency department for non-life altering reasons. 25%…
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