Analytics

Context is Everything – Enabling Analytics by Understanding Improvement Goals, Strategy, and Measurement Objectives

by Trevor Strome April 3, 2017






As I mentioned in my previous blog post How To Position Analytics as a Strategic Resource Within Your Organization, context is what frames the various challenges and pressures facing an organization, and describes what and why the organization is striving to improve. Common areas of  innovation and improvement being sought by many organizations include: Quality […]






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How To Position Analytics as a Strategic Resource Within Your Organization

by Trevor Strome March 22, 2017






The challenge: how can organizations leverage available data  and analytics resources in innovative (and revolutionary) ways to achieve breakthrough transformation in quality, performance, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction? Many organizations feel that “leveraging data” means building many reports, and fulfilling a high number of ad hoc data requests, as if the volume of reports & requests […]






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Upcoming NIHI Webinar: Data Analytics Primer for Healthcare Leaders

by Trevor Strome October 18, 2016






Please join me for a webinar I am conducting with the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) on November 2, 2016. Entitled Data Analytics Primer for Healthcare Leaders: Transforming management with (the proper) analytics, this session will provide healthcare leaders with the essential information they need to fully leverage the power of the data within […]






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Healthcare Analytics Update – Week of June 27th 2016

by Trevor Strome June 30, 2016






This has been a busy week in the world of healthcare analytics! I have come across a lot of interesting articles, videos, and other resources this week that I’ll share with you below. I will be making the Analytics Update a weekly feature, so if you have any articles, resources, or news bits that you’d […]






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Upcoming Learning Opportunity – Data Analytics Essentials for Today’s Healthcare Organization

by Trevor Strome January 8, 2016






Join me for four Healthcare Analytics online sessions that will kick-start your analytical productivity in 2016  I am pleased to announce that I will be instructing a series of four one-hour interactive online sessions in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI). Entitled Data Analytics Essentials for Today’s Healthcare Organization, the series will focus on […]






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Celebrating two years since “Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement” was published!

by Trevor Strome September 4, 2015






It’s hard to believe that it will be two years next month since my first book “Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement” was published, in October 2013, by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Since the book was published, it has been the selected textbook for many health analytics and health policy classes at institutions […]






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Learn about Big Data in Healthcare with this HIMSS Virtual Briefing on August 5, 2015

by Trevor Strome July 17, 2015






You’ll Learn About Leveraging Big Data with this HIMSS Virtual Briefing If your healthcare organization is deciding how best to benefit from big data, you’ll be interested in this upcoming virtual briefing from HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society). On August 5, 2015 HIMSS will be hosting a webinar entitled “Big Data, Big Insight: […]






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Four Important Ways That Analytics Transforms Healthcare Decision-Making

by Trevor Strome May 4, 2015






The Challenge – Increasing Need for Actionable Insight. Healthcare transformation efforts require decision makers to use information to understand all aspects of an organization’s performance. In addition to knowing what has happened, decision makers now require insight into what is likely going to happen, what the improvement priorities of the organization should be, and what […]






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Sign up for email updates and you could win a free copy of my book!

by Trevor Strome April 27, 2015






Sign up for email updates before midnight on May 15th, and you could win a free copy of my book Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement, a $75.00 value! Why am I giving away a copy of my popular book Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement? I’ve just started on my next major publishing project, a […]






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Why Nurses Must Understand Analytics and Quality Improvement

by Trevor Strome April 13, 2015






In my role as a healthcare analytics and quality improvement (QI) professional (and, now an Assistant Professor with the local College of Nursing), I find myself regularly in discussions with nursing professionals regarding how analytics and QI impact their roles. A common thread in these discussions revolves around why, how, and where nurses should learn […]






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