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The Health Catalyst enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics applications are intentionally built for flexibility, adaptability, and scalability. Unique among industry participants, our platform...
View Article5 Reasons the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine Is a Hot Topic
Editor’s note: This mini lesson represents some of the content presented at Health Catalyst University’s Accelerated Practices (AP) Program. With the purpose of educating health professionals, the AP...
View ArticleLeading Wisely: Better Executive Decision Support
Healthcare leaders are tasked with managing what is arguably the most complex industry on Earth—one where access to the right information at the right time is mission critical. With the broad adoption...
View ArticleLeading Wisely in Healthcare: Why the Next Generation Executive Decision...
As every healthcare leader knows, the industry is experiencing wrenching transformation—so much so, that it’s difficult to identify a single top challenge healthcare organizations are up against....
View ArticleDecision Support: Why the Executive Dashboard Is a Healthcare CEO’s Best Advisor
As she arrives at her office in the morning, Monica Lemieux, CEO of Pennington Health, is worried. The health system she leads is facing unprecedented challenges, which threaten its 118-year legacy....
View ArticleBeyond Healthcare Dashboards: Deeper Decision Support
Dashboards and measures have become commonplace in hospitals because health systems want to measure and track performance. For many health systems, healthcare dashboards are indispensable, particularly...
View ArticleWhy CMOs Need Healthcare Executive Dashboards to Lead High-Performing Systems
Indulal Rughani, MD, has served as the chief medical officer (CMO) of Pennington Health—a nine-hospital health system in the Midwest—for the past five years. He understands his position represents one...
View ArticleHealthcare Decision Support Helps CFOs Achieve Their Top Goal: Timely,...
Skip Kriz has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Pennington Health, a large Midwest health system, for over a decade. Despite his extensive experience, his role seems to get bigger and more...
View ArticleInteractive Healthcare Dashboards Are Gaining Momentum
Interactive decision-support tools, such as healthcare dashboards, have become an essential tool in outcomes improvement. They provide important insights and near real-time data, helping managers and...
View ArticleWhy Healthcare Decision Support Is No Longer Optional for Chief Operating...
During a brief and rare break in her busy schedule, Judy Hayward reflected on how much more challenging her job has become. Growing demands for quality, safety, and cost effectiveness require...
View ArticleHealthcare Decision Support: A Modern Tool for Today’s Chief Nursing Officer
As she took a short morning walk prior to starting her busy daily schedule, Faye Spencer, Pennington Health’s Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), reflected on her long journey as a nurse. When she first...
View ArticleMachine Learning in Healthcare: How it Supports Clinician Decisions—and Why...
Many clinicians view the practice of medicine as an art rather than a science. There’s a craft to extrapolating diagnoses from symptoms, determining which pieces of information are important and which...
View ArticleHow to Apply Machine Learning in Healthcare to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
What if a technology could accurately predict the likelihood of heart failure readmissions? Or the likelihood that a patient with heart failure would not take his medications or would miss his...
View ArticleIntroducing Touchstone: The Next-Generation Healthcare Benchmarking and...
When it comes to healthcare benchmarking today, organizations need to be able to do four things quickly, effectively, and efficiently: Identify where they are underperforming. See where they are...
View ArticleCare Management Analytics: Six Ways Data Drives Program Success
The foundation of successful care management is identifying the right high-risk and rising-risk patients to participate in a care management program. To reliably select the patients most likely to...
View ArticlePrioritizing Healthcare Projects to Optimize ROI
To thrive in today’s improvement-focused healthcare environment and achieve sustainable transformation, healthcare organizations must prioritize improvement projects with analytics-driven processes and...
View ArticleHealthcare Dashboards vs. Scorecards: Use Both to Improve Outcomes
Measuring and sustaining outcomes improvement in healthcare is a top priority for industry leaders. But when it comes to the best tools for the job, healthcare leaders find themselves in a...
View ArticleEffective Healthcare Decision Support for Executives: Three Problems that...
Effective healthcare leadership is more important than ever. In the world of value-based care, strong leaders are vital to managing the increased demands of patients and shrinking budgets. However,...
View ArticleEmergency Department Quality Improvement: Transforming the Delivery of Care
This article is based on a 2018 Healthcare Analytics Summit (HAS 18) presentation given by Linda Hummel, MS, BSN, RN, Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety at Mission Health System and Rick Lee,...
View ArticleICD-10 PCS: Harnessing the Power of Procedure Codes
When the U.S. healthcare system transitioned from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes in 2015, this brought the number of available PCS (Procedure Coding System, a U.S. classification system referring to procedures...
View ArticleHealth Catalyst® Introduces Closed-Loop Analytics™ Services
With provider job dissatisfaction on the rise and the daily battle providers face every day to feel like they are positively impacting patients, the EHR only adds stress. Excessive clicks to perform...
View ArticleWhen the Promise of Prehabilitation Meets the Power of Healthcare Analytics
As the saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” The healthcare industry continues to place more emphasis on preventive care, which can help reduce healthcare costs and improve...
View ArticleHealthcare Data Literacy: A Must-Have for Becoming a Data-Driven Organization
Healthcare Data Literacy Plays a Key Role in Becoming a Data-Driven Healthcare Organization According to an article published by Dalhousie University, data literacy is the ability to collect, manage,...
View ArticleFour Keys to Increase Healthcare Market Share
This report is based on a 2019 Healthcare Analytics Summit presentation given by Holly Burke, Executive Director, at Clinical Innovation and Quality, Pulse Heart Institute, MultiCare Health System, and...
View ArticleA Roadmap for Optimizing Clinical Decision Support
This report is based on a webinar presented on January 16, 2020, by Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, Stanson Health,...
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