Healthcare Analytics Q&A: What Are the “Three V’s” of Big Data?

by Trevor Strome January 20, 2015






Healthcare Analytics “Q&A” Series Every day, I receive emails from readers of HealthcareAnalytics.info asking questions about healthcare analytics topics, trends, and issues. These questions arise out of posts they’ve read on this website or encountered elsewhere. Although I endeavour to answer each question individually, I’ve created this “Question & Answer” series on HealthcareAnalytics.info to provide […]






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Upcoming NIHI Seminar: Advanced Healthcare Performance Measurement

by Trevor Strome January 15, 2015






 Join me on January 29, 2015 for my National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) web seminar entitled “Advanced Healthcare Performance Measurement“. Click here to register. About the Session The complexity of health care demands that a robust approach to measuring quality be followed. Healthcare quality and performance must be defined in terms that are quantifiable—meaning they […]






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Six Ways to Improve the Usefulness of Data Visualizations in Healthcare

by Trevor Strome January 13, 2015






  Improve decision-making with data visualization Data visualization is an important way to communicate information quickly and effectively. In fact, data visualization is one of the key principles that contribute to effective decision-making in healthcare organizations. In recognition of this, many business intelligence (BI) and data analysis software packages provide sophisticated data visualization capabilities. These […]






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Strategic Analytics Framework for Leveraging Data and Health Information Systems

by Trevor Strome January 5, 2015






Healthcare analytics and IT are progressing rapidly Healthcare analytics is a rapidly advancing field. Healthcare organizations (HCOs) along with the analysts, data scientists, and Information Technology (IT) professionals who work in them are faced with myriad choices regarding how best to meet the information and decision-making needs of administrators and, most importantly, clinical staff working […]






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Keeping Security and Privacy Top-Of-Mind when Using Healthcare Data

by Trevor Strome November 17, 2014






Healthcare organizations are always working to improve the quality of their care and the efficiency of their business operations. Data analytics for these clinical quality improvement efforts require access to data for determining process baseline performance, detecting trends and patterns in quality based on key indicators, and simulating potential outcomes of new processes and workflows. […]






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Healthcare Data Analytics Summit – Toronto, December 2014

by Trevor Strome September 29, 2014






The Third National Summit on Healthcare Data Analytics is coming to Toronto, Ontario December 2-3, 2014. I’m honored to be chairing this outstanding event this year, as there is an outstanding lineup of speakers. There are expert speakers attending from across North America and internationally. Several of the timely and important topics include: population health […]






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The HIPAA Basics that Healthcare Analytics Professionals and Data Scientists Must Know

by Trevor Strome September 26, 2014






Healthcare analytics professionals and data scientists access and use healthcare data on a near-constant basis. Whether it is for designing dashboards or building predictive models, the use of sensitive information is a necessity in efforts to leverage analytics to improve healthcare. Also essential, however, is keeping the private health information that we access and use […]






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Big Data and Data Science – A Statistician’s View

by Trevor Strome September 12, 2014






While the various methods and technologies associated with Big Data and Data Science offer exciting potential to dramatically improve the business and clinical insight available to healthcare professionals (both clinical and administrative), there is no shortage of hype associated with them either. Oftentimes what is missing from the discussion is an objective look at the […]






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The Five-Point “Systems Check” for Analytical Healthcare Organizations

by Trevor Strome September 10, 2014






Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) are undergoing an incredible amount of change. Whether addressing regulatory changes, financial pressures, or quality and performance issues, HCOs require insight into their business and clinical operations to identify where problems exist, and to evaluate efforts to address those problems. In my recent article on SearchHealthIT.com, I share a few common capability-maturity […]






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Analytics Play an Essential Role in Improving Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Value

by Trevor Strome September 9, 2014






This posting is an extracted and abridged selection from my book “Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement”, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., and available at Amazon.com in hardcover and e-reader formats. Quality from the patient’s perspective From the patient’s perspective, healthcare is often thought of in terms of quality and expressed in questions such […]






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