Technology

Advances in Healthcare IT are Improving Patient Safety

by Trevor Strome August 31, 2011

IT implementations must focus on the needs of the patient Most quality improvement approaches used in healthcare (including Lean, Six Sigma, and others) consider, if not focus on, the needs of the patient when identifying opportunities for improvement and when defining metrics for evaluating outcomes and sustainability. Importantly, as health information technology (HIT) implementation projects [...]

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Moving Towards Self-Serve Healthcare Analytics and Business Intelligence

by Trevor Strome June 15, 2011

Self-service is commonly identified as a growing trend in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics fields. Many analytics and BI solutions are now starting to tout their self-serve capabilities as the “next generation” in business intelligence and analytics. (At times I may use the terms “business intelligence” and “analytics” interchangeably throughout this article, with the [...]

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Mobile Business Intelligence – Best Practices from Tableau

by Trevor Strome June 10, 2011

Mobile devices are revolutionizing healthcare With the increasing proliferation of mobile devices (such as Apple’s iPad tablets), there is an opportunity to literally bring analytics to the bedside with the use of such devices. Providing fingertip access to healthcare providers and administrators will make information truly available when and where it is needed, whether it [...]

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Healthcare Informatics – Living Up To Expectations?

by Trevor Strome June 6, 2011

Live from St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada I am attending the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) 2011 Annual Meeting in St John’s, Newfoundland. It is an opportunity for Emergency Medicine physicians from around the country to meet and discuss the issues and challenges that face Emergency Departments today. (Although I am not a physician, I [...]

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Healthcare Cyber Security – Too Important to Ignore

by Trevor Strome May 30, 2011

Cyber Security and the need to protect of vital information has recently been in the forefront of the news. Recent examples, including the hacking of Sony’s PlayStation Network and the  RSA security breach demonstrate that even well-protected networks are vulnerable to attacks of ever-increasing sophistication.  I am sure that most people consider their personal health information to [...]

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IBM “Streaming Analytics” allows early detection of brain injury and other health issues

by Trevor Strome November 1, 2010

In the news… Columbia University Medical Center researchers will be adopting IBM “Streaming Analytics” in a project to help detect brain injury and other health issues much more quickly than was previously possible. According to an article on  TMCnet Healthcare Technology, streaming analytics is capable of analyzing large volumes in data in motion. The article [...]

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Why the iPad is Good for Healthcare Analytics

by Trevor Strome April 8, 2010

The Apple iPad is being touted as a possible “game-changer” in mobile computing technology, and one of the industries that analysts expect iPad to have considerable success is healthcare. In fact, many healthcare systems vendors are already developing (or investigating the development of) versions of their software that are iPad compatible. Overcoming Barriers As a [...]

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