White Papers

A low-resolution photograph doesn’t show much detail about the image’s subjects and environment. Viewers can only guess about the scene or individuals they’re observing—are they familiar faces, happy or sad, or is there something usual in the background? Low-quality healthcare data and analytics works like a subpar photo. Users can see the most basic characteristics of a patient or trend but not enough detail to make informed decisions. For example, does a patient have comorbidities putting them at greater risk, or is a facility trending towards an increase in sepsis? For better view, high-quality data and analytics bring patients and health system operations into focus, showing a clear, comprehensive picture from the patient to facility level.

医疗系统选择建立一个数据平台，而不是在商业解决方案上与医疗分析供应商合作，可能有一些令人信服的原因。世界杯厄瓜多尔vs塞内加尔波胆预测然而，当组织可能认为他们节省了资金、获得了控制权和安全性，并且更多地选择了一种本土的方法时，他们很可能会遇到挑战、隐性成本和限制。与来自供应商的商业级、特定于医疗保健的平台相比，构建自己的解决方案在特定于领域的内容、技术专长、总拥有成本等方面存世界杯厄瓜多尔vs塞内加尔波胆预测在不足。2022卡塔尔世界杯赛程表时间在出售平台上合作的组织大大提高了他们随着时间的推移优化和扩大分析投资的机会，并世界杯厄瓜多尔vs塞内加尔波胆预测实现可测量的改进。

Was COVID-19 a wake-up call to prioritize healthcare analytics and merge them with other healthcare goals? Healthcare data and analytics have become inextricable from the pandemic response, proving to the industry it can’t save lives at scale without this information and insight. In a 2021 survey of healthcare leaders and professionals, nearly 80 percent of respondents report they plan to maintain pandemic-driven data and analytics shifts for the long term. And with most respondents recognizing gaps in their data and analytics and noting COVID-19-driven changes in the data and analytics landscape, the pandemic may likely catalyze a new, more robust era in healthcare technology and decision support.

The long-term success of healthcare performance improvement relies on a sustainable infrastructure and strategic execution. Otherwise, improvement initiatives risk becoming one-off projects that don’t support ongoing advances in critical areas, such as critical areas, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and organizational cost.Healthcare organizations can follow six steps for a sustainable, impactful performance improvement program:1. Integrate performance improvement into strategic objectives.2. Use analytics to unlock data and identify areas of opportunity.3. Prioritize programs using a combination of analytics and an adoption system.4. Define the performance improvement program’s permanent teams.5. Use a best-practice system to define program outcomes and interventions.6. Estimate the ROI.

医疗保健消费者正在要求医疗保健的价格透明度与他们在其他交易中的价格透明度相同——特别是在医疗保健不再采用按服务收费的模式，而患者要承担更大一部分医疗费用的情况下。与此同时，截至2021年1月，联邦法规要求卫生系统公开其服务收费。然而，医疗保健行业在消费者级价格透明度方面一直没有取得成功。组织机构现在必须想办法弥补他们的成本和病人收费之间的差距。Doing so requires comprehensive understanding of all the costs behind a service and consumer-friendly explanation of how these expenses translate into prices

Along with the rest of the globe, 2021 healthcare trends across Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries will center on COVID-19 recovery and resuming the healthcare improvement journey. In the APAC region, however, a mix of developed and developing countries poses unique challenges, as healthcare access and basic infrastructure vary widely between urban and rural populations and economic levels. To shepherd healthcare out of the pandemic and enhance delivery overall in 2021, APAC nations will focus on increasing investment in digital health (including virtual care, machine learning, and EMR adoption), achieving universal health coverage, shifting more towards value, and improving payer-provider relationships.

Between 2017 and 2020, more than 93 percent of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach. While digital technology and connectivity is increasingly critical in meeting operational and clinical challenges, such as COVID-19, more integration also enables increased exposure to cyberattacks that can impact care delivery, safety, and privacy.In response to healthcare’s significant and growing cybersecurity threats, vendor organizations and their health system partners need a security framework. A defensible protocol holds vendors accountable to routine audits and compliance measures at a regular cadence, ensuring both parties keep cybersecurity programs active and optimized.

In addition to driving COVID-19 understanding within the United States, a national disease registry is informing research beyond U.S. borders. Clinicians with the Singapore Ministry of Healthcare Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) have used Health Catalyst Touchstone® COVID-19 data to develop a machine learning tool that helps predict the likelihood of COVID-19 mortality. With this national data set that leverages deep aggregated EHR data, the MOHT accessed the research-grade data it needed to build a machine-learning algorithm that predicts risk of death from COVID-19. The registry-informed prediction model was accurate enough to stand up to comparisons in the published literature and promises to help inform vaccine research and, ultimately, allocation of vaccines within populations.

The public cloud has made IT infrastructure increasingly accessible, influencing some healthcare CIOs and CTOs to try to build an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) in-house versus purchasing a commercial solution. However, a spring 2020 survey indicates that the vast majority of healthcare data platform users purchase their EDWs, citing superior quality, functionality, and security. Meanwhile, homegrown EDW users report high satisfaction with their systems despite common roadblocks including insufficient IT personnel. A deeper dive into survey findings shows which type of organization may be best suited to building or buying an EDW.

With the CMS and ONC March 2020 endorsement of HL7 FHIR R4, FHIR is positioned to grow from a niche application programming interface (API) standard to a common API framework. With broader adoption, FHIR promises to support expanding healthcare interoperability and prepare the industry for complex use cases by addressing significant challenges:1. Engaging consumers.2. Sharing data with modern standards.3. Building a solid foundation for healthcare interoperability.