Webinar: Leveraging Healthcare Data and Technologies to Improve Patient Outcomes

by Trevor Strome July 14, 2015






Please join me on Wednesday, July 15th for a webinar entitled “Leveraging Healthcare Data and Technologies to Improve Patient Outcomes.” Overview: Health information technology is changing how healthcare is delivered, and how people are managing their own health. Systems ranging from consumer health smartphone apps to enterprise-wide electronic medical records (EMRs) are generating incredible volumes […]






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IHT2 Answers Important Cloud Questions for Healthcare Leaders

by Trevor Strome May 6, 2015






My colleagues at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (IHT2) have recently released an important special report. Entitled Answers to Healthcare Leaders’ Cloud Questions, the report address many of the concerns and issues that healthcare executives might have regarding the use of “the cloud”. The report notes that healthcare is relatively slow adopting cloud-based solutions […]






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NIHI Announces Their New Blog! Join in the Health Informatics Conversation.

by Trevor Strome May 5, 2015






My good friends at the National Institutes of Health Informatics (Twitter: @NIHI_info) have just launched their new blog! The NIHI blog address is: https://nihicanada.wordpress.com/ NIHI is a leading source of health informatics education, resources, and innovation. I’m proud to have conducted several web-based healthcare analytics workshops in conjunction with NIHI. My workshop topics have including developing […]






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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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New Value-Based Reimbursement Report Released by IHT2

by Trevor Strome April 28, 2015






The Institute for Health Technology Transformation, or IHT2, is releasing a new report today entitled “12 Things You Need to Know About Value-Based Reimbursement: Building an Infrastructure for Financial Risk.” The IHT2 states that “the report has drawn insights from industry analysts, leading healthcare providers, and healthcare IT leaders to describe the strategies some large healthcare systems […]






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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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The Three Key Drivers of “Big Data” in Healthcare – Is Your Healthcare Organization Ready?

by Trevor Strome February 3, 2015






As I mention in my Q&A post “What Are the Three V’s of Big Data”, Big Data is a significant topic of conversation in Health Information Technology (HIT) because Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) need to determine how Big Data figures into their operations. The previous post cites a definition of Big Data that states, essentially, that […]






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A Primer on Healthcare Cloud Computing

by Trevor Strome January 29, 2015






The following article is a brief summary of an article that I wrote for SearchHealthIT. The National Institute for Standards and Technology defines cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and […]






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What You Need to Know About Healthcare Analytics on the Cloud

by Trevor Strome January 22, 2015






This is a summary of a recent article I wrote for SearchHealthIT.com.  The promise of cloud-based analytics Because of the computing power, data storage, and network bandwidth that some modern analytics and simulations require, the healthcare industry requires cost-effective and scalable solutions. Cloud-based services offer a promising option. Many of the reporting and analytics tools used […]






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