July 2011

Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare

by Trevor Strome July 29, 2011






Healthcare providers are faced with an increasing volume of data which they need to quickly analyze to make critical decisions regarding a patient’s care. Similarly, healthcare organizations struggle to improve operational efficiency using outdated analytic approaches (often consisting of nothing more than stacks of data in tabular format). Despite enormous advances in computing power, analytics […]






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How To Prevent Analytics From Contributing to Information Overload

by Trevor Strome July 25, 2011






Information overload in clinical settings The term information overload refers to the “difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information” (see citation from Wikipedia). An article by Sean M. Thomas, MD, and David J. Rosenman, MD in The Hospitalist suggest that […]






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Get On With The Innovating – Put Analytics Into Action!

by Trevor Strome July 22, 2011






Analytics – Much More than Reporting! The field of healthcare analytics may not be as awe-inspiring as the space program (see postscript below to see the context of this comment), but it is an exciting field to be in at this time! The volumes of data now available, along with the myriad tools available to […]






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Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit – October 12, 2011

by Trevor Strome July 15, 2011






I am excited to announce that I’ll be featured as a speaker at the Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit on October 12, 2011, in Minneapolis. This excellent conference focuses on the use of business intelligence and analytics applications in Healthcare. The event will highlight strategies to better manage ever-increasing volumes of healthcare data to achieve improved […]






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Analytics Lessons Learned – How “Fresh” Is Your Data?

by Trevor Strome July 14, 2011






About Lessons Learned Even seasoned analytics professionals still learn on the job – in fact, it’s practically written into the job description. As can be expected, some of the hardest lessons come from situations where we “should have known better”. This section of the HealthcareAnalytics.info website is where we can learn from our successes, failures, […]






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